Anant Agarwal quotes
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“I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?”
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“Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.”
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“If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.”
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“There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.”
-- Anant AgarwalSource : "Essay-Grading Software Offers Professors a Break". Interview, www.nytimes.com. April 4, 2013.
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“A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.”
-- Anant AgarwalSource : "News Stream" by Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2012.
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“EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.”
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“Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.”
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“When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.”
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“We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.”
-- Anant Agarwal
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