Online Learning Update

December 30, 2015

Indonesian Online Education Platform Links Up With US Counterpart EdX

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

by Jakarta Post

Jakarta. IndonesiaX, a local massive open online course platform, is partnering with its US counterpart EdX to allow Indonesians more access to courses offered by some of the world’s most prestigious universities. EdX is an initiative spearheaded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in 2012, while IndonesiaX partners with the Bandung Institute of Technology and the Indonesia Stock Exchange, among other institutions. “The free online courses under IndonesiaX will help to democratize access to education in Indonesia and this new partnership will allow our students to access materials from one of the best educators’ in the world, such as Professor Charles Fried from Harvard University,” Lucyanna Mangeondipoero Pandjaitan, the chief executive of IndonesiaX, said in a statement received by the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday.

http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/education/indonesian-online-education-platform-links-us-counterpart-edx/

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