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Merge pull request #1098 from MITx/content/rocha/wellesley-announcmenent 

Add Wellesley College news announcement and frontpage changes
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<title>EdX Blog</title>
<updated>2012-10-14T14:08:12-07:00</updated>
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<id>tag:www.edx.org,2012:Post/8</id>
<published>2012-12-04T14:00:00-07:00</published>
<updated>2012-12-04T14:00:00-07:00</updated>
<link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="${reverse('press/wellesley-college-joins-edx')}"/>
<title>Wellesley College joins edX</title>
<content type="html">&lt;img src=&quot;${static.url('images/press/releases/wellesley-seal_240x180.png')}&quot; /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First liberal arts college to join edX&lt;/p&gt;</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<id>tag:www.edx.org,2012:Post/7</id>
<published>2012-11-12T14:00:00-07:00</published>
<updated>2012-11-12T14:00:00-07:00</updated>
<link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="${reverse('press/gates-foundation-announcement')}"/>
<title>edX and Massachusetts Community Colleges join in Gates-Funded educational initiative</title>
<content type="html">&lt;img src=&quot;${static.url('images/press/releases/mass_seal_240x180.png')}&quot; /&gt;
<content type="html">&lt;img src=&quot;${static.url('images/press/releases/mass-seal_240x180.png')}&quot; /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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lms/templates/index.html
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</div>
</a>
</li>
<li class="partner last">
<li class="partner">
<a href="${reverse('university_profile', args=['UTx'])}">
<img src="${static.url('images/university/ut/ut-rollover_160x90.png')}" />
<div class="name">
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</div>
</a>
</li>
<li class="partner last">
<a href="${reverse('university_profile', args=['WellesleyX'])}">
<img src="${static.url('images/university/wellesley/wellesley-rollover_160x90.png')}" />
<div class="name">
<span>WellesleyX</span>
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</a>
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</ol>
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<p>edX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University that offers online learning to on-campus students and to millions of people around the world. To do so, edX is building an open-source online learning platform and hosts an online web portal at <a href="http://www.edx.org">www.edx.org</a> for online education.</p>
<p>EdX currently offers HarvardX, <em>MITx</em> and BerkeleyX classes online for free. Beginning in Summer 2013, edX will also offer UTx (University of Texas) classes online for free. The University of Texas System includes nine universities and six health institutions. The edX institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online students. Along with offering online courses, the three universities undertake research on how students learn and how technology can transform learning – both on-campus and online throughout the world.</p>
</article>
<article class="response">
<h3>Why is Wellesley College joining edX?</h3>
<p>Wellesley College brings a long history, nearly 150 years, of providing liberal arts courses of the highest quality. WellesleyX courses, and the creativity and innovation of the Wellesley faculty, will provide a new perspective from which the hundreds of thousands of edX learners can benefit. </p>
<p>Wellesley’s unique, highly personalized, discussion-based learning experience and its commitment to providing pedagogical innovation will mesh with ongoing research into how students learn and how technology can transform learning both on-campus and online. </p>
<p>As with all consortium members, the values of Wellesley are aligned with those of edX. Wellesley and edX are both committed to expanding access to education to learners of all ages, means, and backgrounds. Both institutions are also committed to the non-profit model.</p>
</article>
<article class="response">
<h3>Why is The University of Texas System joining edX?</h3>
<p>Joining edX not only allows UT faculty to showcase their work on a global stage, but also provides UT students the opportunity to take classes from their choice of UT institutions, as well as MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley and future &ldquo;X&rdquo; Universities.</p>
<p>The UT System closely examined all the alternatives and determined that edX offered the best fit in terms of alignment of mission, platform and revenue model. The strength and reputation of the partner institutions – MIT, Harvard and UC Berkeley – was also a huge consideration. EdX is committed to both blended and online learning and to a non-profit, open source model. It is also governed by a board of academics with a commitment to excellence in learning.</p>
<h3>Wellesley is the first women’s college to offer courses through a massive open online course (MOOC) platform. What does this mean for the world of online learning?</h3>
<p>Wellesley is currently the only women’s college that has announced plans to offer courses through a massive open online course (MOOC) platform. Wellesley’s commitment to educating women to be leaders in their fields, their communities, and the world provides a unique opportunity for edX learners who come from virtually every nation around the world. Women who have had limited access to education, regardless of where they live, will have access to the best courses, taught by the best faculty, from the best women’s college in the world. The potential for a life-changing educational experience for women has never been as great.</p>
</article>
<article class="response">
<h3>What will The UT System’s direct participation entail?</h3>
<p>The UT System will begin by offering one course on edX from The University of Texas at Austin in Summer 2013, and four courses in Fall 2013, likely at least one of those courses from one of its health institutions. The UT System is also making a $5 million investment in the edX platform. We will explore, experiment and innovate together.</p>
<h3>How many WellesleyX courses will be offered initially? When?</h3>
<p>Initially, WellesleyX will begin offering edX courses in the fall of 2013. The courses, which will offer students the opportunity to explore classic liberal arts and sciences as well as other subjects, will be of the same high quality and rigor as those offered on the Wellesley campus.</p>
</article>
<article class="response">
<h3>Will edX be adding additional X Universities?</h3>
<p>More than 140 institutions from around the world have expressed interest in collaborating with edX since Harvard and MIT announced its creation in May. EdX is focused above all on quality and developing the best not-for-profit model for online education. In addition to providing online courses on the edX platform, the &ldquo;X University&rdquo; Consortium will be a forum in which members can share experiences around online learning. Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley and the UT System will work collaboratively to establish the &ldquo;X University&rdquo; Consortium, whose membership will expand to include additional &ldquo;X Universities&rdquo; as soon as possible. Each member of the consortium will offer courses on the edX platform as an &ldquo;X University.&rdquo; The gathering of many universities’ educational content together on one site will enable learners worldwide to access the course content of any participating university from a single website, and to use a set of online educational tools shared by all participating universities.</p>
<p>EdX will actively explore the addition of other institutions from around the world to the edX platform, and we look forward to adding more &ldquo;X Universities&rdquo; as capacity increases. </p>
<h3>Will edX be adding additional X Universities?</h3>
<p>More than 200 institutions from around the world have expressed interest in collaborating with edX since Harvard and MIT announced its creation in May. EdX is focused above all on quality and developing the best not-for-profit model for online education. In addition to providing online courses on the edX platform, the “X University” Consortium will be a forum in which members can share experiences around online learning. Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, the University of Texas system and the other consortium members will work collaboratively to establish the “X University” Consortium, whose membership will expand to include additional “X Universities”. Each member of the consortium will offer courses on the edX platform as an “X University.” The gathering of many universities’ educational content together on one site will enable learners worldwide to access the offered course content of any participating university from a single website, and to use a set of online educational tools shared by all participating universities.</p>
<p>edX will actively explore the addition of other institutions from around the world to the edX platform, and looks forward to adding more “X Universities.”</p>
</article>
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<%! from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse %>
<%inherit file="../../main.html" />
<%namespace name='static' file='../../static_content.html'/>
<%block name="title"><title>Wellesley College joins edX</title></%block>
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fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
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<section class="pressrelease">
<section class="container">
<h1>Wellesley College becomes first liberal arts college to join edX</h1>
<hr class="horizontal-divider"/>
<article>
<h2>Wellesley joins edX to advance learning collaborative, broadens course options while bringing a unique small classroom experience to the world of massive open online courses</h2>
<p><strong>CAMBRIDGE, MA &ndash; December 04, 2012</strong> &mdash; edX, the online learning initiative founded by <a href="http://harvard.edu">Harvard University</a> and the <a href="http://www.mit.edu">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT) and launched in May, announced today the addition of Wellesley College to its group of educational leaders who are focused on providing a category-leading quality higher education experience to the global online community. <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu">Wellesley College</a> is the first liberal arts college to join edX—and the first women’s college to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs). Wellesley College will provide a series of WellesleyX courses to the platform that are unique to the College and broaden the course offerings on edx.org.</p>
<p>According to H. Kim Bottomly, President of Wellesley College, WellesleyX provides an opportunity for the College to impact the future of higher education. “Wellesley is ready to contribute our liberal arts perspective to help shape online education, particularly as colleges work to figure out how to bring the small classroom experience to the online learning landscape. We are convinced that Wellesley and its outstanding faculty have the creativity and vision to take on this challenge.”</p>
<p>Bottomly added, “This is a grand experiment, and what we learn will benefit Wellesley students as well as students all over the world.</p>
<p>Regarded as one of the world’s finest colleges, Wellesley is known for cultivating generations of women leaders; its pedagogical innovation; and its commitment to highly personalized, discussion-based learning. With the launch of WellesleyX, the College will open access to its rigorous courses and distinguished faculty to anyone with an internet connection.</p>
<p>“We are excited that Wellesley College has chosen to join with edX,” said Anant Agarwal, President of edX. “Wellesley’s long history of educating women leaders in diplomacy, the arts, science and business provides a unique strength. We look forward to working alongside the Wellesley faculty to extend their reach to hundreds of thousands of women and men around the world.”</p>
<p>Through edX, the “X Universities” will provide interactive education wherever there is access to the Internet and will enhance teaching and learning through research about how students learn, and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on-campus and online. The University of California, Berkeley joined edX in July and the University of Texas System joined in October.</p>
<p>“Wellesley College is a welcome addition to edX and our efforts to fully realize the potential of online education for students on campus and online,” said Harvard President Drew Faust. “As an institution that has provided an outstanding educational experience to many thousands of women for over 100 years, Wellesley brings to edX both a unique academic perspective and a commitment to excellence in education.”</p>
<p>“Wellesley College's decision to join the edX platform is excellent news for edX and for the platform's growing number of users around the world,” said MIT President L. Rafael Reif. “Wellesley brings a distinctive history that will further enrich the efforts we are making to tailor instruction to the different ways by which people learn.”</p>
<p>WellesleyX will offer four courses on edX beginning in the fall of 2013. All of the courses will be hosted from edX’s innovative platform at <a href="http://www.edx.org">www.edx.org</a>.</p>
<h2>About edX</h2>
<p>edX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions the founders are creating a new online-learning experience. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning—both on-campus and worldwide. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.</p>
<h2>About Wellesley College</h2>
<p>Since 1875, Wellesley College has been the preeminent liberal arts college for women. Known for its intellectual rigor and its remarkable track record for the cultivation of women leaders in every arena, Wellesley—only 12 miles from Boston—is home to some 2300 undergraduates from every state and 75 countries.</p>
<section class="contact">
<p><strong>Contact: </strong>Amanda Keane</p>
<p>akeane@webershandwick.com</p>
<p>617-520-7260</p>
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<img src="${static.url('images/social/twitter-sharing.png')}"/>
</a>
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<img src="${static.url('images/social/email-sharing.png')}"/>
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lms/templates/university_profile/wellesleyx.html 0 → 100644
<%inherit file="base.html" />
<%namespace name='static' file='../static_content.html'/>
<%block name="title"><title>WellesleyX</title></%block>
<%block name="university_header">
<header class="search" style="background: url('/static/images/university/wellesley/wellesley-cover_2025x550.jpg')">
<div class="inner-wrapper university-search">
<hgroup>
<div class="logo">
<img src="${static.url('images/university/wellesley/wellesley.png')}" />
</div>
<h1>WellesleyX</h1>
</hgroup>
</div>
</header>
</%block>
<%block name="university_description">
<p>Since 1875, Wellesley College has been the preeminent liberal arts college for women. Known for its intellectual rigor and its remarkable track record for the cultivation of women leaders in every arena, Wellesley—only 12 miles from Boston—is home to some 2300 undergraduates from every state and 75 countries.</p>
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${parent.body()}
lms/urls.py
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url(r'^heartbeat$', include('heartbeat.urls')),
url(r'^university_profile/UTx$', 'courseware.views.static_university_profile', name="static_university_profile", kwargs={'org_id':'UTx'}),
url(r'^university_profile/WellesleyX$', 'courseware.views.static_university_profile', name="static_university_profile", kwargs={'org_id':'WellesleyX'}),
url(r'^university_profile/(?P<org_id>[^/]+)$', 'courseware.views.university_profile', name="university_profile"),
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{'template': 'press_releases/Cengage_to_provide_book_content.html'}, name="press/cengage-to-provide-book-content"),
url(r'^press/gates-foundation-announcement$', 'static_template_view.views.render',
{'template': 'press_releases/Gates_Foundation_announcement.html'}, name="press/gates-foundation-announcement"),
url(r'^press/wellesley-college-joins-edx$', 'static_template_view.views.render',
{'template': 'press_releases/Wellesley_College_joins_edX.html'}, name="press/wellesley-college-joins-edx"),
# Should this always update to point to the latest press release?
(r'^pressrelease$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url': '/press/uc-berkeley-joins-edx'}),
(r'^pressrelease$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url': '/press/wellesley-college-joins-edx'}),
(r'^favicon\.ico$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url': '/static/images/favicon.ico'}),
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