OK, you use your smartphone all the time: you use the latest and greatest apps, you can text or tweet with the best of them, you have the knack for selfies, and so on. You probably also have a computer, tablet, and a gaming system, each of which you are also very proficient with. No question: you are a whiz with electronic devices. But, if you're like most of us, you don't really know how or why they work. Maybe that's OK. Most of us don't know how our cars work either, couldn't explain how heavier-than-air flight is possible, have no idea what the periodic table means to our daily lives, and would be in trouble if our lives depending on us making, say, bricks or glass...
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Are Universities Making a Global Shift to Open Source Education?
By Jodi Biddle | September 30, 2014
You've probably heard of MIT's OpenCourseWare program by now; or at least, you will have heard that some universities are offering versions of their courses online for free. But what does that even mean? That anybody with an Internet connection can now get a Bachelor's degree from MIT? The answer is still, more or less, "it's complicated"...
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Computational Thinking in Healthcare
By Kim Bellard | April 5, 2017
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Education Technology Trends – Part I – Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Janet Wagner | ProgrammableWeb | August 22, 2013
This is the first post of a three-part series covering recent trends and developments in education technology. Read More »
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EdX Announces Partnership With Google To Expand Open Source Platform
Press Release |
edX |
September 10, 2013
Google will collaborate with edX on MOOC.org, new destination and hosting site for online learning Read More »
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EdX Goes Open Source To Woo MOOC Developers
Michael Fitzgerald | InformationWeek | June 6, 2013
Will edX's decision to release its full source code attract more contributors to the Harvard/MIT-backed massive open online course platform? Read More »
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Harvard & MIT Announce EdX, a Disruptive Joint Venture That Will Offer Free Online Courses
Lauren Landry | BostInno | May 2, 2012
By the time the first MITx course launched, 90,000 people had already registered, merely proving the popularity of online education. Today, however, with the help of Harvard University, MIT’s upped the ante. Together, the two have announced EdX, a new tool designed to build on both schools’ experience in online learning. Read More »
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India has the second largest enrollment in Online Education in the world
Venkata Susmita Biswas | The Hindu | September 1, 2013
edX’s open source platform has become a favoured massive online open course (MOOC) destination for students from India. Read More »
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Penn Research Study on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
By Peter Groen | November 29, 2013
A new study, published last week by University of Pennsylvania researchers in the journal Nature, shows that students who have taken Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on Coursera are highly educated and career-oriented. In addition to being well-educated, the students who enrolled also tend to be young, male and employed. About 44% of all students surveyed said they had made the decision to sign up in order to gain specific skills to do their job better. Read More »
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Penn State Associate Professor Of English Stuart Selber On MOOCs
Usman Zafar Paracha | Technorati | June 22, 2013
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online courses with open access through world wide web. Students taking part in such courses participate in online classes and discussions, make notes, and give test and assignments. Read More »
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Rise Of The Corporate MOOC
Michael Fitzgerald | InformationWeek | November 27, 2013
For corporations, massive open online courses, or MOOCs, matter because they might become a major source of technical talent and training. No matter if 140,000 out of 150,000 students in an online programming class drop out -- there are still 10,000 people being trained, a substantial potential resource in a world desperate for technical talent. Read More »
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Stanford Makes Coursework Available On New Open-Source Platform
Brad Hayward | Menlo Park-Atherton Patch | June 11, 2013
Stanford online coursework will be available starting this summer on a new open-source platform, OpenEdX, the university announced Tuesday. Read More »
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Stanford Online Coursework To Be Available On New Open-Source Platform
Brad Hayward | Stanford Report | June 11, 2013
As part of its effort to promote expanded access to high-quality online learning opportunities around the world, Stanford helps launch the OpenEdX open-source platform and begins offering summer coursework on it. Read More »
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The 'Open' Education & Training Revolution Continues
By Peter Groen | November 29, 2013
First came free and 'open' source software. Then along came 'Open Access', 'Open' Data, 'Open' Standards, 'Open' IT Architecture, 'Open' Hardware, 'Open' Communities, 'Open' Government, 'Open' Education, and … The 'Open' Movement continues to spread disrupting almost every industry. The 'Open' Revolution is a rapidly spreading 21st century global phenomenon. Read More »
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The Linux Foundation and edX Announce Free Open Source Cloud Infrastructure Course
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The Linux Foundation |
March 16, 2016
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is available for registration. The course is an Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies and is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The course is free and will begin this June...
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