San Jose State University and edX Announce Course Expansion to 11 California State University Campuses

SJSU will open a Center for Excellence in Adaptive and Blended Learning. The expanded collaboration follows a promising pilot where edX blended model correlated with higher pass rates.
Thousands more California State University students will benefit from a major expansion to the collaboration between San Jose State University and edX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). SJSU and edX detailed this announcement at a news conference April 10. View the video at www.sjsu.edu. An online engineering course in circuits and electronics -- created by MIT as an MITx course for the edX platform and offered to San Jose State students for the first time last fall -- will be made available to as many as 11 other CSU campuses. The expansion will benefit thousands of students from nearly half of Cal State’s 23 campuses.
San Jose State will concurrently establish a Center for Excellence in Adaptive and Blended Learning to train faculty members from other campuses interested in offering the engineering course and other blended online courses in the future. Read more...