How Facebook’s Open Academy Offers College Credits To Computer Science Students Working On Open-Source Projects

Computer-science students at 22 universities globally will be able to work on open-source projects as part of their coursework as part of Open Academy, an initiative Facebook hatched in the spring of 2012 and announced publicly Wednesday.

Computer-science students at 22 universities globally will be able to work on open-source projects as part of their coursework as part of Open Academy, an initiative Facebook hatched in the spring of 2012 and announced publicly Wednesday.

Open Academy was conceived by Facebook in collaboration with Stanford University Computer Science Professor Jay Borenstein.

The program debuted at Stanford in 2012, and the following universities were added this past spring: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University, University of Toronto, Waterloo University, University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, Imperial College of London, Jagiellonian University, University of Helsinki, and Tampere University of Technology.

The winter 2014 course will begin in early February, and the following schools will be added to the list of those already participating in Open Academy: University of Pennsylvania, University of California San Diego, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California Berkeley, Purdue University, University of Warsaw,...

AW+

WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.

Subscribe today!

To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber

View Subscription Options

Already a member? Sign in