Tsinghua UNiversity & UNESCO IITE
Global MOOC Conference
“Learning Revolution & Higher Education Transformation”
December 9-11, 2020
Global MOOC Alliance key activities
Global MOOC Alliance serves as a mechanism for exchange and cooperation, providing leadership of global higher education efforts to address digital education challenges and to implement practical policies in local communities and around the world. Key activities include:
Global MOOC Alliance members
Global MOOC Alliance is a small and diverse group of 17 world-leading universities and 3 online education platforms from across 14 countries in all 6 continents and speaks 10 different languages.
Global MOOC Alliance is initiated by Tsinghua University, and co-founded by Cornell University, CRI (Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity), edX, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Peking University, Politecnico di Milano, Rice University, RWTH Aachen University, Saint Petersburg University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Thai MOOC, Tsinghua University, University of Auckland, University of Chile, University of Manchester, University of Nairobi, University of Toronto, XuetangX, Zhejiang University.
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