Boston: Wellesley College Boston announced on Tuesday to start free online classes through the nonprofit venture from next fall.
The Women’s Liberal Arts College outside Boston will offer free online classes through edX to educate people around the world, particularly women.
Wellesley Provost and Dean Andy Shennan said that there might be women who may not have access to a university education but have access to a computer. Those could be benefited by this method of delivering education, he added.
EdX was funded and launched by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) jointly earlier this year to create a new online-learning experience for interactive study with a huge variety of online courses.
Wellesley will also add four liberal arts courses in online resource.
Wellesley has already exchanged the program with other colleges, so it won’t be the first time male students can take a course at the college.
Edx students cannot currently earn college credits or degrees through the online classes but edX president and an MIT professor Anant Agarwal said that it was up to participating schools to decide whether to grant credits or not.
He said that the University of Texas which joined edX in October was planning to offer college credits.
Current edX students come from nearly 200 countries and more than 300,000 students signed up for fall courses including classes from the Universities of California and Berkeley.
Harvard and MIT will also use the edX platform to research how students learn and how technology influences the process.
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