Â鶹ÊÓƵx, Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Queensland’s massive open online course (MOOC) provider, has surpassed Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s yearly on-campus enrolment, luring 300,000 new students from around the world.
Two Â鶹ÊÓƵx courses, THINK101x The Science of Everyday Thinking (with more than 127,000 students) and WRITE101x English Grammar and Style have had larger enrolments than Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s entire on-campus cohort.
Â鶹ÊÓƵx Director John Zornig said the global demand for quality learning was growing, as was the diversity of offerings.
“Â鶹ÊÓƵx strives to reflect the breadth of Â鶹ÊÓƵ as a leading research and teaching university through our catalogue of courses, and we are pleased at the response from the global learner community,” Mr Zornig said.
Â鶹ÊÓƵx has in the two years since Â鶹ÊÓƵ joined the .
The largest number of students have hailed from the United States, India and Australia.
“New courses and re-runs of popular courses will ensure that MOOC learners have a choice of engaging Â鶹ÊÓƵx courses year round,” Mr Zornig said.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Queensland is a charter member of , one of the world’s leading providers of MOOCs.
edX was founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 and offers free online education using cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy and rigorous courses.
Â鶹ÊÓƵx is producing exciting new MOOCs, including , and , to be released in November 2015.
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Media: Catherine Bennett, Â鶹ÊÓƵx Course Project Manager, +61 7 3346 0850 or enquiries@uqx.uq.edu.au.
