MOOCs spread around the edX and Coursera world

By Geoff Maslen. The world’s two largest providers of massive open online courses, or MOOCs – the US-based edX and Coursera – have separately established new links with universities across the globe, including in Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico and Singapore, while also signing up more American universities. The US$60 million, non-profit MOOCs platform called edX announced that it had added six new global higher education institutions, to double the numbers in its X University Consortium, while the US$16 million Coursera brought in 29 more universities to add to its existing 33 partners. Read more...