At the end of May, Harvard and MIT jointly released a dataset containing statistics about their online courses in the Academic Year of 2013. This Person-Course De-Identified dataset contains 641,138 events, chronicling 476,532 students who have taken up to 13 unique courses from a variety of topics: However, this assortment of courses is not a substitution for a typical college education, as the vast majority of students only take one class.
Published July 10, 2014 Rebecca Griffiths, Matthew Chingos, Christine Mulhern, Richard Spies Online technologies show promise for educating more people in innovative ways that can lower costs for universities and colleges, but how can higher education leaders move forward, confident in their choices about how best to integrate these technologies on their campuses?
