This article discusses how Harvard and MIT have paired up to now offer online courses at little to no cost to the students.  This article is so surprising considering the ongoing rivalry of these two educational goliaths.  As one might expect these classes have been extremely popular with over 120,000 students enrolling since’ however they are also extremely challenging leading to only 10,000 students remaining in the program after March’s midterm exam.  This article was so intriguing because I would have never expected Harvard and MIT to be the type of schools that would offer high caliber academic courses.

Lewin, T. (2012, May 02). Harvard and m.i.t. team up to offer free online courses. . Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/education/harvard-and-mit-team-up-to-offer-free-online-courses.html?_r=1&ref=technology