Question

Will I get hard copy of certificate or soft copy of certificate?? If softcopy then how it will get verified by others??

Answer 1

i would like to know that also!

Answer 2

You will most likely get a hard copy (printed) in the mail. What kind of certificate? And if you get a soft copy in email then you just print it to be verified by others. It will have a vague branding on it to ensure that it's legitimate.

Answer 3

If you are enrolled in the actual lecture stream as a fee-paying student of MIT then I would imagine a hard copy. If you are auditing the course via Open CourseWare, I don't think any kind of certificate applies. Certainly the MIT 6.189 course I joined through the Mechanical MOOC has this to say on its FAQ (at http://mechanicalmooc.org/faq.html):
"This MOOC will not offer an MITx certificate."

Answer 4

Later the MOOC faq notes:
"Do I get a certificate?"
- and answers:
"Nope, but both Codecademy offers badges and OpenStudy has SmartScore, so you’ll get recognition of your work there. One of our long-term goals for Mechanical MOOC is to figure out how recognition works in this approach. NOTE: This MOOC will not offer an MITx certificate. "

Answer 5

On the other hand, those who have been doing MIT's sort-of equivalent "edX" course do get a certificate. The course is:
6.00x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
- and the site is at:
https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2012_Fall/about.

Answer 6

@sdoradus the question was if edx students get a certificate in paper form or soft form not if they get a certificate.....