HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, Fall 2012-Summer 2013

Ho, A. D., Reich, J., Nesterko, S., Seaton, D. T., Mullaney, T., Waldo, J., & Chuang, I. (2014). HarvardX and MITx: The first year of open online courses (HarvardX and MITx Working Paper No. 1).

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Andrew Ho

Harvard University; Harvard University - Extension School

Justin Reich

Harvard University - HarvardX; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning

Sergiy Nesterko

Harvard University - HarvardX

Daniel Seaton

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning; Institutional Research

Tommy Mullaney

Harvard University - HarvardX

Jim Waldo

Harvard University; Harvard University - Extension School

Isaac Chuang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning; MIT

Date Written: January 21, 2014

Abstract

HarvardX and MITx are collaborative institutional efforts between Harvard University and MIT to enhance campus-based education, advance educational research, and increase access to online learning opportunities worldwide. Over the year from the fall of 2012 to the summer of 2013, HarvardX and MITx launched 17 courses on edX, a jointly founded platform for delivering massive open online courses (MOOCs). In that year, 43,196 registrants earned certificates of completion. Another 35,937 registrants explored half or more of course content without certification. An additional 469,702 registrants viewed less than half of the content. And 292,852 registrants never engaged with the online content. In total, there were 841,687 registrations from 597,692 unique users across the first year of HarvardX and MITx courses. This report is a joint effort by institutional units at Harvard and MIT to describe the registrant and course data provided by edX in the context of the diverse efforts and intentions of HarvardX and MITx instructor teams.

Keywords: MOOC, massive open online course, HarvardX, MITx, online learning, distance education, higher education

Suggested Citation

Ho, Andrew and Reich, Justin and Reich, Justin and Nesterko, Sergiy and Seaton, Daniel and Seaton, Daniel and Mullaney, Tommy and Waldo, Jim and Chuang, Isaac, HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, Fall 2012-Summer 2013 (January 21, 2014). Ho, A. D., Reich, J., Nesterko, S., Seaton, D. T., Mullaney, T., Waldo, J., & Chuang, I. (2014). HarvardX and MITx: The first year of open online courses (HarvardX and MITx Working Paper No. 1)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2381263 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2381263

Andrew Ho

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Harvard University - Extension School ( email )

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Justin Reich (Contact Author)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning ( email )

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Harvard University - HarvardX ( email )

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Sergiy Nesterko

Harvard University - HarvardX ( email )

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Daniel Seaton

Institutional Research ( email )

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning ( email )

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Tommy Mullaney

Harvard University - HarvardX ( email )

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Jim Waldo

Harvard University ( email )

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Harvard University - Extension School ( email )

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Isaac Chuang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning ( email )

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MIT ( email )

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