Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's
Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer
science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how
students learn and how technologies can
facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»
«At the Howard University NASA University Research Center Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, we
facilitate a guest scientist lecture series with high schools in Prince George's County, MD and the District of Columbia and enlist scientists from NASA / GSFC Earth
Science Division and faculty and
graduate students from HUPAS to give lectures in schools within these systems.»