EdX: The Future of Online Education is Now

This very early stage is for something so novel, so new, so different ... is for many faculty and students at MIT very exciting, at the same time very scary because it's something new, is different, it's potentially disruptive. Harvard and MIT recognize the incredible effect that technology is having on education today. It's opening new vistas in education for the world, for our campuses. All that education for students around the world will be the next big thing in education. This is the single biggest change in education since the printing press. We plan to make available courses and educational materials to anyone who has an internet connection. Technology can strengthen education, both for our on campus students as well as for those around the world. Our goal is to educate a billion people around the world. I see technology-enabled education to really democratize learning. It's really transforming the way we see material access material and interact with the course. It really tailors the experience personally to whoever is trying to be a part of it, which is huge, I think. This is not to be construed as "MIT Lite" or "Harvard Lite." The content is the same content. This will make tremendous resources available to people everywhere. We expect to transform learning in the classroom along with learning online. Combining forces from Harvard and MIT, we can do amazing projects that will further enrich how to develop the online learning environment, and how to develop the content in the right way for everyone on campus and world wide.