<P> In January 2013, Udacity launched its first MOOCs - for - credit, in collaboration with San Jose State University . In May 2013 the company announced the first entirely MOOC - based master's degree, a collaboration between Udacity, AT&T and the Georgia Institute of Technology, costing $7,000, a fraction of its normal tuition . </P> <P> Concerned about the commercialization of online education, in 2012 MIT created the not - for - profit MITx . The inaugural course, 6.002 x, launched in March 2012 . Harvard joined the group, renamed edX, that spring, and University of California, Berkeley joined in the summer . The initiative then added the University of Texas System, Wellesley College and Georgetown University . </P> <P> In September 2013, edX announced a partnership with Google to develop MOOC.org, a site for non-xConsortium groups to build and host courses . Google will work on the core platform development with edX partners . In addition, Google and edX will collaborate on research into how students learn and how technology can transform learning and teaching . MOOC.org will adopt Google's infrastructure . The Chinese Tsinghua University MOOC platform XuetangX.com (launched Oct. 2013) uses the Open edX platform . </P> <P> Before 2013 each MOOC tended to develop its own delivery platform . EdX in April 2013 joined with Stanford University, which previously had its own platform called Class2Go, to work on XBlock SDK, a joint open - source platform . It is available to the public under the Affero GPL open source license, which requires that all improvements to the platform be publicly posted and made available under the same license . Stanford Vice Provost John Mitchell said that the goal was to provide the "Linux of online learning ." This is unlike companies such as Coursera that have developed their own platform . </P>

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