Dive Summary:

• In a bid to reach government leaders and make its training available to the public, the International Monetary Fund is joining forces with edX.
• The partnership is the first between the MOOC platform and an international government organization.
• Over the next few months, two pilot courses--"Financial Programming and Policies" and "Debt Sustainability Analysis"--will be introduced for small groups of government officials before opening to the general public in 2014.

From the article:

... "This collaboration with the IMF demonstrates another innovative use of the edX platform," said edX President Anant Agarwal, in a prepared statement. "We have seen universities use our platform to deliver educational content in ever-evolving ways — from blended learning to flipped classrooms to richer on-campus learning experiences. It is a natural progression for us to work with a variety of other institutions seeking a flexible, feature-rich and massively-scalable platform to deliver their own educational programs." ...