Harvard Business School Launches HBX — from harvardmagazine.com
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Harvard Business School (HBS) [on 3/21/14] announced HBX, its venture into online learning. It differs in two significant ways from edX, the Harvard-MIT online learning partnership through which HarvardX has offered massive open online courses (MOOCs) from diverse schools for free to a worldwide audience:
- HBX uses proprietary technology, not the edX platform.
- HBX is pioneering fee-based courses, which hold the promise of significant new revenue streams.
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Harvard Business enters online education fray — from bostonglobe.com by Callum Borchers
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The foundational classes are financial accounting, business analytics, and economics for managers. All courses will be taught in the case-based learning principles of classroom courses at Harvard Business School and be led by members of the current faculty, though teaching assistants will help with instruction and feedback.
A final exam covering all three courses will conclude the term, but assessments will be based heavily on the level of mastery students display in online discussions. The grading system may resemble that of the business school, which divides students into four tiers of performance instead of assigning letter grades, but has not been finalized, said Bharat Anand, a professor of business administration who will serve as faculty director of HBX.