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A few weeks ago, we asked you to help us reach two million students across the globe. Together, we did it! We now have students from 8 to 95 learning something new, exploring an interest or changing their career. Thank you for spreading the word. What else are we up to? EdX just teamed up with Facebook and the Rwandan government to pilot a new approach to mobile social learning for Rwandan students. We're working towards a better... social future. Interested in learning something new? Sixteen courses start over the next few weeks. Sign up for one today, or let your friends know using the buttons below.  Share Tweet +1 - Patrick, your edX Community Manager Starting Soon  Explore all of the amazing edX courses starting soon.  American Capitalism: A History CornellX Examine how economic development fueled the United States’ evolution from 13 backwater colonies to a global power. Started: March 17, 2014  - Learn More Share:    Principles of Written English, Part 3 UCBerkeleyX An introduction to academic writing for English Language Learners, focusing on essay development, grammatical correctness... Starts: April 1, 2014 - Learn more Share:    Evaluating Social Programs MITx This course provides a thorough understanding of how randomized evaluations can be used to evaluate social and development programs. Starts: April 1, 2014 - Learn More Share:    Giving with a Purpose LBGx Identify effective nonprofit organizations and apply course concepts by awarding grants to student-nominated nonprofits. Starts: April 2, 2014 - Learn More Share:    United States Health Policy HarvardX Learn the essentials of U.S. health care policy from some of the nation's top experts. Starts: April 7, 2014 - Learn More Share:      View All edX Courses Verified Courses & XSeries Take advantage of over 30 verified courses or enroll in an XSeries sequence. Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer?  MITx You have an idea for a product, but do you know who will want to buy it? Started: March 18, 2014 - Learn More Share:    Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe ANUx Exploring the biggest mysteries of modern astrophysics. Starts: March 25, 2014 - Learn More Share:    Hypersonics — From Shock Waves to Scramjets UQx Understand flight at speeds greater than Mach 5 and discover how to analyse the performance... Starts: April 7, 2014 - Learn More Share:      Introduction to Biomedical Imaging UQx Discover how biomedical imaging technologies are complementary and what information they provide to health professionals. Starts: April 7, 2014 - Learn More Share:      Engineering Software as a Service UCBerkeleyX The fundamentals of software engineering using Agile techniques to develop Software as a Service using Ruby on Rails. Starts: April 18, 2014 - Learn More Share:      View All Verified Courses Recently Announced  We're adding new courses daily. Explore all of the new courses from our partners.  Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics BUx An introduction to sabermetrics, baseball analytics, data science, the R Language... Starts: May 8, 2014 - Learn More Share:    Introduction to Linux LinuxFoundationX Develop a good working knowledge of Linux using both the graphical interface and command line. Covers the three major distribution families. Starts: 3rd Quarter 2014 - Learn More Share:      Can't decide what to take? Don't worry. Try the new edX demo course. Demo101 walks you through how to get the most out of edX, how a course works and shares some best practices to help you be even more successful.   View All edX Courses Find edX Students Near You There are edX students in every country on the planet! Find other edX students near you in one of our 1400+ edX Meetup Communities. Join study groups, work on projects together and help others discover edX.  Student Story This is David. David changed careers and his life when he took CS50 from HarvardX and 6.00 Introduction to Computer Programming with Python from MITx. He discovered what made him happy and was able to turn a newly found passion into an employment opportunity. Read more about his story and share your own at edxstories.tumblr.com.