EDX platform becomes EAD global
14
Sep
Founded in 2012 by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the distance learning platform EDX, announced last Tuesday (10/09) a partnership with the search giant Google.
The Moorc.org, provide a tool for universities, teachers, governments as well as corporate environments to host his own courses and offers them to the general public.
The site should be launched in the first half of 2014 and will be operated by EDX Open, being made open source by Google and will be worked EDX, Harvard and MIT.
The platform will compete with the more educational environment that is currently used MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment), created in 2001 by educator and computer scientist Martin Dougiamas.
MOODLE uses a Web server with PHP support (can be Apache or IIS).
The EDX uses the concept of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) which is a more current development
in the area of distance education because it embodies the ideals of open education suggested by OER (Open Educational recourses) which is incorporated concepts of open dissemination of educational resources .
Not to be confused with the MOOC DE is an experience-oriented and collaborative knowledge building, done in Portuguese.
The University of São Paulo and the portal Veduca launch this week, the first Mooc (virtual courses, free and top level) of Latin America.
