Published: October 15, 2013
Harvard Business School Prepares to Offer Online Courses
Harvard Business School (HBS) is at work on a new online learning initiative called HBX, though it is sharing few details about the effort so far, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Chronicle of Higher Education report.
Other top business schools like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business have been unveiling MOOCs (massive online open courses) over the past year, as has Harvard University itself. So it’s not surprising that HBS is developing online courses, too, although it hasn’t decided yet whether those courses will be broadcast as MOOCs, according to the Chronicle.
Brian C. Kenny, HBS chief marketing and communications officer, told the Chronicle that the school has not yet decided if it would use edX, the nonprofit organization Harvard University founded last year with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to deliver the online courses. But Kenny told Bloomberg BW that the courses would likely be offered through edX, starting in spring or summer 2014.
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