Education

Harvard and MIT launch nonprofit to increase college access

From EdSurge: “What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years … The result is a new nonprofit named Axim Collaborative, and its focus will be on serving learners that higher education has historically left behind. … The $800 million underpinning the effort derived from a controversial decision by the two universities in 2021 to sell their edX online learning platform to 2U.”

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