Unlike its peers at the top of the edX food chain (such as MOOC ), Coursera and Udacity plans to remain committed to traditional institutions, developing pathways to credit for non-traditional students. Hollands reports the MOOC provider plans to double down on such credit-bearing initiatives, increasing the quality of its courses, the personalisation, and the number of learning experiences so partner schools can move toward financial sustainability with their programmes. “The first three years of edX 1.0 was experimental, let 1,000 flowers bloom,” edX chief executive Anant Agarwal told EdSurge. Although edX launched with the goal of democratising education, it has mainly served the elite, but initiatives in development or already announced for The first three years could bring the company back to its initial goal, opening access to affordable, credit-bearing courses at the world’s top institutions.
Unlike its peers at the top of the edX food chain (such as MOOC ), Coursera and Udacity plans to remain committed to traditional institutions, developing pathways to credit for non-traditional students. Hollands reports the MOOC provider plans to double down on such credit-bearing initiatives, increasing the quality of its courses, the personalisation, and the number of learning experiences so partner schools can move toward financial sustainability with their programmes. Although edX launched with the goal of democratising education, it has mainly served the elite, but initiatives in development or already announced for The first three years could bring the company back to its initial goal, opening access to affordable, credit-bearing courses at the world’s top institutions.