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<h1> <i>MITx</i> Advances MIT’s Vision for Online Learning</h1>
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<p> Education has entered an era of rapid, exciting,
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technology-enabled change. At MIT, we welcome the opportunity to
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harness the power of on-line technology for our students and for the
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world. On December 19, 2011, we announced <i>MITx</i>, an initiative to
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offer exciting, challenging and enriching courses to anyone,
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anywhere, who has the motivation and ability to engage MIT’s
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educational content.</p>
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<p> Ten years ago, MIT
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launched <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm">OpenCourseWare</a>,
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which places online the course materials for substantially the entire
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MIT curriculum, and was the genesis of today’s worldwide
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movement in free, open educational resources. <i>MITx</i> is the next step
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in opening MIT’s educational doors to the world. Through OCW and
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<i>MITx</i>, MIT invites the world to join it in the passion, hard work and
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thrill of learning and discovery.</p>
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<h2><i>MITx</i> will e-publish interactive online courses that:</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Empower students to learn at their own pace;</li>
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<li>Offer online laboratories where students can experiment and apply their learning;</li>
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<li>Connect students to each other in online discussion groups and wiki-based collaborative learning; </li>
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<li>Challenge learners with MIT-rigor course materials; and</li>
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<li>Assess individual student learning as the student progresses through the course.</li>
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</ul>
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<p> <i>MITx</i> students who demonstrate their mastery of a subject can earn
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a certificate of completion awarded by <i>MITx</i>.</p>
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<p> <i>MITx</i> courses will be available to the world through an Internet
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platform that MIT will make freely available. MIT hopes that other
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educational institutions, anywhere in the world, will adapt and use
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the platform to publish their own educational content online for the
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benefit of learners. Because the platform will be open-source and
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scalable, adopters and users can continuously improve it, for the
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benefit of everyone.</p>
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<h2> Why Is MIT Creating <i>MITx</i>?</h2>
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<p> Excellence in teaching and learning. MIT must always provide its
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students the very best teaching and learning tools possible. MIT
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began experimenting with online technologies in its educational
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programs long before we launched OCW in 2001. We have only increased
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our emphasis in recent years, as several MIT committees have studied
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how MIT might enhance the learning experience of its students and
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expand its impact worldwide through new online offerings.</p>
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<p> These efforts, combined with those of numerous individual MIT
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faculty members, confirmed MIT’s conviction that digital
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technologies enrich learning. Many other innovative institutions and
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enterprises believe the same and are bringing creative online
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offerings forward. Having brain-stormed, investigated and studied,
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we were ready to act and eager to start. We announced our <i>MITx</i>
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aspiration to capture and encourage the energy of our faculty in
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creating new online teaching and learning tools. </p>
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<p> Once up and running, <i>MITx</i> will be a laboratory for online
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learning. Whether <i>MITx</i> learners are MIT’s on-campus students,
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university students elsewhere, or independent learners, <i>MITx</i> will help
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us understand how online learning occurs and how virtual communities
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of learners assemble -- information that in turn will allow us to
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improve both <i>MITx</i> and our on-campus teaching. </p>
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<p> Access to higher education. <i>MITx</i> will help shatter barriers to
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education. The constraints of MIT’s physical campus allow us to
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admit less than 10 percent of our undergraduate applicants. We teach
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on-campus only a tiny fraction of the people in the world with the
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ability and motivation to learn MIT content. Online technology
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provides a new and different portal into MIT-quality education.
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Through <i>MITx</i>, MIT educational content can reach, augment, and enrich
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the education and livelihood of many learners who cannot attend
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MIT. </p>
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<p> <i>MITx</i> does not provide a full MIT education. Our residential
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campus is the heart of MIT’s knowledge creation and
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dissemination. MIT students enjoy a comprehensive curriculum and
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distinct educational environment. Without MIT, there would be no
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<i>MITx</i>. </p>
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<p> Advancing the public good. <i>MITx</i> is an opportunity to help
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preserve and expand higher education as a public good. Historically,
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the investment of public and private assets in enormous amounts has
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produced the public benefits of knowledge creation and dissemination,
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leading to capable citizens, innovation, job creation, economic
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development, and broader welfare.</p>
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<p> Today, as computation and Internet technologies enable higher
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education to migrate online, MIT sees the opportunity to democratize
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education with unprecedented efficiency and scalability. We possess a
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strong desire and feel a compelling obligation to offer a
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not-for-profit, mission-driven, open-technology approach to online
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learning. <i>MITx</i> is our contribution. </p>
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