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Harvard and MIT point to online future in higher ed

    May 13, 2012

The expense of higher education has become a crippling burden on students and families — which is why it’s encouraging that local institutions are exploring new approaches to lowering costs. MIT and Harvard have announced a collaboration called edX that will offer five online courses next year for free. It’s a higher education model that could evolve into a much lower-cost way of delivering quality instruction.

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