New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Bombay (IIT Bombay) is joining edX, the massive open online courses (MOOCs) platform created by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Through this collaboration, IIT Bombay plans to make available to some of its regular courses to students across India and the world in the form of open online courses.
IIT Bombay thus joins a list of some of the best colleges and universities across the globe such as Berkeley, Australian National University, McGill, Cornell University, University of Honk Kong, Kyoto University, Boston University.
IITBombayX plans to offer some of the popular and important courses of edX to global participants. Basically to begin with, the programs offered would be the online engineering courses which the IITs have been offering on the ICT platform since 2006 – called the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The NPTEL would now be offered on MOOCs platform.
“Collaboration with edX, and with partner universities, will help us better understand and solve issues in scaling up quality education using technology. Enhancements to the open source edX platform will now add to key areas of our research focus. This will enable technology to be deployed in other areas of education, such as vocational training, school education, and faculty empowerment,” said the institute to a leading daily.