MOST CREATIVE
PEOPLE2017 Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal
CEO, EdX
For
mastering online education
As one of the leading providers of online education, nonprofit
digital university edX—founded in 2012 as a partnership between Harvard and
MIT—has signed up more than 11 million people around the world. In fall 2016,
CEO Anant Agarwal made a key move toward further legitimizing online
learning by debuting graduate-level programs called MicroMasters, which offer
coursework roughly equivalent to the first year of a regular master’s program.
There are almost three dozen options, which are taught in conjunction with
respected universities and are often partially developed and sponsored by
companies such as GE and IBM. Certificate earners can count coursework toward a
traditional degree if they’re later accepted into a program. “We’ve done a
lot of work to make universities comfortable,” Agarwal says. “Credit is
the gold coin of the realm.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/person/anant-agarwal
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