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edX: Students and Faculty at University of El Salvador Embrace edX Courses
By Professor Carlos Martinez By the end of February 2012 an alumnus sent me an email telling me that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was starting a free web course on Circuits and Electronics, taught by MIT’s former head of its artificial intelligence lab, Professor Anant Agarwal. For a week or two, I was very skeptical about enrolling — after all, I was not a Circuit Analysis professor, nor was I an Analog Electronics lecturer. However, to become an MITx student, even an online guinea pig student, was very challenging. By March 1, I had already signed up. At that time, I did not know the amount of effort that decision would demand from me. But I was resolved to be an MIT 6.002xCircuits & Electronics student, to finish at the top, and to get the certificate of mastery. I sent several emails to fellow professors. I told them about the MITx web experiment. Only one of them signed up. On their own, some students, full of enthusiasm, also decided to enroll. T…