NobleMetalWorks
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I am currently working my way through the MIT Chemistry courses that are offered free of charge, on the MIT website here:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/
However, I just read a news article about Harvard and MIT making these courses available to earn a degree. Here is the news article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589
I am going to find out more information on this, although you do not obtain a degree for completing the course, this is what was said in the article:
For me this sounds like a wonderful idea, I am more interested in the education than the degree.
I thought I would post this here for anyone else that is interested.
Scott
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/
However, I just read a news article about Harvard and MIT making these courses available to earn a degree. Here is the news article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed a $60m (£38m) alliance to launch edX, a platform to deliver courses online - with the modest ambition of "revolutionising education around the world".
I am going to find out more information on this, although you do not obtain a degree for completing the course, this is what was said in the article:
The online courses are promised to be as rigorous as anything else from MIT or Harvard - but successful students will get a "certificate of mastery" and not a degree or any formal university credit. It's being set at arm's length from what's on offer for the paying customers.
For me this sounds like a wonderful idea, I am more interested in the education than the degree.
I thought I would post this here for anyone else that is interested.
Scott