Harvard and MIT have initiated a joint venture called edX to provide online courses by Fall 2012. Courses will be taught by Harvard and MIT faculty and populated with courses already developed by the two universities in their open access curriculum. So what's new? The edX initiative will also be used as a test bed for research about effectiveness of online technologies. To read more, go to http://www.edxonline.org/release.html
Another group of 12 U.S. universities including, Univ. of Virgina, Univ. of Washington, Univ. of Illinois, Duke Univ., Univ. of California - San Francisco, Rice Univ., Johns Hopkins Univ., Georgia Institute of Technology, and the California Institute of Technology and other universities from abroad have joined Coursera to offer open access online courses. Go to https://www.coursera.org/ to read more and examine open access courses. Why will universities offer open access courses? The reasons are varied -- some want to increase recognition of their brand, others want to offer education to people in the global community without the chance of attending a university, and others...well we will see.
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