ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx, ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû’s massive open online course (MOOC) provider, has surpassed ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû’s yearly on-campus enrolment, luring 300,000 new students from around the world.
Two ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx courses, THINK101x The Science of Everyday Thinking (with more than 127,000 students) and WRITE101x English Grammar and Style have had larger enrolments than ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû’s entire on-campus cohort.
ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx Director John Zornig said the global demand for quality learning was growing, as was the diversity of offerings.
“ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx strives to reflect the breadth of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû 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.
ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx has in the two years since ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû 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 ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx courses year round,” Mr Zornig said.
ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû 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.
ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx is producing exciting new MOOCs, including , and , to be released in November 2015.
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Media: Catherine Bennett, ÎçÒ¹¸£Àûx Course Project Manager, +61 7 3346 0850 or enquiries@uqx.uq.edu.au.
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