MIT offers free training programs over the Internet

Later this year, the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will become the first US university to provide nearly 1,800 free courses on the Internet.

Anne Margulies, head of the online curriculum, said: ' We implemented this project because MIT believes that spreading through the Internet will be the most effective way to develop education around the world. ' .

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

However, with this program, students are only entitled to receive knowledge on the Internet and cannot get a degree from MIT or contact the departments in this school.

In fact, MIT has launched the program 'OpenCourseWare' (roughly translated as Open Courseware Program) since 2003 and provides hundreds of online courses. 'Mirroring' MIT has also had a number of other American schools implementing this approach. Last year, Stanford School put a number of classes online, and Bryn Mawr is also expected to launch online learning soon.

Only in the past month, about 1.5 million people visited MIT teaching website with pilot contents such as robot research, creativity and copyright, superconducting magnets.

According to Margulies, the majority of users (up to 60% are not Americans) are particularly interested in areas that are well known as MIT's 'forte' such as computer science, physics and mathematics.

For students studying at MIT, while normally they have to pay thousands of dollars in tuition for each course, this free knowledge project is becoming more and more useful. Since then, they have more research materials for exams as well as preview the courses they want to attend at the campus.

Do Duong