MIT is doing it right!
MIT is offering a fast track to the Master’s program. It
just happens to be in NORC’s content space. Here is how the system works:
You take 5 online courses:
Principles
of Microeconomics
The Challenges
of Global Poverty
Data Analysis
for Social Scientists
Foundations
of Development Policy: Advanced Development
Designing
and Running Randomized Evaluations
Pass a proctored exam for each course at a testing facility
around the world.
Earn a MicroMaster credential from MITx (from the best I can
tell, this is a certificate of completion).
What makes this different is the on-ramp to the new blended
Master’s degree of Data, Economics, and Development Policy program. This places
people in a category of earning a Master’s degree in 2 sessions (spring and
summer) of attending MIT on campus if accepted. It is the new testing process
they are evaluating over standardized tests (ACT, SAT, GRE) and a faster path
to a career. Personally, I think it is brilliant. I wrote up something similar
to this and my academic friends all said that the colleges wouldn’t go for it
for the loss of income.
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