Dartmouth Partners With edX to Enhance Teaching and Learning | Dartmouth Now

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-01-24

Summary:

"Dartmouth announced today that it has joined edX, the nonprofit online learning platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The partnership underscores the College’s commitment to leadership in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning ... The increasing popularity of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, has been rapidly changing access to higher education. Through edX’s online platform, students of any age in any location can take courses free of charge (without academic credit) from some of the world’s finest universities, now including Dartmouth. EdX launched in 2012 and now has nearly 130 courses and 1.8 million unique users ... As a member of edX, Dartmouth will offer its first MOOC in fall 2014, with three more to follow. The courses will be taught by Dartmouth faculty members, who will receive substantial support from staff in Academic Computing and the Library to create and manage online course content.

EdX’s mission to expand access to high quality education while improving outcomes, online and in the classroom, is supported by the organization’s commitment to research on effective teaching and learning. The scale of edX’s MOOCs enables faculty to innovate and evaluate the results using large amounts of data on student interaction with online course material ... The announcement follows the 2013 appointments of Josh Kim as Dartmouth’s first director of digital learning programs and Alan Cattier ’86 as director of Academic Computing. Kim and Cattier are responsible for leading Dartmouth’s efforts to innovate with learning technologies, including edX, and helping faculty across the institution implement technology in support of their teaching goals ..."

Link:

http://now.dartmouth.edu/2014/01/dartmouth-partners-with-edx-to-enhance-teaching-and-learning/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.moocs oa.oer oa.edx oa.dartmouth_college oa.courseware oa.announcements

Date tagged:

01/24/2014, 18:40

Date published:

01/24/2014, 13:40