Idea Bank: Global implications of edX

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Expanding the reach of education will place a greater emphasis on the need for leaders. Making skills and knowledge more widely accessible will make the ability to effectively channel that knowledge towards applications that benefit humanity will be...

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I love how online texts, demos and videos are increasingly available to students. But I believe that MIT courses should never totally be online. Online material offers incredibly valuable supplements, but an MIT education would simply not be an MIT...

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MIT policy should be changed to make all intellectual property developed by anyone at MIT the sole property of the inventor(s). The primary reason for this is that the current process slows down innovation tremendously. A secondary reason is that...

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I can imaging taking one professor, placing him in a community college with 20 (excellent) students and giving him full access to the online courses. In 4 years and with a few bucks for the professor’s time and for class projects, you could have 20...

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MIT is the premiere science, technology and engineering university in the US and the world. Whatever we do with online education, we need to be the world leader in making it as accessible and inclusive to the widest possible audience. This means...

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