Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business?

One of the things I staunchly believe is that the cost of education will drop sharply. It has to. The current path of graduating student loan zombies is simply not sustainable.Eventually, online education will be both inexpensive and accredited. In turn that will drive down costs at brick-and-mortar colleges.MOOCS Pick Up Steam The Financial Times reports Teaching Revolution Gathers Pace.

Hey, there! Heard about human economy? The corporate world is shifting from hiring brains to hiring hearts, thus replacing what we called the knowledge economy with human economy! I read this captivating piece from Harvard Business Review and a Gallup study appears to second this view. Meanwhile, right at our backyards, farmers’ protest is the hottest topic. JNU Economist Himanshu looks deeper into the issue in a free-wheeling interview with Scroll where he suggests what we see today is the result of accumulated negligence of the hinterland.

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.

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Bleary-eyed from the 16+ hour flight from Asia, I checked my phone last night once the plane landed to find that riots have broken out across the Land of the Free. It was enough to wake me from my jet lag. All the televisions in the airport terminal were showing footage of the chaos along with occasional interviews with some of the protestors.

On February 19 Doug McMillon, President & CEO, Walmart, announced higher pay in a Letter to Associates.

REUTERS/Brian SnyderThe joy of a Harvard University acceptance came crashing down for at least 10 prospective members of the Class of 2021, The Harvard Crimson reported.