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Course) organisations as edX.org, which is a collaborative eLearning service, with 12

prestigious universities and polytechnics around the world taking part in its develop-

ment. These universities include MiT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Harvard

University, Australian National University, EPA (École Polytechinque Fédérale de Lau-

sanne) amongst others. [6]

2.1 MOOC

The idea to look into MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) services came from Hannu

Markkanen, a teacher in Metropolia that has done research into the different eLearning

services available. According to Mr Markkanen, there are many eLearning services and

that MOOC programs, such as the EdX eLearning program, are provided by several

educational facilities around the world. At the moment, EdX.org is one of the leading

eLearning services available. A collaboration of 12 universities from around the world

and is available to anyone and everyone, EdX provides the most varied source educa-

tion on the internet, with courses ranging from quantum physics to architecture to med-

icine to the culinary arts. According to the EdX.org website, EdX is a non-profit enter-

prise that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. The

point of EdX is to create a new online-learning experience with the use of online cours-

es that reflect the disciplinary breadth of the enterprises founding partners, MiT and

Harvard University. EdX also aims at offering a multitude of varying online courses to

people of all ages, means and nations across the globe, the institutions use the EdX

platform to research “how students learn and how technology can transform learning –

both on-campus and worldwide.”. Figure 1 shows the homepage of the EdX.org web-

site. [6] [7]