Today, edX, the MOOC (massive open online course) platform launched by MIT and Harvard, announced the expansion of the xConsortium, the group of edX partners, with 15 new university across the globe.
These are the new partner institutions:
- The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (HKUx)
- Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong (HKUSTx)
- Kyoto University, Japan (KyotoUx)
- Peking University, Beijing, China (PekingX)
- Seoul National University, South Korea (SNUx)
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (TsinghuaX)
- The University of Queensland in Australia (UQx)
- Karolinska Institutet, Sweden (KIx)
- Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (LouvainX)
- Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany (TUMx)
- Berklee College of Music, Boston, Mass. (BerkleeX)
- Boston University, Boston, Mass. (BUx)
- Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (CornellX)
- Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. (DavidsonX)
- University of Washington, Seattle (UWashingtonX)
The news was expected as edX president Anant Agarwal indicated three weeks ago the MOOC provider would announce "a significant number" of new partnerships "in the next few weeks" when he spoke about how MOOCs can change education at a panel in Washington, D.C. It is not yet clear whether more partnerships are imminent, but stay tuned and we will keep you posted.