Serves: K-12, higher education, and working professionals looking to advance their careers
- Mission:
- Increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere
- Enhance teaching and learning on campus and online
- Advance teaching and learning through research
- Structure:
- Improves on-campus education through blended learning
- Empowers research in pedagogy
- MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) provider that offers high quality courses from the best universities and institutions around the world
- 90 global partners – universities, nonprofits, and other institutions
- Features: captivating video lectures, quizzes, discussion forums, interactive labs/exercises, experiments, assessments
- Learning Options: Students can obtain a micro masters certificate, professional certificate or XSeries certificate
- Cost: Free, no application, open to everyone
- Why educators use this model for teaching: Better retention of information, ability to take a deeper dive into content shared through videos, readings, etc.
- Platform: Allows for conduction of experiments while exploring how students learn and how faculty can integrate a variety of tools and techniques into their teaching