Dive Summary:
- Harvard University and MIT planned to announce Tuesday that Wellesley College would become the latest school to partner with their edX program to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs), The Boston Globe reports.
- Wellesley will bolster edX's library of humanities courses with four new offerings (yet to be named) and provide a case study in how to preserve the small-class culture on a large scale.
- Other edX participants include the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas.
From the article:
"... Anant Agarwal, president of edX and a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the addition of Wellesley College continues the group’s forays into new territory. Last month, edX announced it had teamed up with Bunker Hill and MassBay community colleges to offer online courses in computer science. ..."