Akash ChaudharyMaria Francis

About Massive Open Online Course Provider

It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide student body, including some courses at no charge

It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform.

edX differs from other MOOC providers, such as  Coursera and Udacity, in that it is a nonprofit organization and runs on open-source software.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University created edX in May 2012. More than 70 schools, nonprofit organizations, and corporations offer or plan to offer courses on the edX website.

 As of 22 October 2014, edX has more than 4 million students taking more than 500 courses online

MISSION

Increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhereEnhance teaching and learning on campus and onlineAdvance teaching and learning through research

FEATURESself-paced learningonline discussion groupsonline laboratorieswiki-based collaborative learningassessment of learning as a student

progresses through a course 

By The Numbers

Home Page

FIND A NEW COURSE

REVIEW AND CHOOSE

BECOME AN EDX MEMBER

START STUDYINGAND HAVING FUN

Learning at Earn a valuable certificate

Excel in high school

Earn University Credit

Master a subject

Advance your career

Why online learning in organizations?

Large organizations understand the value in having a well educated employee base.

Employees are the life-blood of any company, easily the most valuable asset.

It only makes sense to invest in themOnline learning opportunities:

employee on boardingskill enhancementself-directed trainingInnovationbrand marketing.

7 ways corporations use Online learning

 Building Talent Pipelines.350+ companies are paying online course providers to identify the best and brightest students in relevant courses and refer them as possible job candidates.

Onboarding employees 80+ hours of new hire orientation now converted to

online courses which participants can take at their own pace.

 Self-directed Career Development.Deloitte, Yahoo! are cited as some of the companies that encourage employees to enroll in MOOCs for career development purposes.

Brand Marketing.The University of California, Irvine offers the course Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC’s The Walking Dead. While this is not a first in using pop culture as pedagogical material, what’s distinctive about this course is that it is funded by AMC in order to “drive a deep sustained connection with the show.”

Channel/Customer Education. SAP offers its own MOOCs to train customers and partners; because they are open to anyone who registers, these are legitimate MOOCs. The IMF has been working with edX to develop courses about debt and financial policy making for government official.s.

Workforce Training.Google has enrolled 80,000 employees in Udacity’s HTML5 course, a great example of using a MOOC for workforce training.

Collaboration and Innovation.The combination of formal, informal and social learning methodologies, dubbed “the MOOC approach” in the webinar, has served as an effective tool to find solutions to real-life business problems. Over 100 companies have used the University of Virginia/Coursera platform, Coursolve, to do just that. This may be one of the most promising business uses of a MOOC.

edX and Knowledge Management

Determine strategic KM

needs

Determine Knowledge

Gap

Close Knowledge

Gap

Disseminate & apply

knowledge required

Helps empower workforce with skills and knowledge helps in service delivery to customer and leveraging corporate knowledge

Provides access to explicit corporate knowledge and tacit knowledge which has been captured and made available

Repository of knowledgeHelps to acquire knowledge—pass it from one person to

another—apply to solve org. problems—store for future use

Creation of knowledge by collaboration

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