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MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.

The first MITx course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), was launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012.

Link to MITx introduction video Watch intro video

MITx courses will be offered on an online learning platform that:

  • organizes and presents course material to enable students to learn worldwide
  • features interactive instruction, online laboratories and student-to-student and student-to-professor communication
  • allows for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allows students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn certificates awarded by MITx
  • operates on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions, such as universities and K-12 school systems.

Press & links: 6.002x Press Release, 6.002x FAQ, MITx overview, Boston Globe, New York Times, MIT Press Release, MITx FAQ, OpenCourseWare

Announcement

On May 2, it was announced that Harvard University will join MIT as a partner in edX. MITx, which offers online versions of MIT courses, will be a core offering of edX, as will Harvardx, a set of course offerings from Harvard.

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Spring 2012 Course offering

Circuits and Electronics

6.002x

More information & Enroll

Taught by Anant Agarwal, with Gerald Sussman and Piotr Mitros, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics) is an on-line adaption of 6.002, MIT’s first undergraduate analog design course. This prototype course is running, free of charge, for students worldwide from March 5, 2012 through June 8, 2012. Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the material and earn a certificate from MITx.

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