EdX Online Education Platform

EdX is a joint creation of MIT and Harvard University. “The partnership strives to bring online learning to people across the globe and offers online classes for free.” EdX courses use quizzes, videos, feedback and other methods to engage students in online learning. EdX is a non-commercial, nonprofit platform which received $ 60 million in funding from Harvard and MIT. It offers not-for-credit courses to a worldwide audience. It also received $1 million dollars in support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in May.

UC Berkeley is the first public university to join the EdX platform. “The addition of UC Berkeley will give the “edX” online effort its first expansion into a prestigious public university and a foothold on the West Coast away from its Cambridge, Mass. Base.”


Reference: Access Granted: EdX Offers Courses from MIT, Harvard, Metro NY, July 30, 2012 and UC Berkeley joins online education platform of Harvard and MIT, LA Times Blogs, July 24, 2012
 

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