Educational Technology

September 23, 2013

Mini MOOC Minors

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

By Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will this fall package some of its online courses into more cohesive sequences, just as edX prepares to roll out certificates of completion using identity verification. Seen together, the two announcements may provide a glimpse at what the future holds for the massive open online course provider. The “XSeries” sequences add a new layer of  structure to MITx, the institution’s section of the edX platform. The first of seven courses in the Foundations of Computer Science XSeries will be offered this fall, with one or more new courses being rolled out each semester until the fall of 2015. The Supply Chain Management XSeries, consisting of three courses, will begin in the fall of 2014. The two sequences will target undergraduates and working professionals, respectively.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/18/mit-announces-two-mooc-sequences-edx-strategy-begins-take-shape

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