MITx Experimental Course Announced by Sue Gee.
A free online course in electronics, the “prototype” for future courses being offered in MIT’s online curriculum, MITx, is now open for enrollment and will begin in March.
The first MITx course, 6.002x – Circuits and Electronics begins on March 5 and runs through till June 8. It is being taught by Anant Agarwal, Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with Gerald Sussman, professor of Electrical Engineering and CSAIL Research Scientist Piotr Mitros. An on-line adaption of 6.002, MIT’s undergraduate analog design course, it is designed to serve as a first course in an undergraduate electrical engineering (EE), or electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) curriculum.
As important at the course content itself this course will serve as the experimental prototype for MITx, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s new online learning initiative which offers classes free of charge to students worldwide.
I know topic maps are used in Norway’s educational system.
In what way would you use topic maps to enhance an online course such as this one?
One way to find out would be to take the course and explore the potential of topic maps to enrich the experience.