EdX

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