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Global MOOC and Online Education Conference 2024

Theme: “Reimagining the Future of Higher Education in the Intelligence Era

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Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance key activities

Global MOOC and Online Education 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 and Online Education Alliance members

Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance is a small and diverse group of world-leading universities and online education platforms from across countries in all six continents and speaks over ten different languages.

Global MOOC Alliance was initiated by Tsinghua University in 2020, and co-founded by Cornell University, CRI (Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity; later renamed as “LPI, Learning Planet Institue”), 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.

Articles that you may be interested in:

“UNAM does not stop”

Melchor Sánchez Mendiola, Coordination of Open Education, Educational Innovation, and Distance Education at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and a new Executive Committee member of the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA), outlined…
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University of Nairobi hosted the International Institute of Online Education (IIOE) Kenya National Centre Launch Ceremony

On 25 April, the International Institute of Online Education (IIOE) Kenya National Centre launch ceremony was successfully held. The launch was jointly organised by UNESCO-ICHEI, UNESCO Priority Africa and External Relations Sector, UNESCO Regional Office…
Read More University of Nairobi hosted the International Institute of Online Education (IIOE) Kenya National Centre Launch Ceremony

GMA Secretariat, Tsinghua University, and XuetangX Visited Korea and Thailand to Strengthen Cooperation Among GMA Members and Explore Further Collaboration

Between March 11th and 12th, Wang Xiaoxiao, Secretary-General of Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA), and Wang Shaiguo, CEO of XuetangX, led a delegation from the GMA Secretariat, Tsinghua University, and XuetangX to meet…
Read More GMA Secretariat, Tsinghua University, and XuetangX Visited Korea and Thailand to Strengthen Cooperation Among GMA Members and Explore Further Collaboration

Unraveling and Embracing Al in Higher Education: Practices · Opportunities · Challenges · Future

The first session of the 2023 Online Education Dialogue (OED) with the theme “Navigating Al-Driven Digital Transformation in Higher Education” was successfully held on May 17th. Co-hosted by the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA), Tsinghua University, XuetangX and UNESCO International Centre…
Read More Unraveling and Embracing Al in Higher Education: Practices · Opportunities · Challenges · Future

“Disabled, disadvantaged, introverted and international students may all appreciate ongoing online options”, says senior lecturer from the University of Manchester

As the third university year of the Covid era nears its end in the northern hemisphere, things are starting, finally, to feel as if they are getting back to normal. But even as we in universities…
Read More “Disabled, disadvantaged, introverted and international students may all appreciate ongoing online options”, says senior lecturer from the University of Manchester

Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) won top leadership prize for its “outstanding rate and quality of development”

Two of the co-founding members of the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance have done well amid stiff competition for Times Higher Education’s awards for Asian institutions, with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) taking home the top prize…
Read More Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) won top leadership prize for its “outstanding rate and quality of development”

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