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An EdTech Company Bought edX from Harvard and MIT for $800 Million. Its Stock Price Has Plummeted Since.
2U Inc., the education technology firm that bought edX from Harvard and MIT for $800 million in 2021, has seen the price of its shares plummet by more than 86 percent and cut 20 percent of its budgeted personnel costs since the sale was announced.
Harvard Announces 'Data Science Ready' Course, First on New Harvard Online Platform
Harvard will launch its “Harvard Online” program this coming January, beginning with a four-week long course called “Data Science Ready.”
Harvard's LabXChange Provides Platform for Remote Scientific Learning During Pandemic
As schools around the country transition to virtual learning, LabXChange — a new scientific learning platform built by Harvard — allows STEM students the opportunity to mimic a science classroom and lab experience.
Harvard to Caption Online Video Content Following Lawsuit Settlement
Harvard reached a settlement with the National Association of the Deaf Wednesday in a 2015 lawsuit alleging that the University failed to adequately close caption its publicly accessible online video and audio content.
Harvard Introduces Digital Accessibility Policy Amidst Lawsuit
Harvard is implementing a digital accessibility policy intended to make its websites and web-based applications more accessible to those with disabilities, the University announced Thursday.
Lawsuit Alleging Illegality of Harvard’s Failure to Caption Online Content Moves Forward in Federal Court
After years of motions and hearings in a 2015 lawsuit against Harvard alleging the school failed to closed caption its public online content and provided inaccurate closed captions where they did exist will move forward in federal court.
Medical School Launches Opioid Online Learning Course for Educators
Harvard Medical School faculty and staff collaborated with the American Federation of Teachers to release an online course earlier this month that aims to educate the union's more than 1.7 million affiliates on the opioid crisis.
Extension School and MIT Develop New 'MicroMasters' Initiative
Huntington D. Lambert, dean of the Division of Continuing Education and Extension School, hailed the new program as a great addition to the School’s existing offerings.
Under Bacow, Possibilities for Growth in DCE and edX
University President-elect Lawrence S. Bacow said he is interested in creating more opportunities for underresourced communities to access Harvard and its teaching at a press conference on Sunday.
School of Design To Offer Free Online Course
A new online course from the GSD will offer students the opportunity to study the fundamentals of architecture from Harvard professors for free.
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bol to Step Down at End of Summer
Bol’s decision comes after a five year tenure in the job; he was the first person to hold the position, which administrators debuted in 2013.
EdX Courses Take Less Time Than On-Campus Ones, Report Says
Students using Harvard and MIT’s edX courses take significantly less time to complete the online programs than students enrolled in the equivalent on-campus classes do, a wide-ranging report on the virtual education platform found.
Spooky Shakespeare HarvardX Course Debuts on Halloween
A new massive open online course will debut on HarvardX Monday, but with a special Halloween twist: the course is titled “Hamlet’s Ghost.”
CS50 Moves Away from Traditional Lectures, Toward Virtual Reality
Students enrolled in CS50 this fall will only be asked to attend two lectures in person, among other changes announced for the popular course.
HarvardX to Offer New Premium Online Courses
Starting in September, the paid program, HarvardXPlus, will offer four eight-week courses, a departure from HarvardX’s current online course offerings, which are open to auditors for free.
EdX Inaugurates Financial Aid Program
The virtual education platform co-founded by Harvard and MIT now allows financially disadvantaged students to receive a 90-percent discount on course certificates.
Panel Demonstrates Divinity School’s New edX Course
Professors of the Divinity School’s new edX Scriptures course shared an array of teaching strategies and resources from each of the six course modules at an introductory panel in Andover Hall on Tuesday.
Improving Religious Literacy
A person who has intimately interacted with the holy text of a religion and explored the culture that accompanies it is not apt to make gross generalizations about its followers and will be able to crack through the veneer of religious misinformation that plagues America today.
Divinity School Launches Online Religious Literacy Course
Harvard expects tens of thousands of participants for the Divinity School's new edX aimed at promoting religious literacy.
CS50 Forays Into High School Computer Science with AP Pilot
CS50, one of the College's largest courses, is adding high school education to its sizeable portfolio with an AP Course supported heavily by Microsoft and currently being piloted in more than 40 high schools across the nation.
New Study Raises Questions of Access for HarvardX
A new study suggests online education may not be the panacea to income-based education gaps that proponents have claimed.
EdX Course on Mao Raises Questions of Propaganda
The course has garnered controversy, with some questioning whether it objectively teaches Mao Zedong’s theories, strategies, and policies and calling it a reiteration of the Chinese Communist Party ideology.
edX: “Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought”
Tshingua University’s edX course “Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought” has come under criticism for purportedly espousing Communist party propaganda. A screenshot from the an introductory video on the course’s website shows the former leader of the People’s Republic of China.
Public Health ‘Blended’ Online Degree Draws Praise
Launched with its first cohort in June, the School of Public Health’s blended degree program combines on-campus and online courses.
Provost Lauds HarvardX, But Questions Its Financial Sustainability
Alan M. Garber '76 projected that the current models for funding Harvard's branch of the virtual education platform are unsustainable, given the high monetary and time cost of generating online material.