BerkeleyX Milestones

2012

UC Berkeley 1st institution to join edX following founding by Harvard and MIT

2012-2020

Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost Paul Alivisatos serves on edX Board (previously Nick Dirks)

2012

EECS Professor Armando Fox offers one of the early courses on edX, and coins term SPOC (for campus MOOC

2012

Berkeley contributes open source discussion forums to edX

2012

Provost Breslauer, first chair of edX consortium and founding member of the edX University

2013

Advisory Board; Cathy Koshland current UAB member

2013

Berkeley (Fox) and MIT launch first 2 XSeries on edX (from courses to programs)

2016

Early MicroMasters program; member of MicroMasters working group helping to shape MicroMasters programs

2016

Two finalists for edX teaching prize - College Writing and Data Science Engineering

2018

Data Science SPOC pilot in collaboration with edX with San Jose City Community College;evolved into edX Online Campus

2021

4.5M enrollments, 116 courses