Open edX Call for Papers: Ends Dec 7
Early bird registration is now live for Open edX 2019, March 26 – 29, hosted by UC San Diego. Buy now and save! Answer the call for papers – send us a talk proposal Are you an edtech enthusiast? Do you design or run courses on Open edX, edX.org, or other online learning platforms? Do […]
Newest Open edX Release Dogwood Now Available!
Dogwood is here! While Boston may be covered in snow, here in the edX office, blossoming Dogwood is in the air! This fourth Open edX release brings new features, accessibility improvements, and other options to the platform. A global community uses Open edX to teach and train everywhere from high schools in Australia, universities in Indonesia, […]
Open edX Con 2015: Analytics in Education Technology
The second Open edX Conference is just weeks away. Reviewing the final schedule, it’s clear that there is a high level of interest in understanding and working with the piles of data a MOOC can provide about student behavior, as well as data which reflects ways an Open edX instance can be improved. Four of this year’s […]
A Development Environment for Open edX Insights
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of the Open edX Analytics Devstack and want to take some time to explain how the project came about. Big thanks go to Philippe Chiu and Braden MacDonald for their heroic efforts in making this project come to fruition. At last year’s very first Open edX Conference Hackathon, Philippe […]
Intern Spotlight: James Rowan
My name is James Rowan, and I am a rising junior studying math at MIT. I got to spend my summer working as an intern on the analytics team at edX, focusing on the data pipeline. The analytics team provides data and metrics for use by course teams, researchers, and internal teams at edX. My […]
Why Student Mentoring is to Higher Ed what Google is to the Internet
Before taking up the challenge of helping Boston University harness the opportunities of educational technologies and digital learning, I spent several years researching how the Internet had disrupted news and journalism. What happened there was that, thanks to digital technologies, a once-scarce resource – access to news, became abundant (one might say, overabundant) as digital […]
edX Learning Dashboard Challenge
In January, we announced the Databits Learning Dashboard Challenge. Today, we’re happy to announce the winner: congratulations to Siyuan Guo! The goal of this design challenge was to create a dashboard for learners to use, summarizing their progress in an edX or Open edX course in comparison to their peers. Participants were given a sample […]
Documentation Update: edX Data Analytics API
The alpha release of the new Data Analytics API is available for people to use in their own instances of Open edX. This REST API provides the tools for building applications to view and analyze student activity. It’s a new release (version 0). We’re planning on making updates and enhancements, and hope you’ll make and share […]