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A little over a year since Harvard and MIT joined forces to launch the not-for-profit online learning venture edX, Google has announced that it's to start working with edX to build an open MOOC (massive open online course) platform, hosted at MOOC.org.
一年多前，哈佛大學(xué)和麻省理工大學(xué)聯(lián)合推出了非營利性在線教育項目edX。日前，谷歌宣布開始與edX合作，創(chuàng)建一個大規(guī)模開放網(wǎng)絡(luò)課程（MOOC）平臺MOOC.org。
MOOC.org will be an online learning portal aimed at academic institutions, governments, businesses and individuals, allowing them to create and host online courses.
MOOC.org平臺目標(biāo)成為在線教育的門戶網(wǎng)站，集合學(xué)術(shù)機(jī)構(gòu)、政府、商業(yè)機(jī)構(gòu)以及個人的力量，幫助他們制作和維系在線課程。
The site isn't functional yet, though a provisional date of "the first half of 2014"has been given for launch.
盡管該網(wǎng)站暫時計劃于2014年上半年上線，但是目前功能還未開放。
Google will contribute to the development of the open edX platform, and follows its experimental Course Builder tool released last year, which has been used by universities and nonprofits to experiment with MOOCs.
谷歌將在開發(fā)上給予edX開放平臺幫助，并跟進(jìn)去年發(fā)布的Course Biulder實驗性課程制作工具，該工具已被一些大學(xué)和非營利組織用來開發(fā)過大規(guī)模開放網(wǎng)絡(luò)課程。
Google says it will continue to maintain Course Builder, but is "focusing its development efforts on Open edX".
谷歌稱將會繼續(xù)維系課程制作工具，但主要集中“為edX開放平臺的發(fā)展提供幫助”。
A little over a year since Harvard and MIT joined forces to launch the not-for-profit online learning venture edX, Google has announced that it's to start working with edX to build an open MOOC (massive open online course) platform, hosted at MOOC.org.
一年多前，哈佛大學(xué)和麻省理工大學(xué)聯(lián)合推出了非營利性在線教育項目edX。日前，谷歌宣布開始與edX合作，創(chuàng)建一個大規(guī)模開放網(wǎng)絡(luò)課程（MOOC）平臺MOOC.org。
MOOC.org will be an online learning portal aimed at academic institutions, governments, businesses and individuals, allowing them to create and host online courses.
MOOC.org平臺目標(biāo)成為在線教育的門戶網(wǎng)站，集合學(xué)術(shù)機(jī)構(gòu)、政府、商業(yè)機(jī)構(gòu)以及個人的力量，幫助他們制作和維系在線課程。
The site isn't functional yet, though a provisional date of "the first half of 2014"has been given for launch.
盡管該網(wǎng)站暫時計劃于2014年上半年上線，但是目前功能還未開放。
Google will contribute to the development of the open edX platform, and follows its experimental Course Builder tool released last year, which has been used by universities and nonprofits to experiment with MOOCs.
谷歌將在開發(fā)上給予edX開放平臺幫助，并跟進(jìn)去年發(fā)布的Course Biulder實驗性課程制作工具，該工具已被一些大學(xué)和非營利組織用來開發(fā)過大規(guī)模開放網(wǎng)絡(luò)課程。
Google says it will continue to maintain Course Builder, but is "focusing its development efforts on Open edX".
谷歌稱將會繼續(xù)維系課程制作工具，但主要集中“為edX開放平臺的發(fā)展提供幫助”。