Harvard and MIT launch edX to offer free online classes

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Harvard and MIT launch edX to offer free online classes
by James O'Toole
CNNmoney May 02
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             Harvard and MIT announced a partnership last Wednesday to offer free online coursed to students around the world. The project, called edX, will be run by a non-profit organization controlled by the two schools. Many other universities had also provided free online courses and educational videos in competition and cooperation with the others. As the competition in the society and education grows faster and harsher everyday, the true knowledge that we can learn in classes become more important and valuable than what degrees and titles we can get from 4 years of college. As two of the Ivy League and world's most famous universities, Harvard and MIT did the right thing to share their education resources and opportunity with students all around the world. Organizations and individuals should be encouraged to use the power of Internet as a rightful tool to share and develop the system of learning and knowledge. With the technology of the Internet, people had made many remarkable steps on society development, like data sharing and storing. The Internet should benefits people and expand their view to the world. However, it's as easy to get lost as it's in a wild forest. To prevent the waste of value and time, one way is to organizes and units the data in the same categories. Projects like edX certainly can help students to reach the sources directly. University should change it's system by transferring information and systems to the website and mobile because compare to the Internet, the campuses are limited by the time and space. Education can only be productive and improved by combining the traditions with the future technologies.