With some professors grumbling over the University of California's expanding online presence, UC Berkeley is joining two of its top competitors to bring free college courses to the masses. The university will offer two free online classes this fall as part of the edX collaboration, which also includes Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. UC Berkeley employees were told about the partnership Monday. The edX venture is Berkeley's latest foray into the MOOC, or massive open online course, arena. The school already offers classes with Coursera, another free program that also includes Stanford, Princeton and the University of Michigan. Together the two ventures have some 950,000 students.
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