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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
It is the largest online music school in the world [5] with more than 18,000 annual enrollments in credit-based courses and more than 3.1 million enrollments in massive open online courses through Coursera, EdX, and Kadenze. [6] As of 2021, Berklee Online has nearly 250 courses and instructors. [7] [8]
This program accepts applications for university lecturers that wish to put their courses online, and gives grants of between $10,000 – 15,000 CAD per course that is put online, and made available free of charge to the general public (ibid.). The most prestigious award is for the "national level CQOCW", then there is "provincial level" and ...
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.
2U was founded in 2008 by John Katzman (who founded The Princeton Review and later, Noodle) originally naming it 2tor (pronounced "Tutor") after his dog Tor. [6] Katzman recruited colleagues including Chip Paucek (former CEO of Hooked on Phonics), and technology entrepreneur Jeremy Johnson to be co-founders. [7]