HarvardX Marks the Spot - Tania DeLuzuriaga, Harvard Gazette

“I figure I’d have to teach another 200 years to reach that many students in person,” said Harvard Professor Marcello Pagano, after learning that more than 100,000 people worldwide had signed up for the two Harvard courses being taught on the edX platform. Harvard University’s first two courses on the new digital education platform edX launched this week, as more than 100,000 learners worldwide began taking dynamic online versions of CS50, the College’s popular introductory computer science class, and PH207, a Harvard School of Public Health course in epidemiology and biostatistics. For Marcello Pagano, a professor of statistical computing who is co-teaching PH207x, the potential to teach so many students at once is amazing. “I figure I’d have to teach another 200 years to reach that many students in person,” he said. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/harvardx-marks-the-spot/