Doctoral Dissertation Research: Platformizing Higher Education: EdX and the Promise of MOOC Infrastructure

在麻省理工学院格雷厄姆·琼斯教授的指导下，博士生Shreeharst Kelkar将学习EdX，这是一家由麻省理工学院和哈佛大学联合创立的非营利性在线学习公司，重点关注围绕这一基础设施组成的三个社区--程序员和计算机科学家、教育工作者和学习科学家--他们通过编码软件、制作在线课程软件和分析在线学生活动来生产基础设施。这个项目将导致对MOOC(大规模开源在线课程)的更好理解。因此，大学管理人员和教职员工在考虑部署MOOC来解决美国高等教育的课程问题时，将获得更好的信息。

Under the supervision of Prof. Graham Jones of MIT, Ph.D. student Shreeharsh Kelkar will study edX, a non-profit online learning enterprise jointly founded by MIT and Harvard, focusing on three communities that have organized around this infrastructure--programmers and computer scientists, educators, and learning scientists--as they go about producing the infrastructure by coding software, making online course-ware and analyzing online student activity. This project will result in a better understanding of MOOCS (Massive Open Source Online Courses). University administrators and faculty will be better informed as a result as they consider deploying MOOCs to address curricula in US higher education.