Why We Joined edX (Inside Higher Ed)

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In a recent blog entry for Inside Higher Ed, Josh Kim, director of digital learning programs, talks about Dartmouth’s new partnership with the online learning platform edX.

“We view our commitment to offer a small set of open online courses as part of a systematic and strategic effort to utilize technology to enrich our traditional model of teaching and learning,” writes Kim. “Specifically, we see joining the edX consortium as an opportunity to build competencies, skills, experience and the infrastructure necessary to create and improve digital materials that faculty can utilize in their teaching with our enrolled students.”

Read the full opinion piece, published 1/30/14 by Inside Higher Ed.