Iversity, a Berlin-based MOOC platform, has launched, and is to award ten €25k fellowships to fund the production of first online courses to universities.
The platform, originally founded as a digital collaboration campus in 2011, has since rebranded itself as a MOOC provider. It has opened up the €250k challenge to individual and groups of university professors until the end of April, and plans to use the 10 courses that are generated as its original offering when Iversity begins enrolling…
A new $35m fund will be managed by external venture studio High Alpha Innovation and will work with the university on creating new startups.
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