Solving Problems Together: Community-Driven Platform Development

March 31, 2026 | By

The best Open edX platform improvements don’t always start in a planning doc – sometimes they start in a hallway.

Join us for the Solving Problems Together Workshop on Tuesday, May 19 at the 2026 Open edX Conference, where product, marketing, instructional design, and provider leaders come together to shape what’s next for the platform.

From Conversation to Code

This workshop spotlights Learning Pathways, a project that began as a hallway conversation at the 2025 Open edX Conference and grew into an active, cross-organizational development effort with contributors from ASU, Edly, OpenCraft, and Axim Collaborative. We’ll walk through how open collaboration and working groups turned an idea into real, shippable software, and share progress through interactive prototypes you can explore hands-on.

What Could You Build Together?

The second half of the workshop is yours. Bring your big ideas, roadmap challenges, and appetite for collaboration. We’ll facilitate structured idea generation and community connection – because the next great Open edX platform project might start with a conversation you have on May 19.

Join us at the 2026 Open edX Conference

Hosted by Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, UT. The full conference runs May 19-22:

  • May 19: Workshops
  • May 20-21: Keynotes and session talks
  • May 22: Open edX Town Hall

Get your tickets now and help build what’s next.

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The 2026 Open edX Conference will present innovative use cases for one of the world’s best open source online learning management systems, the Open edX platform, and discover the latest advancements in instructional design, course constellation, and methods for operating & extending the Open edX platform, including breakthrough technologies, such as generative AI.