We welcome those conversations, and I’m happy to have them, as are many of our team members. Q: If we have MIT community members who have not already engaged with Axim, what is the opportunity for contact? If people have ideas for a project they want to pursue, should they get in touch to see what’s feasible?Ī: Absolutely. From CSAIL to MIT Open Learning and other groups, there is faculty interest, which we welcome, to consider how we can apply great ideas, innovation, and research to fuel this work and make a difference for others. I’ve been just so excited about the MIT faculty I’ve already spoken with, their ideas and commitment to learning, and their thinking about different ways of teaching and learning and advising. What is the nature of the collaboration you foresee between Axim and MIT?Ī: There’s a lot of opportunity for collaboration. Q: As you mentioned, MIT does have a broad and longstanding interest in this field, including the formation of edX, but also extending back to MIT OpenCourseWare before that. How can we help the institutions who are serving them to engage those students and help them persist? These are learners and students who might not the same resources, and they still have the same aspirations many others do. Q: Is it fair to say that is a distinctive point of emphasis here, the focus on underserved groups of students, with less access, on nontraditional paths?Ī: Over 80 percent of learners aren’t in full-time residential four-year universities. We want to do this in partnership with other institutions who support those goals. Axim Collaborative is about access, though the collaborative part is an essential piece. That idea of impact by furthering outcomes is something we care about. Do not just take one course pursue a course pathway, stay in it because you have a community that cares about you, a meaningful career path. So, Axim Collaborative aims to expand access, and deepen the impact. With the sale of edX to 2U and the creation of Axim Collaborative, it generated the opportunity to extend that commitment to access: How can we open doors more widely to students and learners who may not have a degree or credential but would benefit from that? And there was a full market to be pursued, particularly of people who already had a degree and were looking to augment their learning. As we know, edX was founded in 2012 by Harvard and MIT, with the idea of making learning accessible for all. Q: What is Axim Collaborative, and what are your objectives?Ī: Axim Collaborative was born out of the vision of edX and this idea that we can reach more learners through online education. MIT News sat down with Khurana to discuss Axim Collaborative. She has been managing partner and COO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global philanthropy served on the boards of Generation, Propel America, Braven, EdBuild, Empower Schools, and Kinvolved and worked for the tech startups Cambridge Technology Partners and Surebridge. Khurana has extensive experience in entrepreneurship, education, and philanthropy. The initiative recently named Stephanie Khurana as its founding CEO. Axim Collaborative is a nonprofit funded with the $700 million the two institutions received for the sale of edX, the online learning platform they founded in 2012. MIT and Harvard University are teaming up on a new online education initiative: Axim Collaborative, a venture designed to make learning more accessible, effective, and relevant so that learners can reach their full potential.
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