Creating Significant Learning Environments
http://youtu.be/SA6ELdIRkRU
EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learners and to improve education for everyone.
When you take into account Google’s recent purchase of Motorola and the fact that combined use of Android smartphones exceeds that of the iPhone this is a wise move by MIT. The more competition the is for Apple and the iOS the better it is for everyone.
M.I.T. is naming a two time college drop out as the director of the world’s top computer science lab. Why?
“The choice is radical, but brilliant,” said Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a University of California laboratory that pursues a similar research agenda to the Media Laboratory. “He can position the lab at the edge of change and propel it for a decade.”
Looks like being on the edge of change is a priority for M.I.T.
