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The MITx team continues in its efforts to engage with stakeholders at MIT, edX, and other edX institutions to inform its efforts to identify the needs of MIT faculty and students for library and information services and to begin to scope the changes and effort required by the Libraries to support MITx.
Activities and Accomplishments
Activity over the past few months continued to focus on learning more about MITx and edX, reaching out to other edX institutions, and educating others about our efforts.
Activities and Accomplishments
Beginning in July the team has been investigating MITx, edX, and the larger landscape of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The initiative is fast moving, involves high level members of the MIT community, and many policy questions remain open. Since the adoption of this strategic objective by Library Council, MITx has become edX in collaboration with Harvard, and most recently the University of California at Berkeley has joined edX. Efforts to date have focused on reaching out to key faculty and staff at MIT, edX, and Harvard to learn more about current activities and future plans. Because this effort is an "investigation" it was decided that planning activities should be located within the RIS Leadership Team with the understanding that other RIS staff as well as staff from other directorates will be involved as appropriate.