MIT Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students Who Take Its Online Courses – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
How, do you make money on FREE online courses? Charge for assessment and certification. In a brilliant move to maximize its brand, MIT will be adding to its library of FREE online courses and by the spring of 2012 will start charging for assessment and certification. To ensure that that they don’t water down their brand, MIT will be offering the certification under another name. Regardless of what they call it everyone will know it is still MIT.
A person now has three ways to get and MIT education:
- Face2Face – assuming you have the money and the entrance requirements
- Online + Certification – do all the work online, pass the assessements and earn a certificate
- Online – use all the online content to learn what you want to learn – for FREE
This move by MIT is great for students because it gives them even more options to learn from the best. Hopefully it will also push the academy to step up and start emulating the leaders in the Ivy League.
