- MIT and Harvard, two of the World’s Top Universities, join hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.
- An initiative called edX, an online learning system which allows students to acquire knowledge across various course from a distance, has been initiated.
- Harvard and MIT each committed $30 million to the project, which will be overseen by a not-for-profit group based in Cambridge.
- Anant Agarwal, who led the development of MITx and directed MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, will be edX's first president.
