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Thursday, May 17, 2018
How Harvard Is Trying to Update the Extension School for the MOOC Age - Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge
You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Universities first opened these offshoots more than 100 years ago, and at the time they were innovative—throwing open the campus gates by offering night classes without any admission requirements. EdSurge recently sat down with the dean of Harvard’s Extension School, Hunt Lambert, to ask him to sort through all these offerings and give his vision of where his school is headed.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-05-03-how-harvard-is-trying-to-update-the-extension-school-for-the-mooc-age