Karolinska becomes first university in Sweden to offer massive open online courses for a global student audience

A new partnership with educational platform edX means that Karolinska Institutet has become the first university in Sweden to offer internet-based courses to hundreds of thousands of students around the world.

"This means that we have put ourselves way ahead of the field as we meet the future's demand for quality academic courses," says dean of higher education Professor Jan-Olov Höög. "It makes Karolinska Institutet an important actor on the global educational arena&and puts it in good company." Read more...