The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.

　　MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open­source edX platform.

　　“Fasten_your_seatbelts，” Hockfield said.

　　Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie­Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.

　　The Harvard­MIT program will be monitored by a not­for­profit(非盈利的)organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $ 30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.

　　53. According to this text, edX is ________.

　　A．a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWare

　　B．a free computer program by MIT and Harvard

　　C．a Harvard­MIT platform of free online courses

　　D．a free program online for universities worldwide

　　54. What is said about online education in the text?

　　A．Universities have been trying online courses.

　　B．About 2,000 online courses have been offered.

　　C．Over 100 million people have finished courses online.

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