UT System plans to evaluate Massive Online Open Courses

By S. David Ramirez. The University of Texas System has partnered with edX, a popular Massive Online Open Courses platform, to expand the growing field of MOOCs and study how these non-traditional classes work within current academic frameworks.
A MOOC is a free online course sponsored by a university on a variety of subjects. Current courses include classes on psychology, literature, art, music, statistics and biology. Students can enroll via a platform like Coursera or edX.
“One reason for aligning with edX was to become part of a national and international conversation of what education should look like in the (21st) century,” said Steven Mintz, executive director of the UT Institute for Transformational Learning. Read more...