96 lines
4.4 KiB
HTML
96 lines
4.4 KiB
HTML
<%inherit file="marketing.html" />
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<%block name="header_class">home</%block>
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<section class="index-content">
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<section class="about">
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<section class="intro">
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<section class="intro-text">
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<p><em>MITx</em> 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.</p>
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<p>The first <em>MITx</em> course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), will be launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012.</p>
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</section>
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<section class="intro-video">
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<a rel="leanModal" href="#video-overlay"><img src="/static/images/video-image.png" alt="" /><span> Watch intro video</span></a>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section class="features">
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<h2><em>MIT<span>x</span></em> courses will be offered on an online learning platform that:</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>organizes and presents course material to enable students to learn worldwide</li>
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<li>features interactive instruction, online laboratories and student-to-student and student-to-professor communication</li>
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<li>allows for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allows students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn certificates awarded by <em>MITx</em></li>
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<li>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.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><strong>Press & links:</strong> <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/12/19/mit_to_launch_online_only_graded_courses_free_to_all/?page=full" target="_blank">Boston Globe</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/education/mit-expands-free-online-courses-offering-certificates.html?_r=3&hpw=" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html" target="_blank">MIT Press Release</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-faq-1219" target="_blank"><em>MITx</em> FAQ</a></p>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section class="course">
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<hgroup>
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<h1>Spring 2012 Course offering</h1>
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<h2>Circuits and Electronics</h2>
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<h3>6.002x</h3>
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</hgroup>
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<p>
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<a href="http://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/" class="more-info">More information <span>&</span> Enroll</a>
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</p>
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<p>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 will run, free of charge, for students worldwide from March 1, 2012 through June 8, 2012. Students will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the material and earn a certificate from <em>MITx</em>.</p>
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</section>
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</section>
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<div id="video-overlay" class="leanModal_box">
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p2Q6BrNhdh8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
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<script>
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$(function() {
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// TODO: Clean up as per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/169506/obtain-form-input-fields-using-jquery
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/* Handles when the user hits 'enroll'. Grabs form data. Does AJAX.
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Either shows error, or shows success. */
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$('#create_account_button').click(function() {
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var submit_data={};
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$.each($("[id^=ca_]"), function(index,value){
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submit_data[value.name]=value.value;
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});
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$.each($("[id^=cb_]"), function(index,value){
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submit_data[value.name]=value.checked;
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});
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postJSON('/create_account',
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submit_data,
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function(json) {
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if(json.success) {
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$('#enroll').html(json.value);
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} else {
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$('#enroll_error').html(json.value);
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}
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}
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);
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});
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/* Activate stupid spinner drop-downs in enrollment form */
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var spinner_array=$("[id^=spinner_]");
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spinner_array.each(function(i) {
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var s=spinner_array[i];
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$("#"+s.id).click(function(){
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$("#sregion"+s.id.substring(7)).toggle();
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});
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})
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/*$("sregion"+$("[id^=spinner_]")[1].id.substring(7)) */
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});
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</script>
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