Teenage applicants from as far afield as India and Mongolia are catching western colleges’ attention by taking “massive open online courses” designed for older students.
远在印度和蒙古的青少年申请人因参加“大型在线公开课”(mooc)而引起西方高校的注意。Mooc原本是为年龄较大的学生设计的。
Schoolchildren taking Mooc courses on their own initiative account for about 5 per cent of the 800,000 students at edX, the online venture founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
哈佛大学和麻省理工学院(MIT)共同创办的在线教育平台edX拥有80万名学生,其中自主参加Mooc课程的中学生约占5%。
Amol Bhave, a 17-year-old from Jabalpur, India, learnt last week that he had been accepted to MIT after scoring 97 per cent on edX’s circuits and electronics course. He received the good news on March 14 – or “pi day”, as he put it in a Skype conversation with the FT.
17岁的阿莫尔•巴韦(Amol Bhave)来自印度贾巴尔普尔市。上周他获悉,他在edX电路与电子学课程中的考试得分在前3%之列,因此被MIT录取。他与英国《金融时报》记者在Skype上聊天时表示,他在3月14日国际圆周率日(pi day)这天收到了这条好消息。
“I am like the first person in my city to get into MIT ever so I have become sort of pretty famous,” Mr Bhave said.
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