edX is a large online course provider of online courses (MOOC). It hosts online university-level courses in various disciplines for student bodies worldwide, including several courses at no cost. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use their platforms. EdX is a nonprofit organization and runs on open source open source software platform.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University created edX in May 2012. More than 70 schools, nonprofit organizations, and companies offer or plan to offer courses on the edX website. On December 29, 2017, edX has about 14 million students taking over 1,800 online courses.
Video EdX
Function
The EdX course consists of a weekly learning sequence. Each sequence of study consists of short videos interspersed with interactive learning exercises, where students can immediately practice the concept of the video. These courses often include tutorial videos that are similar to discussion groups in small campuses, online textbooks, and online discussion forums where students can post and review questions and comments with each other and teaching assistants. If possible, an online laboratory is included in the course. For example, in the first MOOC EDX - an electronic circuit and course - students build virtual circuits in an online lab.
EdX offers a successful completion certificate and some qualified credit courses. Whether universities or universities offer credit for online courses is at their own discretion. EdX offers a variety of ways to take courses, including verified courses where students have the option to audit the course (no cost) or to work towards the EDX Certified Certification (fees vary by course). For courses announced before December 7, 2015, there is an option to take honors code courses to work towards the Certificate of Honor Code (no fees). EdX also offers XSeries Certificates for completion of a collection of two to seven verified courses in one subject (fees vary depending on course).
Maps EdX
Research
In addition to educational offerings, edX is used for research in distance learning and education by collecting attendee clicks and analyzing data, as well as collecting demographics from each registrant. A team of researchers at Harvard and MIT, led by David Pritchard and Lori Breslow, released their preliminary findings in 2013. Schools and member organizations of EdX also conduct their own research using data gathered from their programs. Research focuses on improving retention, course completion and learning outcomes in traditional and online campus courses.
EdX has been involved in a number of partnerships with educational institutions in the United States, China, Mongolia, Japan, and others to take advantage of the edX course in "mixed classroom." In an integrated learning model, the traditional classroom includes an interactive component online. San Jose State University (SJSU) partnered with edX to offer 6.00xL Introduction to Computer Science and Programming , as a joint course at SJSU and released a preliminary report on the project in February 2013. Preliminary results show a drop in failure rates from the semester previous. The percentage of students required to take the course back decreases from 41% under the traditional format to 9% for those taking the mixed edX course. In Spring 2013, Bunker Hill Community College and Massachusetts Bay Community College apply SPOC, or a small private online course. The college incorporated the Python programming courses that MIT developed on EdX into their campus-based programs, and reported positive results.
Go to edX
Open edX is an open-source software platform developed by EdX and is made freely available to other higher education institutions looking to make similar offers. On June 1, 2013, edX opened its entire platform source. Source code can be found in GitHub.
EDX server-side software is almost entirely based on "Python, with Django as a web application framework."
Usage
Some higher education institutions use Open edX to provide MOOC services, such as St. George's University Online, MITx MIT platform, and La Serena University.
Some private companies also use Open edX to provide training to the target population. For example, MongoDB uses "Mongo University", which is supported by Open edX, to provide training for their database products.
Leadership
In March 2014, edX appointed Wendy Cebula, former COO of Vistaprint, as President and Chief Operating Officer. Anant Agarwal's CEO of MIT stated that Cebula would bring "entrepreneurial aspect" and help nonprofits to access "commercial opportunities." Alan M. Garber, Provost of Harvard University, assisted by Michael D. Smith, a computer scientist who is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, handles Harvard's contributions. The design of a viable business model for corporate sustainability is ongoing.
History
EdX was founded in May 2012 by scientists from Harvard and MIT. Gerry Sussman, Anant Agarwal, Chris Terman, and Piotr Mitros teaches the first EDX courses in circuitry and electronics from MIT, attracting 155,000 students from 162 countries. In 2013 they partnered with Stanford and in June 2013 they reached 1 million students. edx.org was released as open source, creating Open edX.
In September 2014 edX announced a high school initiative.
In October 2014 edX announced Professional Education course, and in March 2015 partnered with Microsoft.
In April 2015, edX partnered with Arizona State University to launch the Global Freshman Academy.
In September 2016, edX launched 19 MicroMasters programs.
In February 2017, edX launched 16 MicroMasters programs.
In January 2018, edX partnered with Microsoft and General Electric to provide subsidized online courses and guaranteed job interviews.
On January 9, 2018, Tech Mahindra partnered with EDX to retrain the workforce in new technology.
Participating institutions
By the end of 2013, several countries and private entities announced the adoption of the open source edX platform to launch new initiatives. Ten Chinese universities joined together to form an online education initiative in China, called XuetangX. 120 higher education institutions in France join under the direction of the French Ministry of Education to offer online courses throughout France, the Rania Queen Foundation for Education and Development (QRF) created Edraak as the first MOOC portal for the Arab world, the International Monetary Fund uses the edX platform to pioneer the course online training in economics and finance, and Tenaris company is using this platform to expand the company's training and education for its employees.
As of March 2017, edX has more than 110 partners, including universities, nonprofit organizations, and NGOs.
References
External links
- Official website
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