By IVAN B. K. LEVINGSTON, Harvard Crimson
Representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Education and more than 10 of China’s top universities met Oct. 10 at Tsinghua University in Beijing to announce XuetangX, China’s newest online education portal. XuetangX is powered by Harvard’s edX’s open-source platform, but the initiative is a distinct, independent organization and China’s largest online collaboration of leading universities. It will begin to launch courses on Oct. 17. Chinese government and university representatives revealed the initiative just two days after another provider of massive open online courses, Coursera, announced the launch of its own Chinese-language portal.
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