Hartford’s Trinity College this fall will begin offering a pair of online courses to pupils around the globe.
Trinity announced Thursday its membership in edX, an online course platform co-founded by Harvard, MIT in 2012 and that now has more than four dozen U.S. and foreign colleges and universities as members.
The 192-year-old private college is edX’s first Connecticut member, officials said.
With TrinityX, a mobile-computing course and another entitled, “Science in Art,’’ will be offered online for noncredit, beginning Oct. 19. Three more courses are in the works, Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney said in a statement.
EdX was created to increase access to education, improve the quality of education on campuses and online, and research ways to advance teaching and learning, Berger-Sweeney said.
“TrinityX will undoubtedly allow us to reach broader audiences, while, at the same time, influence the use of educational technology on our campus,” she said.
