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Online Learning Platform, edX, Goes International With The Addition Of Six New Schools
When it comes to online education and massive open online courses (a.k.a. “MOOCs”), Udacity and Coursera have stolen most of the attention. But they aren’t the only two choices for voracious distance learners out there; in fact, the number of options has grown considerably.
Last May, Harvard and MIT teamed up to launch edX — their own, high-profile response to Coursera, Udacity and the MOOC-y wave sweeping higher education. Backed by $60 million, the non-profit partnership made courses from both schools available to the public for free via a learning experience designed specifically for interactive study on the Web.
In addition to making the MIT and Harvard learning experience available at scale to learners around the world, edX has been built on top of the open-source MITx platform in effort to allow other institutions to take advantage of its technology and make their courses available through edX. In the big picture, the organization wants universities to be able to use its platform to research the efficacy of online learning and better understand how technology can transform education both in and out of the classroom.
To date, edX has attracted over 675,000 students and edX President Anant Agarwal says that the platform is on track to educate one million students in its first year — the first step in its ambitious goal of educating one billion over the next decade. While MOOCs have traditionally focused on providing students with a variety of online courses for free online, he says that edX’s vision is “much larger.” Through MITx, the goal is to build an open source educational platform and network of the world’s top universities to help improve education both online and on-campus.
In doing so, edX announced today that it is officially expanding its reach from North America to Europe and Asia by doubling the number of its member institutions and will be adding a handful of new courses to its roster. The platform’s international expansion adds six new institutions to the organization’s so-called “X University Consortium,” including Australian National University, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, McGill University and the University of Toronto in Canada and Rice University in the U.S.
The expansion will enable edX “to better achieve its mission of providing a world-class education for everyone, everywhere,” Agarwal said, and is a natural evolution as the organization looks to beef up support for its increasingly international student body. The institutions will each offer courses in their respective areas of expertise, as Delft University (the oldest technical institution in the Netherlands) will feature “Introduction to Aerospace Engineering” and “Water Treatment Engineering” and the University of Toronto will offer a number of engineering, biology and businesses courses, for example.
“Each of these schools was carefully selected for the distinct expertise and regional influence they bring to the platform,” the edX President said, and their courses will “provide the same rigor” students would find in their classrooms. The difference, of course, is that the classes are designed to leverage the benefits of online learning environments by offering game-ified experiences, cutting-edge laboratories and instant feedback.
The six new members of edX join Harvard and MIT, as well as a handful of other institutions that have joined its ranks since last summer, including University of California at Berkeley, the University of Texas, Wellesley College and Georgetown University.
The new members will begin offering courses on edX beginning in the fall of 2013.
For more info, find edX at home here.
Sarah Mahboob Khan
Sarah Mahboob Khan
| Country |  Pakistan |
|---|---|
| Born | February 9, 1991 (age 22) Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
| Turned pro | 2010 |
| Plays | Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand) |
| Prize money | $687 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 2-4 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 2-4 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Last updated on: 30 May 2011. | |
Sarah Mahboob Khan (born 9 February 1991) is a Pakistani tennis player who is the leading player in her country and who has reached the furthest for players from her country in international tournaments.
[edit]Biography
Mahboob Khan was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 9 February 1991, and her father is a tennis coach.[1]
In 2004, Mahboob Khan became the youngest ever Pakistan National Champion, aged 14.[2]
Mahboob Kahn has been Pakistan's leading tennis player since 2005.[1][3]
She is the only player to have won Pakistan national titles on clay, hard, and grass, and has won a record number of National Rankings Ladies' Singles Titles.[2]
In October 2010, Mahboob Khan became the first Pakistani female tennis player to qualify for the main draw of an ITF tournament outside Pakistan,[1] and the first to reach the quarter-final of an ITF tournament, achieving this in the doubles at Ain Sukhna, Egypt, partnering Irina Constantinide.[4][5][6]
In February 2011, Mahboob Khan made her debut in the Pakistan Fed Cup team, which was competing for the first time since 2000.
In May 2011, it was announced that she had signed for the tennis team of the University of New Mexico.[7]
[edit]References
- ^ a b c "Tribute to our Tennis Player & Tennis Coaching Program". Islamabad Club Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 04. Islamabad Club. October–December 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ a b "Sarah Mahboob Khan". Players Profile. Sindh Tennis Association. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ Raheel, Natasha (4 March 2011). "Female players to receive training in Dubai". The Express Tribune. The Express Tribune News Network. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ Nasreen, Gul (31 May 2011). "Sarah creates tennis history". You! Women's Magazine - Women power!. Jang Group Of Newspapers. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ "Sara qualifies for doubles quarterfinals of ITF Women's Pro Circuit (WTA Ranking)". News an
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