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Posted on 10/12/2015 2:34:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has offered free online courses for the last four years with one major downside: They didn't count toward a degree. That's about to change.
In a pilot project announced Wednesday, students will be able to take a semester of free online courses in one of MIT's graduate programs and then, if they pay a "modest fee" of about $1,500 and pass an exam, they will earn a MicroMaster's credential, the school said.
The new credential represents half of the university's one-year master's degree program in supply chain management....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Time for those interested to act like beavers.
I wonder if i can just pay the fee and take the exam....
I enjoyed the Physics class by the old Dutch guy.
Discover the unified field theory in your spare time at home.
Finally I can get the half a degree in supply chain management I’ve dreamed of from my youth!
Glad you posted this development.
Great offerings at MIT’s open course ware site:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
ecornell offers educational certification as well.
These kinds of programs came be very helpful for adult learners who don’t have a degree, or are looking to change careers.
Very good disruption of traditional University over priced monopoly.
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One would have to live online to get enough credits to graduate.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet, extra to APoD.
Maybe when I retire, I can take those classes and claim I have a degree from MIT. :-)
Uh, what is supply chain management? Is that learning how to manage a chain or is it supplying chains to management? Maybe it's management of supplies, which is basically a stock boy.
Why does his forehead look like that?
I’ve taken a few of the free Hillsdale college courses on the constitution and federalist papers.
Yes, I have watched many of those.
He’s a Cardassian. Or rather, he played a Cardassian on TV, much as he played the villain in “Dirty Harry”.
This must be what the “Draw the Maxwell Equations” ad was for on my matchbook.
How many millions of Americans have a free smartphone because they live in a low-income household? For any who have a data plan, they can access Google and a substantial fraction of all the knowledge of humanity. And yet, it doesn’t matter. The vast majority don’t care. They prefer ignorance. Our wise progressive overlords continue to insist that the answer to poverty and the lack of work ethic, not to mention the dependency mentality is more education. Yet, every ObamaPhone owner has the world at their fingertips and it just does not matter.
MIT Online MicroMaster’s credential. COOL!
It would be great if red states would take a leadership position and change job requirements for state jobs which require degrees to also have an online free equivalent certification. This would open the door to other employers doing the same thing, and would bring down the costs of education as universities would start to have true competition in online programs.
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