Wednesday the French Ministry of Higher Education announced the launch of France Universite Numerique (French Digital University), a national MOOC platform which is funded by the ministry.
Over 100 higher education institutions throughout France will p… more »
Tag: "edx"
Tomorrow at 13.30 (Delft time) the first two MOOCs (Solar Energy and Introduction to Water Treatment) of Delftx will start. The last couple of months we have been working hard organise the production process of our MOOCs and helping the faculty with the… more »
Today EdX and Google announced their partnership:
EdX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative founded by Harvard and MIT, today announced a partnership with Google to jointly develop their open-source learning platform, known as Open EdX. The co… more »
Athough a lot of people were enjoying their summer holiday, the news around MOOCs didn't stop. Here a list of interesting articles more »
In June the EdX launched its code base with a open license. Yesterday they launched a new initiative to translate the platform via a crowd-sourced platform Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/edx-platform/
Please help us to translate the pl… more »
In April EdX did an announcement about automatic grading. Elijah Mayfield responded via a blog post and now Vik Paruchuri, the author of the edX automated essay grading component, responds with a interesting and lengthy post. I think this is a really… more »
I think you can say that MOOC get a lot of attention. We have noticed it here in the Netherlands, but you also see this in the US. It is not often that The Colbert Report is talking about education. Yesterday Anant Agerwal, the President of EdX was inte… more »
On June 6th and 7th Pierre Dillenbourg from EPFL organised a European MOOC Stakeholder meeting in Lausanne. On behave of TU Delft Nellie van de Griend attended this meeting (I had a more important event).
One of the goals of the meeting was to get a go… more »
There is still no clear view on the business models of MOOCs, although Coursera, Udacity and EdX are announcing almost every week new ventures:
IMF and edX Join Forces to Pilot Online Economics and Financial Courses (pay for courses)
edX and Massach… more »
From the launch of edX the founding universities have emphasized that research into learning will be one of the initiative’s core missions. As numerous articles in both the academic and popular press have pointed out, the ability of MOOCs to generate a… more »