How Jordan’s Queen plans to ‘democratize access’ to education
Above: Rania Al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan, Haifa Dia Al-Attia, CEO of her foundation, and Anant Agarwal, president of edXMost of the new online education providers are based in the United States, but...
View ArticleThis summer, you can learn Linux free & online from Harvard & MIT
Want to learn Linux? The Linux Foundation announced today that it will be offering its $2,400 “Introduction to Linux” course for free through edX, the Harvard/MIT online learning platform that supports...
View ArticleFighting to fix online education’s engagement problem, NovoEd books $2M
Image Credit: ShutterstockWhat’s the greatest shortcoming of online education today? It’s boring. Really boring. That’s the problem NovoEd raised $2 million to solve. NovoEd, the fourth massive open...
View ArticleStudy: MIT’s online physics class can teach students of all abilities
Image Credit: Flickr user Tulane Public RelationsOne of the hopes with Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is that they give anyone around the world access to great teachers. But high profile...
View ArticleUniversity group open sources its code for online learning
Education is already accessible online. Now it’s going open source too. Nonprofit edX is less well known than Coursera and Udacity, its for-profit competition. But it also offers online courses from...
View ArticleDigital learning finds a bigger home in California’s state university system
SAN JOSE, Calif. — California’s colleges are facing a funding crisis, so universities are turning to massive open online education (dubbed “MOOCs”) to bolster pass rates and help students graduate on...
View ArticleCalifornia university's online education experiment gets an 'F'— for now
San Jose State University is shuttering the five online classes it introduced in April, a decision that may prove to be a major setback for online education. On Thursday, the university announced it...
View ArticleOpen edX: The open source learning management system for corporations and...
GUEST: This month marks the third birthday of edX, the online learning platform developed jointly by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In that short time, usage of the...
View ArticleUniversity group open sources its code for online learning
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Education is already accessible online. Now it’s going open source too. Nonprofit edX is less well known than...
View ArticleDigital learning finds a bigger home in California’s state university system
SAN JOSE, Calif. — California’s colleges are facing a funding crisis, so universities are turning to massive open online education (dubbed “MOOCs”) to bolster pass rates and help students graduate on...
View ArticleOpen edX: The open source learning management system for corporations and...
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. GUEST: This month marks the third birthday of edX, the online learning platform developed jointly by Harvard...
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