Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.89
Liaison Julie Newman
Submission Date Oct. 23, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EN-12: Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.00 / 5.00 MIT Office of Sustainability
Director
Office of Sustainability
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Part 1  

Does the institution offer continuing education courses that address sustainability?:
Yes

None
Total number of continuing education courses offered:
2,500

None
Number of continuing education courses offered that address sustainability:
250

Percentage of continuing education courses that address sustainability:
10

Course Inventory 

A copy of the list and brief description of the continuing education courses that address sustainability:
---

A list and brief description of the continuing education courses that address sustainability:
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free, web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. Continuing education is a hallmark of the OCW and has been accessed by over 125 million learners. Over 2,200 MIT courses are available to the global community, including hundreds of courses related to sustainability. For more information on specific course, please see: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/energy-courses http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/environment-courses/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/transportation-courses/ Also, through MIT's global free, on-line massive open online course (MOOC) programs MITx and partner Edx, hundreds of continuing education courses are offered. https://www.edx.org and https://www.edx.org/school/mitx. Over 4 million people have taken edX courses.

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

Part 2 

Does the institution have at least one sustainability-themed certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
Yes

A brief description of the certificate program(s), including the year the program was created:
EdX offers Verified Certificates of achievement for individual courses and XSeries, Micromasters and Professional Certificates for successfully completing a series of courses that make up an XSeries, MicroMasters or Professional Certificate program. Currently, verified certificates are available in all courses.

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/environment-courses/

Additional documentation to support the submission:
---

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
---

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.