${_('About {span_start}{edX}{span_end}'.format(span_start='', span_end='', edX="edX"))}
${_("Open 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 with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth. 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. Anant Agarwal, former Director of {MIT}'s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of {edX}. {EdX}'s goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience. {EdX} is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by {MIT} and {Harvard}.").format(edX="edX", EdX="EdX", harvard_university="Harvard University", Harvard="Harvard", MIT="MIT", massachusetts_institute_of_technology="Massachusetts Institute of Technology")}