MIT introduces credit-based online learning

By Tony Bates. MIT is famous for its non-credit MOOCs, but now, for the first time, it is offering a credit program at least partially online. 
The one year Master in Supply Chain Management will consist of one semester taking online courses and one semester on campus, starting in February, 2016. This will run alongside the existing 10 month on-campus program. The online classes that make up the first semester will cost US$150, while the exam is $400 to $800. The second semester on campus will cost at least half what it costs for the yearlong program, which would mean about another $17,000. More...