Thursday, March 26, 2015

EdX Partnership with Microsoft, Smithsonian Could Provide Professional Preparation - HANNAH SMATI, Harvard Crimson

EdX, a massive open online course platform founded by Harvard and MIT in 2012, will launch seven courses on programming and cloud technologies in collaboration with Microsoft. A motivation behind the partnership might have been to reach edX’s student audience, according to Ray Schroeder, associate vice chancellor for online learning at the University of Illinois Springfield. Schroeder said there is an increasing number of employers looking for students that have specific technical skills for entry-level jobs, and so collaborating with edX would be a good way to target potential employees. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/3/24/edx-microsoft-smithsonian-collaboration/