I recently finished a edX “MITx 14.73x: The Challenges of Global Poverty,” a course of study offered by MITx, an online learning initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through edX, by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee. It was another MOOCs class that I decided to try and overall it was nicely done, so I guess I would say that it falls in the middle (not the best MOOCs, but not the worst MOOCs). It always drives me a bit crazy when you email whoever is suppose to be running the class and they never respond. Why post an email address if you are not going to respond? It did supplemented some of my PhD classes, so that was nice. The class had videos, tests at the end of each week, and even a little final (25 questions) at the end of the class. I passed the class and so I received a Verified Certificate of Achievement which was issued on December 15, 2016.
