Big news from MIT today with its announcement of MITx, an online learning platform that will, for a “modest fee,” offer non-enrolled students a certificate for successful course completion. (With that, kudos to Dave Cormier for having one of his 2012 ed-tech predictions already come true!)

You can read my thoughts (and my long list of questions) about the new initiative over on Inside Higher Ed.

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