edX →
Free Harvard-MIT education for the curious.
MIT and Harvard are each pouring $30 million into a nonprofit partnership edX, which they hope will make the top-notch faculties and courses of their schools available for free to millions of people around the world — free for anyone with an Internet connection.
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At the core of this program is a belief that the excellence of the education available at MIT and Harvard should be available — in an online format — to anyone who has the commitment and desire to make it through an online course. It’s a reminder that these schools aren’t just institutions with long, venerable histories, but also collections of living people — people whose values and ideas shape how these universities exist in the world today.
