The University of Texas (UT) System today announced its affiliation with edX, the nonprofit Harvard-MIT online learning venture launched last May. The Texas decision, made public in Austin this morning, brings to four the number of edX partners: University of California, Berkeley joined in July, and is offering fall online courses on the edX platform, along with those taught by faculty from the two founding institutions. Harvard and MIT have thus attracted the flagship research institution from the California public system and the entire University of Texas system to the edX platform, which is committed to open-source software and to pursuing a dual mission alluded to in the UT announcement: extending classes to a worldwide audience, and applying what is learned from online instruction to campus-based teaching and learning.
According to the UT release, Texas aims to:
- offer at least four edX courses within the next year;
- focus not only on global online learning, but also aim to “redesign general education courses and traditional entry-level courses that are too often made up of several hundred students.” (Through its Institute for Transformational Learning, the announcement said, “the UT System plans to give students more options by offering courses that are customized to student needs. For example, the UT System plans to offer courses that use a combination of technology and face-to-face interaction, courses that allow students to manage their own time by accelerating through sections they have already mastered or spending more time on areas they find challenging, and fully online courses so students are not limited by their location.”); and
- offer courses through edX that will allow students to earn college credits toward a degree.
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