Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business?

I received an interesting email from "James in Arizona" today. James offers this comment on online education. Greetings from Arizona, Mish, I ran across this website while exploring various online options for my daughter (in high school, but she’s very computer savvy, so I’m looking for options to expand her interests/basis). It is EdX, an online education group started by Harvard and MIT, but other universities are joining.

NEW DELHI: Training and skills development firm NIIT has partnered with US-based edX to offer online courses from leading international universities including MIT and Berkeley to about 5 lakh people over the next three years. "Through this partnership, NIIT and edX aim to create high-impact learning experiences for learners by offering a blended learning MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) model," NIIT Chairman Rajendra Pawar told reporters here.

What does is take to be as innovative as legends like Steve Jobs or Larry Page? According to Hal Gregersen, the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, "all of us were quite good at [innovation] when we were 4 years old." The problem is, without cultivation, these skills are often lost by adulthood.

Allison Joyce/Getty ImagesBeing a successful entrepreneur means you have to wear a lot of hats, especially when your company is just starting out and you don't have enough employees to cover all the areas you need.

Flickr / VFS Digital DesignWhether you want to excel at work or just adopt a new hobby, you'll need to learn some new skills to reach your goals. Learning new skills can keep your mind sharp as you age and open you up to a whole new world of possibilities.

NEW DELHI: Hiring a driver can be a hitand-miss affair, sometimes literally so. However, the National Career Service (NCS) unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week aims to turn the employment of such workers — domestic help, caretakers, plumbers, electricians — into less of a gamble on both sides. More importantly, it could evolve into one of the world's biggest employment portals if the government is able to put the ambitious thinking behind the plan into effect.

A few weeks after Wharton announced that it would be offering a substantial part of its core MBA classes online, Harvard business school is developing online courses of its own, according to a report

Online courses, and massively open online courses (MOOCs) in particular, are quickly moving from a novelty to the mainstream. Leading colleges, graduate schools, and companies are investing significant resources into free education.