BANGALORE: The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, (IIMB) has become the country’s first B-school to join edX, an online learning platform that provides massive open online courses (MOOCs), as a contributing member.
With this, IIMBx would leverage new technologies and deliver education through MOOCs to learners all over the world. “We are gearing up to create the capability to teach differently and edX is a great platform to extend IIMB’s educational impact across the globe,” said IIMB Director Sushil Vachani adding that people who could not afford world-class education would now have access to it.
edX is a Massachusetts-based non-profit enterprise created by founding partners from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It offers interactive online classes from the world’s best universities and was created for students and institutions seeking cutting-edge technologies, innovative teaching methods and rigorous courses. Vachani termed it a “tremendous opportunity” for IIMB.
“In addition to delivering top-quality management education on campus to small classes of students, chosen through our highly competitive admission process, we will use technology to provide selected management courses to a much larger population in India and the world over,” he said.