A study by HarvardX researchers will use the diversity of courses and modules in the HarvardX catalog to potentially gain deeper insights into course-to-course variability. (Image courtesy of HarvardX) HarvardX-affiliated…
Continue readingOpensource.com recently published an update on the previously announced BostonX project: City of Boston teams up with edX to create BostonX Posted 20 Aug 2013 by Carolyn Fox The City…
Continue readingOur day for million milestones. From the Harvard Crimson: EdX has hit the one-million students mark—meaning it’s one-thousandth of the way to its goal of educating one billion people. The…
Continue readingNathan Heller has a really nice deep dive into the world of MOOCs in this week’s New Yorker. Here’s a taste: Education is a curiously alchemic process. Its vicissitudes are…
Continue readingReally nice piece in the Washington Post looking back at edX’s first year, and forward at what’s coming up, including the Mechanics ReView MOOC from MITx: One MITx course to…
Continue readingA big happy birthday shout-out to our friends over at edX, who are celebrating their first birthday today. EdX was announced at a press conference on May 2, 2013. One…
Continue readingExcellent “Who’s who, and how are they connected” graphic in the Chronicle of Higher Ed today. Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of…
Continue readingOur friends at Harvard are beginning to share some of what they are learning from HarvardX: Andrew Ho, research director of HarvardX and an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate…
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