Carnegie Mellon University professors launch online courses for Indian students

By Manash Pratim Gohain, TNN. The Academic Financial Trading Platform (AFTP), the first massively open online course (MOOC) platform dedicated exclusively to business education, launched its courses in November 2012 to a growing community of Indian MBA students and executives. Funded by PMC Group, AFTP was founded in 2011 by two Carnegie Mellon University professors, Raj Chakrabarti (systems engineering) and Anisha Ghosh (financial economics), with the aim of delivering an integrated curriculum of business courses to interested students anywhere in the world.