Gates Foundation jump starts education trials
JUN 20, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.026113
Chronicle of Higher Education : The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced $9 million in grants to find out whether online courses can be integrated into public education. The MITx project for example, in which anyone can register and take a series of courses by MIT professors, received $1 million from the foundation. The money will be used to help low income students at partner colleges study the online classes and see how much additional training is required for students to grasp the concepts in the material. The largest award, $3 million, will go to MyCollege Foundation to create a new nonprofit college designed to deliver high-quality online courses at low cost to students.
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