edX Drops Plans to Connect MOOC Students With Employers – Wired Campus - Blogs Can taking a MOOC help a student land a better job? Proponents of the massive open online courses hope so. Each of the major MOOC providers—Coursera, edX, and Udacity—has expressed interest in helping connect employers to well-qualified job applicants who succeed in their online courses. But now, after a failed experiment, edX says it is giving up on job-placement services. That was among several developments described last month to members of edX’s consortium in a private meeting during which a possible expansion of the group and of the edX business model were also discussed. In a pilot job-placement program, edX recruited 868 high-performing students from two computer-science MOOCs at the University of California at Berkeley. But it didn’t pan out. The MOOC provider has a number of theories about why the experiment went so poorly. “Existing HR departments want to go for traditional degree programs and filter out nontraditional candidates,” reads one slide from the presentation.
Khan Academy (khanacademy) Office of Ed Tech (@OfficeofEdTech) | Twitter EdTech K–12 Magazine (@EdTech_K12) | Twitter... EdTech Higher Ed (@EdTech_HigherEd) | Twitter... How edX Plans to Earn, and Share, Revenue From Free Online Courses - Technology By Steve Kolowich How can a nonprofit organization that gives away courses bring in enough revenue to at least cover its costs? That's the dilemma facing edX, a project led by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is bringing in a growing number of high-profile university partners to offer massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Two other major providers of MOOCs, Coursera and Udacity, are for-profit companies. While edX has cast itself as the more contemplative, academically oriented player in the field, it remains under pressure to generate revenue. "Even though we are a nonprofit, we have to become self-sustaining," said Anant Agarwal, president of edX. Legal documents, obtained by The Chronicle from edX, shed some light on how edX plans to make money and compensate its university partners. According to Mr. Although the edX-supported model requires cash upfront, the potential returns for the university are high if a course ends up making money.
#ETMOOC | A MOOC about educational technology & media – Coming January 2013 edtech digest (@edtechdigest) | Twitter... Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses – Wired Campus - Blogs The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a partnership that will host online courses from both institutions free of charge. The platform, its creators say, has the potential to improve face-to-face classes on the home campuses while giving students around the world access to a blue-ribbon education. The new venture, called edX, grew out of MIT’s announcement last year that it would offer free online courses on a platform called MITx. Students who complete the courses on the edX platform will not receive university credit, although they could earn certificates. At a news conference, the leaders of edX described it as a tool that colleges can use to experiment with online courses and study how students learn. edX plans to host its first courses this fall, across an array of disciplines. L. “Is there a sustainability model in place for these initiatives?” Return to Top
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