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Google and Edx Create a Mooc Site For the Rest of US
Google and edX, a nonprofit joint venture founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are collaborating to create MOOC.org, a spinoff website in which users can sign up for a massive open online course (MOOC) or create one of their own. The site will provide tools and a platform that "will allow any academic institution, business, and individual to create and host online courses," says Google's Dan Clancy. Google also is planning to fold its Course Builder project into MOOC.org, which will utilize Google servers.
Similar to other MOOC platforms, MOOC.org will generate data that describes how class participants are interacting with course materials. Although both Google and edX "will collaborate on research into how students learn and how technology can transform learning and teaching," edX will own the data generated by the courses, says edX president Anant Agarwal, who describes the website as a "YouTube for courses." Agarwal emphasizes that "edX has control of how the data is being used and shared, and edX will definitely do the right thing by those data on the site."
From The Chronicle of Higher Education
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