This fall, edX will offer seven MOOCs: artificial intelligence and software engineering from Berkeley, computer science and biostatistics and epidemiology from Harvard, and an introduction to solid state chemistry and an introduction to computer science and programming from M.I.T., along with another round of the circuits course it offered as a prototype. 

Anant Agarwal, the president of edX, said that more than 120 universities around the world had expressed interested in working with the partnership.

The New York Times.

See also comment in German on free online learning platform Coursera, negotiated as for-profit company.