The NIIT and edX, the non-profit global leader in online learning co-founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), entered into a strategic partnership to re-define the online education space in India. Through this partnership NIIT and edX aim to create high-impact learning experiences for learners by offering MOOC model that provides an engaging and live interactive experience that goes much beyond the core MOOC content. The partnership was announced by Rajendra Pawar, chairman NIIT and Anant Agarwal, CEO edX and MIT professor.
Under this partnership the live synchronous delivery capability and on-ground student servicing capability of NIIT will be combined with the world class MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) provided by edX and its university partners to offer futuristic talent development programmes to learners in India. To start with, programmes aligned to the changing future-skill-sets requirement of the industry in areas like Programming using Python from MIT, HTMl5 from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Data Science and Analytics from Columbia University, and Data Science and Engineering with Spark from University of California, Berkeley will be offered jointly by NIIT and edX. These could be availed by students at college, recent graduates or working professionals looking to up skill themselves.