MIT and Harvard announce edX

peter.suber's bookmarks 2012-08-20

Summary:

“Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners. The technological platform recently established byMITx, which will serve as the foundation for the new learning system, was designed to offer online versions of MIT courses featuring video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories, and student paced learning. Certificates of mastery will be available for those motivated and able to demonstrate their knowledge of the course material. MIT and Harvard expect that over time other universities will join them in offering courses on the edX platform. EdX will release its learning platform as open-source software so it can be used by other universities and organizations that wish to host the platform themselves... MIT and Harvard will use the jointly operated edX platform to research how students learn and how technologies can support effective teaching both on-campus and online.  The edX platform will allow study of which teaching methods and tools are most successful... The initiative will be overseen by a not-for-profit organization based in Cambridge, Mass., to be owned and governed equally by the two universities. MIT and Harvard have committed to a combined $60 million ($30 million each) in institutional support, grants, and philanthropy to launch the collaboration... EdX will enhance the traditional residential model of undergraduate education on both campuses by supporting an unlimited number of experimental online approaches to teaching that can be used by Harvard and MIT faculty and that will benefit students in Cambridge and Boston.  It also will have the benefit of providing global access to some of the world-class instruction that already occurs in Cambridge and Boston, but which is only one aspect of the full Harvard and MIT experience. EdX will be separate from ongoing distance-learning initiatives at both institutions, including MIT OpenCourseWare and courses offered by Schools at Harvard, such as the Harvard Extension School, the Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Medical School."

Link:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/05/mit-and-harvard-announce-edx/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 13:39

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oa.new oa.oer oa.courseware oa.mit oa.floss oa.harvard.u oa.mitx oa.edx hu.oa oa.announcements

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 17:56

Date published:

05/04/2012, 13:39