${_("What is {edX}?").format(edX="edX")}
${_('{EdX} is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners, the {MIT_long} ({MIT}) and {harvard_u} 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 www.edx.org for online education.').format(EdX="EdX", edX="edX", MIT_long="Massachusetts Institute of Technology", MIT="MIT", harvard_u="Harvard University")}
${_("{EdX} currently offers {HarvardX}, {MITx} and {BerkeleyX} classes online for free. Beginning in fall 2013, {edX} will offer {WellesleyX} , {GeorgetownX} and the {UTexas} classes online for free. The {UT} System includes nine universities and six health institutions. In 2014, {edX} will further expand its consortium, including several international schools, when it begins offering courses from {EPFL}, {McGill}, {Toronto}, {ANU}, {Delft}, and {Rice}. 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.").format(
EdX="EdX",
edX="edX",
HarvardX="HarvardX",
MITx="MITx",
BerkeleyX="BerkeleyX",
WellesleyX="WellesleyX",
GeorgetownX="GeorgetownX",
UTexas="University of Texas System",
UT="UT",
EPFL=u"École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne",
McGill="McGill University",
Toronto="University of Toronto",
ANU="Australian National University",
Delft="Delft University of Technology",
Rice="Rice University",
)}
${_("Will {edX} be adding additional X Universities?").format(edX="edX")}
${_("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_consortium} will be a forum in which members can share experiences around online learning. {Harvard}, {MIT}, {Berkeley}, the {UTexas} and the other {consortium} members will work collaboratively to establish the {x_consortium}, whose membership will expand to include additional \"{X_Universities}.\" As noted above, {edX}'s newest {consortium} members include {Wellesley}, {Georgetown}, {EPFL}, {McGill}, {Toronto}, {ANU}, {Delft}, and {Rice}. 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.").format(
EdX="EdX",
edX="edX",
Harvard="Harvard",
MIT="MIT",
x_consortium="\"X University\" Consortium",
consortium="consortium",
X_Universities="X Universities",
X_University="X University",
Berkeley="UC Berkeley",
Wellesley="Wellesley",
Georgetown="Georgetown",
UTexas="University of Texas System",
EPFL=u"École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne",
McGill="McGill University",
Toronto="University of Toronto",
ANU="Australian National University",
Delft="Delft University of Technology",
Rice="Rice University",
)}
${_("{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}\".").format(EdX="EdX", edX="edX", X_Universities="X Universities")}