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edX was founded in May 2012 by the administrations of MIT and Harvard, [5] based on the MITx initiative, created by Piotr Mitros, Rafael Reif, and Anant Agarwal in 2011 at MIT. Gerry Sussman, Anant Agarwal, Chris Terman, and Piotr Mitros taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, drawing 155,000 students from 162 ...
CS50x is a massive online open course and "one of the most popular MOOCs in the world." [34] CS50 first opened to online students in 2007, [35] but the CS50x course officially launched in 2012 as a course on edX. [36] The course content can also be taken through OpenCourseWare for those not seeking a verified certificate. [13]
The courses are free if one does not want a certificate, i.e. audit mode. For certification the platform charges approximately ₹1,000 (approximately US$ 12). A course billed as "Asia's first MOOC" given by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology through Coursera starting in April 2013 registered 17,000 students. About 60% were from ...
On January 11, 2020, the Udemy mobile app became the #1 top grossing Android app in India. [ 38 ] Udemy is sometimes seen as part of the MOOC movement available outside the traditional university system, [ 39 ] [ 40 ] providing an option for students who want to delve into complicated university level courses while studying on their own time.
The Open edX community maintains a catalog of other installations, including fully-hosted learning sites open to public courses and 350 other instances run by organizations of all sizes. [ 9 ] An Open edX marketplace also features partners that provide various services to community members running their own instances in multiple languages.
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. [9] Thrun has stated he hopes half a million students will enroll, after an enrollment of 160,000 students in the predecessor course at Stanford, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, [10] and 90,000 students had enrolled in the initial two classes as of March 2012.
Coursera's CEO describes the platform as a "managed marketplace," akin to Apple's app store, where the company curates courses, sets format standards, and establishes pricing guidelines. Revenue sharing varies, with universities receiving 60% of revenue from degree courses, and an even split for certificate courses in technology and business.
OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet.OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining traction in Europe and then the United States have become a worldwide means of delivering educational content.