谷歌聯手Edx推出免費教育平臺
A little over a year since Harvard and MIT joined forces to launch the not-for-profit online learning venture edX, Google has announced that it's to start working with edX to build an open MOOC (massive open online course) platform, hosted at .
一年多前，哈佛大學和麻省理工大學聯合推出了非營利性在線教育項目edX。日前，谷歌宣佈開始與edX合作，創建一個大規模開放網絡課程（MOOC）平臺。
will be an online learning portal aimed at academic institutions, governments, businesses and individuals, allowing them to create and host online courses.
平臺目標成爲在線教育的門戶網站，集合學術機構、政府、商業機構以及個人的力量，幫助他們製作和維繫在線課程。
The site isn't functional yet, though a provisional date of "the first half of 2014"has been given for launch.
儘管該網站暫時計劃於2014年上半年上線，但是目前功能還未開放。
Google will contribute to the development of the open edX platform, and follows its experimental Course Builder tool released last year, which has been used by universities and nonprofits to experiment with MOOCs.
谷歌將在開發上給予edX開放平臺幫助，並跟進去年發佈的Course Biulder實驗性課程製作工具，該工具已被一些大學和非營利組織用來開發過大規模開放網絡課程。
Google says it will continue to maintain Course Builder, but is "focusing its development efforts on Open edX".
谷歌稱將會繼續維繫課程製作工具，但主要集中“爲edX開放平臺的發展提供幫助”。
