Corporate Learning Makes its Move into Ed Tech
For the last few years, growth in Ed Tech has been driven by forces outside of the traditional classroom: corporate training. It’s going to be a hot topic at Open edX 2019 as well. Candace Thille, the new director of learning science at Amazon as well as associate professor at Stanford, will focus her keynote […]
How Arbisoft Helps Open Source Education
(Editor’s Note: this guest blog post comes from Fatima A. of Arbisoft. We appreciate Arbisoft’s continued support of the Open edX Conference and the community) Arbisoft + Open edX Open edX now powers 1,500 installs around the world. Top institutions such as MIT and Stanford have used it to open-source their course materials, making the world’s best […]
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 Cypress Virtual Machine Images Now Available Thanks to Bitnami
Following the successful release of Open edX Cypress, we are pleased to announce that Cypress virtual machine (VM) images are now available thanks to Bitnami! The Cypress virtual machine images areavailable for a wide variety of cloud platforms: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMware vCloud, and more. We welcome developers and IT admins […]
Announcing Cypress, the latest Open edX release!
We are pleased to announce the release of Cypress, the third release of Open edX, the open source online learning platform that powers edX.org as well as hundreds of other online courses around the world. To get it now, please see the Cypress installation instructions. This release is absolutely jam packed with new features and […]
Open edX powered by Bitnami on AWS Marketplace
In a partnership between AWS, Bitnami, and edX, the Open edX Stack is now available in the AWS Marketplace as Open edX powered by Bitnami. Bitnami creates and maintains a library of popular server applications and development environments, set up for easy installation. These applications and environments are ready to work out of the […]
A Tale of Two (Memory) Leaks
During February, edx-platform suffered from two different issues relating to memory usage in our webapp. After the dust had settled, I wrote up a three-part series detailing the tools we built and used to diagnose the bugs, and a detailed breakdown of each bug, and how we diagnosed them. Part 1: An Introduction to Memsee […]