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Stanford Online Coursework to Be Available on New Open Source Platform
"We hope to continue broadening access to new educational opportunities for students of all types around the world" with high-quality online coursework, says Stanford professor John Mitchell.
Credit: Kenneth Chan / Stanford University
Stanford University recently announced that online coursework will be available starting this summer on a new open source platform called OpenEdX, which replaces Stanford's previous Class2Go platform. Among the first programs to run on the OpenEdX platform will be Stanford's popular "Three Books" summer reading program for incoming Stanford freshmen, as well as two public courses now open for registration. Stanford will use OpenEdX as one of several platforms for both online course content for on-campus Stanford students and online classes available to the public.
For the past year, Stanford has been developing open source platforms designed to make online learning widely and easily accessible. Stanford researchers added real-time chat, bulk email, new installation scripts, operations tools, and integration with external survey tools to the edX platform for its open source release.
"This platform offers another avenue for the delivery of educational material from Stanford as well as an exciting opportunity for other universities to develop their own online coursework with minimal barriers to entry," says Stanford professor John Mitchell. "By giving universities the ability to manage their online coursework directly or through a third-party provider, using a high-quality platform, we hope to continue broadening access to new educational opportunities for students of all types around the world."
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