What is edX?
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Written by Dhawal Shah | Last updated on March 19th, 2023
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EdX is an online education provider that offers online courses, popularly known as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses, from top universities, non-profit organizations, and institutions around the world. Founded by MIT and Harvard in 2012, it currently has 160+ partners from many countries.
EdX is the second most popular MOOC provider in the world based on the number of students (over 44 million learners) and has a current catalog of more than 3000 online courses.
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