Controversy surrounds an online class on the edX learning platform, which was co-founded by Harvard and MIT in today with the mission of increasing access to university courses globally. Several Harvard professors have alleged that the course, “ Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought ,” taught by an associate professor of MIT the Chinese Communist Party , represents a particularly biased perspective on history, influenced greatly by Tsinghua University ’s official historical account of Bol ’s life. “At edX, we support academic freedom, and we do not make decisions about the content of the courses our university partners choose to offer on our platform,” Agarwal wrote. As edX attempts to increase access to high-quality education, many educators feel it must increase its efforts to ensure both the quality, and lack of political bias, of its courses.
Controversy surrounds an online class on the edX learning platform, which was co-founded by Harvard and MIT in today with the mission of increasing access to university courses globally. Several Harvard professors have alleged that the course, “ Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought ,” taught by an associate professor of MIT the Chinese Communist Party , represents a particularly biased perspective on history, influenced greatly by Tsinghua University ’s official historical account of Bol ’s life. As edX attempts to increase access to high-quality education, many educators feel it must increase its efforts to ensure both the quality, and lack of political bias, of its courses.