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1 July 2015

Õ¬Äе¼º½x, Õ¬Äе¼º½’s massive open online course (MOOC) provider, has surpassed Õ¬Äе¼º½’s yearly on-campus enrolment, luring 300,000 new students from around the world.

Two Õ¬Äе¼º½x courses, THINK101x The Science of Everyday Thinking (with more than 127,000 students) and WRITE101x English Grammar and Style have had larger enrolments than Õ¬Äе¼º½’s entire on-campus cohort.

Õ¬Äе¼º½x Director John Zornig said the global demand for quality learning was growing, as was the diversity of offerings.

“Õ¬Äе¼º½x strives to reflect the breadth of Õ¬Äе¼º½ as a leading research and teaching university through our catalogue of courses, and we are pleased at the response from the global learner community,” Mr Zornig said.

Õ¬Äе¼º½x has in the two years since Õ¬Äе¼º½ joined the .

The largest number of students have hailed from the United States, India and Australia.

“New courses and re-runs of popular courses will ensure that MOOC learners have a choice of engaging Õ¬Äе¼º½x courses year round,” Mr Zornig said.

Õ¬Äе¼º½ is a charter member of , one of the world’s leading providers of MOOCs.

edX was founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 and offers free online education using cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy and rigorous courses.

Õ¬Äе¼º½x is producing exciting new MOOCs, including , and , to be released in November 2015.

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Media: Catherine Bennett, Õ¬Äе¼º½x Course Project Manager, +61 7 3346 0850 or enquiries@uqx.uq.edu.au.