A million dollar grant is helping bring Harvard and MIT courses to Bunker Hill and MassBay community colleges, blending e-learning with on-site instructors in a bid to boost the state’s computer science expertise.
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The new venture will engage the entire world in an expensive and ambitious experiment. EdX is now preparing a bigger experiment that is expected to test the flipped-classroom model at a community college, combining MOOC content with campus instruction. Two-year colleges have struggled with insufficient funds and large demand; they also have "trouble attracting top talent and teachers," says Anant Agarwal, who taught the circuits class and is president of edX. The question is how MOOC's might help community colleges, and how the courses would have to change to work for their students. Via Mark Smithers Delete the scoop?
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