Duflo, Lander, Lewin to lead spring-semester MITx courses
MIT professors Esther Duflo, Eric Lander and Walter Lewin will lead three new MITx courses this spring, joining three existing MITx courses that will be offered again this semester. The new MITx courses were announced recently by edX, the free online-education platform created last May by MIT and Harvard University. EdX also said that courses on its platform have now attracted more than 600,000 registrants from around the world. In October, edX expanded to include a new partner, the University of California at Berkeley; since then, the University of Texas System, Georgetown University and Wellesley College have joined the edX platform.This spring, there will be 15 new courses on edX — including the first offerings in the humanities and social sciences — from MITx, HarvardX and BerkeleyX, in addition to reprises of 10 existing courses from these three universities. MITx’s new courses this semester are 7.00x (Introduction to Biology: “The...