China’s Tsinghua University turns pandemic into reform opportunity
15-member team migrated all classes online half a month after COVID struck
edX and 2U to Join Together in Industry-Redefining Combination
2U to acquire substantially all edX assets, including edX brand, website, and marketplace Together, 2U and edX will reach over 50 million learners, serve more than 230 partners, and offer over 3,500 digital programs on…
Chinese and South African universities reaffirm commitment to SDGs
Zhejiang University (ZJU), also a member of the Global MOOC Alliance, and the University of Cape Town (UCT) renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and inked a new university-wide student exchange agreement during a virtual conference…
Education Quality Agency and UChile discuss the future of school education in pandemic
Researchers from the University of Chile (a member of the Global MOOC Alliance) discussed the results of the Comprehensive Learning Diagnosis (in Spanish) and the “Life in a Pandemic” study (in Spanish), through which both…
OED 2021 Session 3 – RWTH Aachen & SJTU & Nazarbayev
After curating over 140 presentations and webinars in 2020, this year’s OED aims to focus on capacity and community building for “digital learning officers” through a workshop training series and MOOC courses. This webinar aims…
Webinar: “When to Schedule Attention Instrument for learning: A Field Experiment”
Organizer: Global MOOC Alliance Secretariat (Tsinghua University) Time: Thursday, Jun 24, 2021 16:00 – 17:00 PM in Beijing (GMT+8) How to improve students’ engagement and performance is a central question in education and it becomes…
Peking University deepens cooperation on area studies with German universities
On June 7, Peking University (a member of the Global MOOC Alliance), the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Tübingen held an online signing ceremony of a tripartite cooperation agreement on area studies….
The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want
A timely set of essays from key thinkers from the Great Transition Initiative (GTI). The times call for pedagogies that cultivate integrated knowledge and global citizenship, yet we continue to educate for a world we…
Tsinghua University and Leibniz University Hannover to launch Dual Master’s Degree Program
Tsinghua University (a member of the Global MOOC Alliance) and Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) reached an agreement to launch a Dual Master’s Degree Program in Resources and Environment at an online ceremony on May 29….
Rice’s popular edtech initiative expands opportunities for education tech providers
Rice University (a member of the Global MOOC Alliance) aims to expand its partnerships with technology providers by introducing an application that will bring greater access and transparency to the process of becoming an OpenStax…
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