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MIT digital learning dean quits as edX sale backlash grows

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Written by: Paul Basken Published by: Times Higher Education MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The dean of digital learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resigned as a faculty revolt against the sale of non-profit online course platform edX to for-profit competitor 2U grows, Times Higher Education can reveal. Krishna Rajagopal, who has announced his … [Read more...] about MIT digital learning dean quits as edX sale backlash grows

Harvard, MIT Part of $800 Million Deal to Push Access to Online Education

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Written by: Melissa Korn Published by: The Wall Street Journal  MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Education-technology company 2U Inc., which runs graduate programs for dozens of top universities, is buying web-based course provider edX, a nonprofit founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for $800 million. The deal combines two major … [Read more...] about Harvard, MIT Part of $800 Million Deal to Push Access to Online Education

Moocs struggle to lift rock-bottom completion rates

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Content written Seb Murray and published by Financial Times.  MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Much of the early enthusiasm for massive open online courses, or Moocs, focused on how they could disrupt and democratise education — opening elite universities’ courses to the masses. They have long faced one stumbling block, however: barely anyone who starts a Mooc completes … [Read more...] about Moocs struggle to lift rock-bottom completion rates

Connecting Data Science to ‘Almost Every Domain of Inquiry’

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Content written by Greg Toppo and published by Inside Higher Ed.  MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: If you don’t believe that big data and artificial intelligence are here to stay, just ask Alexa: “What academic disciplines this fall are driving two major research universities to reorganize?” The University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of … [Read more...] about Connecting Data Science to ‘Almost Every Domain of Inquiry’