Part 7/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 research papers on increasing effectiveness of eLearning
Title – New Global Initiative in E-Learning from MIT
Author: Richard Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Young Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Abstract
The Learning International Network Consortium (LINC) is a MIT-managed project starting its activities in the year 2003. It is an international consortium of universities, foundations, government agencies and private firms. The purpose of LINC is to help facilitate the implementation of world-class tertiary education in developing countries, leveraging advanced technologies. As LINC’s first activity, a workshop was held on Feb, 2003 at MIT with 85 participants from 19 different countries. During this workshop, participants discussed how to bring higher education to developing countries. Given sufficient funding, LINC will support programmatic projects such as the Fulbright Scholars program, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Global Network for Innovative Government, and major e-learning initiatives at MIT. Each will help change and redirect efforts toward LINC. In that way LINC should become a major factor in bringing scalable and sustainable e-learning to many parts of the world.
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