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- Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have welcomed the University of California, Berkeley, to their online venture edX, the schools announced Tuesday.
- BerkeleyX will contribute two courses, "Artificial Intelligence” and “Software as a Service,” this fall.
- "We share the vision of MIT and Harvard leadership and believe that collaborating with the not-for-profit model of edX is the best way to do this," Robert J. Birgeneau, chancellor of UC Berkeley, said in a press release.
From the article:
EdX, a joint venture established this spring by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to offer free online classes, is getting a high-profile West Coast partner: the University of California, Berkeley. ...