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Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

EdX will build on both universities’ experience in offering online instructional content. The technological platform recently established by MITx, which will serve as the foundation for the new learning system, was designed to offer online versions of MIT courses featuring video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories, and student paced learning. Certificates of mastery will be available for those motivated and able to demonstrate their knowledge of the course material.

MIT and Harvard expect that over time other universities will join them in offering courses on the edX platform. The gathering of many universities’ educational content together on one site will enable learners worldwide to access the course content of any participating university from a single website, and to use a set of online educational tools shared by all participating universities.

EdX will release its learning platform as open source software so it can be used by other universities and organizations who wish to host the platform themselves. Because the learning technology will be available as open-source software, other universities and individuals will be able to help edX improve and add features to the technology.

MIT and Harvard will use the jointly operated edX platform to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on-campus and online. The edX platform will enable the study of which teaching methods and tools are most successful. The findings of this research will be used to inform how faculty use technology in their teaching, which will enhance the experience for students on campus and for the millions expected to take advantage of these new online offerings.

“EdX represents a unique opportunity to improve education on our own campuses through online learning, while simultaneously creating a bold new educational path for millions of learners worldwide,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said.

Harvard President Drew Faust said, “edX gives Harvard and MIT an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically extend our collective reach by conducting groundbreaking research into effective education and by extending online access to quality higher education.”

“Harvard and MIT will use these new technologies and the research they will make possible to lead the direction of online learning in a way that benefits our students, our peers, and people across the nation and the globe,” Faust continued.

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Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

EdX will build on both universities’ experience in offering online instructional content. The technological platform recently established by MITx, which will serve as the foundation for the new learning system, was designed to offer online versions of MIT courses featuring video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories, and student paced learning. Certificates of mastery will be available for those motivated and able to demonstrate their knowledge of the course material.

MIT and Harvard expect that over time other universities will join them in offering courses on the edX platform. The gathering of many universities’ educational content together on one site will enable learners worldwide to access the course content of any participating university from a single website, and to use a set of online educational tools shared by all participating universities.

EdX will release its learning platform as open source software so it can be used by other universities and organizations who wish to host the platform themselves. Because the learning technology will be available as open-source software, other universities and individuals will be able to help edX improve and add features to the technology.

MIT and Harvard will use the jointly operated edX platform to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on-campus and online. The edX platform will enable the study of which teaching methods and tools are most successful. The findings of this research will be used to inform how faculty use technology in their teaching, which will enhance the experience for students on campus and for the millions expected to take advantage of these new online offerings.

“EdX represents a unique opportunity to improve education on our own campuses through online learning, while simultaneously creating a bold new educational path for millions of learners worldwide,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said.

Harvard President Drew Faust said, “edX gives Harvard and MIT an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically extend our collective reach by conducting groundbreaking research into effective education and by extending online access to quality higher education.”

“Harvard and MIT will use these new technologies and the research they will make possible to lead the direction of online learning in a way that benefits our students, our peers, and people across the nation and the globe,” Faust continued.

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Audiovisual culture impacted heavily on distance learning projects and initiatives, corporate virtual trainingduring 2011. 13 experts are saying, and mentioned cases may serve as a foundation for the growth of the trend.

A Forbes magazine study found that 60% of the people who make business decisions rather watch videosthan read texts online, and 90% of those surveyed watch videos online much more than a year ago.

In parallel, a survey conducted by Video Arts said the video clip is being incorporated into training instances, to attract students and improve their performance. Without a doubt, extremely important data to be consideredin designing corporate training strategies by 2012.

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We explore the achievements of mobile learning in 2011 and the prospects for the method for this coming year. The results of the Tomorrow Project polls and Elearnity Insights, along with input from 15 experts from the U.S., Spain, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, frame a high-impact coral analysis. 5 billion cell phones in the world, bound as the communication device and information used, ensure that training continues to the people and not the job.

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What were the main achievements of the virtual training in 2011? What challenges will face the sector fromnext year? What are the market prospects for the immediate future of the industry? What the experts to identifyinnovations coming months? 17 specialists from the United States, Chile, Brazil, Spain, Guatemala, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru were surveyed by America Learning & Media, in order to offer our readersdifferent views and perspectives.

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International collaboration realizes numerous initiatives to promote and strengthen the e-learning. The question is: Is the user able to convey the potential of the new reality?, Or actually seeing a dispersion of efforts to show us in a sea of ??noise coming from different places. Also, how does the development of new teaching techniques can be boosted withthe exchange of experiences leading speakers and institutions in each of these initiatives?

Perhaps the most important question that arises is: what is the best way we can reinforcean international dissemination of e-learning?

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What in your opinion the most interesting feature or trend in online education these days?

Morten Flate Paulsen: As coordinator of the European Megatrends Project, identified themegatrend most evident in online education was the development of small-scaleexperiments to large scale operations. Successful online education should be robust and sustainable. I worry so much that online education has been transient, with no success and far from sustainable. Therefore, the project identified and analyzed 26megaproveedores European e-Learning to 10 initiatives prominent e-Learning, which did not achieve outstanding goals.

The 26 successful megaproveedores we analyzed had more than 100 courses andenrollments 5 000 in 2005. Representing 11 European countries included 8 distance education institutions, 13 universities and university consortia, and 5 corporate trainingproviders. From a sustainability perspective, it is worth noting that some mega onlineeducation providers have offered for over 20 years. Five of them started with e-Learning in the 80's, and 10 in the 90's. The largest supplier, Learn Direct, claimed to have 400 000enrollments in 2005. It is also interesting to note that among the six top-ranked institutionsno universities, corporate training providers only and distance education institutions.

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The Knowledge Society tends to democratize knowledge. Free licensing movements, where the property is no longer central, but it created is accessible to the community, proliferate today. LEARNING REVIEW has investigated how this trend applies to educational resources.

The movement of the Open Educational Resources (OER or OER, its acronym in English) is basically the initiative to share digitized in an open and free for use in teaching, learning and research for educators and students around the world.

The term was first adopted by UNESCO in 2002, Forum on the Impact of Open CourseWare for Higher Education in Developing Countries, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, an institution that provides large subsidies to educational and cultural institutions. There was defined as "REA are a resource for teaching, learning and research, which reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license allows your use is free for other people. These include: full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, videos, tests, software and other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge".

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