MIT announced in The Tech magazine their plans to build a new online learning platform. This innovation should be of special interest to workforce professionals as it expands the reach of Open Courseware education.
The tools help enrich the classroom and lab experiences for students on campus by expediting knowledge transfer, according to MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif. Non-students will have options to earn certificates, some free of charge and some with a modest fee. “If we’re going to do the best job we can for our campus, why don’t we make that available to the whole world? So that everybody can have access to these learning tools, and if you can handle the learning of the MIT-quality of the material, you should just go after it and try,” says Reif.