WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue University will partner with global leader edX, the nonprofit learning destination founded by MIT and Harvard, through a two-year agreement to begin offering a lineup of selected Purdue courses to anyone anytime with an Internet connection.
The first PurdueX courses, being developed by Purdue NExT and nanoHUB-U, will roll out this spring through the agreement with edX, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based leader of so-called “massively open online courses,” or MOOCs.
The Purdue-led nanoHUB-U will develop five nanotechnology courses through 2016, and Purdue NExT, which has a stable of nearly 40 online courses, will lead development of five new courses for edX. Purdue also is soliciting faculty participants to develop other courses that may be appropriate for offering through this platform.
