IIT Bombay signs MoU with edX

Deal to offer quality education online through massive open online courses

The Indian Institute of Bombay will make available to some of its regular courses to lakhs of students across the nation, and to others globally. 

 

IIT-B today said it has entered  into a partnership  with edX, a not-for-profit company set up by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard to launch Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).  IIT-B thus joins a consortium of top global universities.

 

Using Information and Communication Technologies, IIT Bombay has developed  and deployed training programs, engaging thousands of participants at a time, through national mission projects sponsored by MHRD. 

 

"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," the institute said.