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 […]
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 […]
7 Reasons Why (not to miss Open edX 2019)
The Open edX Conference is back for another year. Our 2019 theme – Collaborative Learning. Community Led. – speaks to our focus on the growing importance of collaborative learning and how educators, students and technologists are together building the next generation of educational technology. If you’ve attended in years past, you know the enthusiastic, […]
Community Hangout – Thursday November 8
Our next Community Hangout is set for Thursday, November 8th. We welcome everyone to join and to also add to the agenda on our wiki. If you happened to have missed the previous hangout, the recording is now availabe on Youtube.
Join our first Architecture Hangout for Open edX on October 16th
Above photo: “Architecture” by barnyz (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) We will soon be having regular discussions to deep dive into various topics related to Open edX Architecture. Anyone is welcome to join and may contributor or simply listen. Below is a message from Nimisha, edX’s Chief Architect, about the upcoming hangout: Hi everyone, We would like to invite you […]
Relive the Best Moments from Open edX 2018
Now that we’re one month removed from the Open edX conference in Montreal, we look back fondly on that week. It was wonderful to get to know everyone that makes the Open edX community “go”. Most, if not all, of the presentations are now online and may be downloaded. All of the videos from conference sessions and keynotes […]
The Future of Education is Open Source
(Open source and education will be a key topic of the upcoming Open edX 2018 conference in Montreal, May 29 – 31. Register now!) Way back in 2005, I began to ask the question of “why does anyone release open source code” and “how is the open source universe still expanding?” Remember, we were still […]
Using the Open edX Ecommerce Module
Community member Lawrence McDaniel has written a great blog post about using the ecommerce module that comes with Open edX: The Open edX Ecommerce module is actually a 3rd party Django project named Oscar that the Open edX team fully integrated into the platform. Like the LMS and CMS, Oscar Ecommerce is an independent application with its own […]
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 […]
Open edX Conference Program is Live
We have an exciting program lined up for this year’s Open edX Conference in beautiful Montreal, May 29 – 31. Register for the Open edX 2018 Conference We have in-depth workshops on Tuesday, May 29, followed by keynotes and breakout sessions on May 30th and 31st. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet the Open […]
Announcing Open edX 2018: May 29–June 1 in Montréal
I am excited to announce the date and location for the 2018 Open edX conference. We’ll be gathering in the last week of May: May 29 to June 1, hosted by Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal, and Polytechnique Montréal, the three founding institutions behind EDUlib. There are many more details to come, but we wanted […]
Ginkgo, the 2017 summer release of the Open edX platform, is here!
We have just released the final version of the latest Open edX tree release, Ginkgo! This is our seventh Open edX release, and we’re excited to share it with our community. A big thanks to everyone who contributed to making this release possible—particularly Jill Vogel from OpenCraft, who helped shepherd many features into the final […]
An edX partner goes to the Open edX conference
Two weeks ago I traveled to Madrid, Spain to attend the Open edX Conference, hosted this year by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (or uc3m). Uc3m is located in a suburb just south of central Madrid and was concurrently hosting EMOOCs, the 5th annual European MOOC stakeholder meeting. As you might imagine, Open edX and […]
Spotlight on Proversity, Keystone Sponsor of #OpenedX2017
The last in our sponsor spotlight series, we are pleased to welcome Proversity to Open edX 2017 and thank them for their contribution to the conference and the community! We spoke to them about their approach and what they’re looking forward to in Madrid. Tell us about Proversity. What’s your approach to online learning? What […]
Spotlight on: Microsoft, Reception Sponsor of #OpenedX2017
We’re excited to share that Microsoft is joining the Open edX 2017 as a sponsor of the evening reception on Wednesday, May 24. This is the second time they’ve sponsored the Open edX conference, and we greatly appreciate their support of both edX and the Open edX community! We spoke to Microsoft about their unique […]
Spotlight on Examity, Lunch Sponsor of #OpenedX2017
We’re excited to welcome first-time Open edX conference sponsor Examity as Lunch Sponsor for the 2017 Open edX conference. Thank you, Examity, for supporting this great event and our community. We talked to Examity about their remote proctoring service, open source communities and more. Tell us about Examity. What makes you unique? Examity was founded […]
Spotlight on Appsembler, Keystone Sponsor of #OpenedX2017
We’re thrilled that Appsembler is a Keystone Sponsor of the 2017 Open edX Conference, May 24 and 25 in Madrid, Spain. This is their third year in a row sponsoring the conference, and we are very grateful for their support of the community. We spent some time discussing with Appsembler what they’ve been working on and […]
Ficus, the winter 2016/2017 release of Open edX, is here!
We have just released the final version of the latest Open edX tree release, Ficus! This is our sixth Open edX release, and we’re excited to share it with our community. A big thanks to everyone who contributed to making this release possible—particularly Pierre Mailhot from EDUlib, who consistently was one of the first to […]
Open edX 2017 early bird registration ends March 1
Early bird rates for the 2017 Open edX annual conference will end tomorrow, Wednesday, March 1! The conference will take place at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, on May 24 & 25, with hands-on days preceding and following the two-day conference. Hands-on technical tutorials will be held on Tuesday May 23 and there […]
Introducing keynote speaker Vincent Zimmer, co-founder of Kiron Open Higher Education
We are excited to share that Vincent Zimmer, co-founder of Kiron Open Higher Education, a blended learning platform for refugees, has agreed to be a keynote speaker at the Open edX conference at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain, on May 24 & 25. Vincent Zimmer, co-founder of Kiron Open Higher Education Vincent has wide […]
Introducing Nick van Dam, 2017 Open edX keynote speaker
We are delighted to announce that Nick van Dam, Global Chief Learning Officer and Client Advisor at McKinsey & Company, will be a keynote speaker at the Open edX conference at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain, on May 24 & 25. Nick van Dam, Global CLO, McKinsey & Co. Nick is an internationally recognized […]
Announcing the 2017 Open edX Conference – May 24th and 25th in Madrid
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the annual Open edX Conference. Held for the first time in Europe on May 24th and 25th, the conference on this leading free, open-source learning platform will take place in Madrid, Spain to further quality online education and training. Over two inspiring days, a global audience of more than 200 educators, decision-makers on educational and training initiatives, researchers, […]
An edX open source newbie enters the Open edX world
How Open edX 2016 left me with new ideas, deeper connections, and effective approaches to our online learning challenges Mark Haseltine (edX CTO) and Anant Agarwal (edX CEO) If you missed this year’s Open edX conference, you missed out. It was amazing, and I hope you’ll be able to attend the next one in Madrid […]
Open edX 2016 was a hit!
Thank you to everyone who sponsored, spoke, organized, volunteered, led, traveled and attended the 2016 Open edX conference! With over 230 attendees, it was far and away our most successful conference to date and reflected the vibrancy of our growing community. We talked about the impact of measurement on higher education and the challenges of […]
Open Response Assessments Now Available
This new feature adds increased flexibility in assessment response. University of British Columbia (UBC) came together with edX and Stanford for four months of collaborative work on this Stanford initiated feature. Instructors can now configure the Open Response Assessment (ORA) tool to accept uploads from learners in image, PDF, or other file formats specified just for this […]
New Oppia XBlock allows embedding interactive activities into Open edX courses
My name’s Sean Lip, and I’m writing this post on behalf of Oppia.org, a website that allows people to create and share interactive online learning experiences called ‘explorations’. These explorations simulate a conversation with a personal tutor, allowing students to learn by doing while receiving targeted feedback. Exploration creators can easily improve their explorations over […]
Upcoming Change in edX Leadership
I wanted to communicate some changes within the edX leadership. Beth Porter, our Vice President of Product, will be leaving edX on December 11. Beth has made a lasting impact on numerous major initiatives during her time at edX, both on edX products and features and within the Open edX community. We are grateful for […]
Last Chance for Open edX Con 2015
Today marks the final two weeks before Open edX Con 2015. Registration ends today, so register now to join us October 12-13th at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. If you’re undecided about the conference, here are some reasons why this year’s conference is going to be amazing: Visit the beautiful Wellesley College campus […]
Open edX Con Announces Keynote Speaker Jeff Jaffe, CEO of W3C
The Open edX team is excited to announce our Tuesday keynote speaker, Dr. Jeff Jaffe, CEO of W3C. In his role as CEO of the W3C, Dr. Jaffe works with W3C staff, membership, and the public to evolve and communicate W3C’s mission to be the leading forum for technical development and stewardship of the Web. […]
What Makes the Open edX Platform Unique? See These Cases
By Michael Amigot, Founder at IBL Studios Education It’s a Global Success The Open edX software is open-source technology that makes learning easier and studying faster. It was created by MIT and Harvard University, and was quickly supported by universities such as UC Berkeley, Georgetown, and Stanford, and companies such as Google and Microsoft. This […]
The 2015 Open edX Con Hackathon will be held at CIC Boston!
We’ve been working hard to find the absolute best location for this year’s Open edX conference hackathon, and we’re really happy to announce this year it will be held at CIC Boston, a co-working and conference space centrally located in downtown Boston. CIC Boston provides state-of-the-art facilities for technical and collaborative events and we’re thrilled to use […]
Open edX 2015 speakers announced
Today we are announcing the full lineup of community speakers for the year’s Open edX Conference. We have talks presenting use cases from on-campus blended learning to remote medical training to corporate and professional development, in-depth technical discussions about deployment in new and exciting environments such as OpenStack, tackling the challenge of complex migrations, and […]
Third Party Authentication using SAML Protocol
Summary Over the past several months, edX partners and Open edX community members designed and implemented new sign in capabilities that allow learners to use their campus credentials to access edX courses. Similar to the way that edX currently supports sign in with Google or Facebook, learners at participating institutions can authenticate into edX using […]
Happy Open-iversary edX!
Two years ago, we took our platform and released it to the world under the AGPL. Not only could anyone install, setup, and use the same software that powers edX.org, they could also develop, change, modify, and share it with anyone (and everyone) else. The past two years have been exciting. We have worked with […]
#OpenedXHack
Over the past few days, six edXers have flown from Cambridge, MA to Paris in order to participate in an Open edX hackathon in France. Alongside France Université Numérique (FUN-MOOC) and IONISx, Nimisha Asthagiri, David Baumgold, Gabe Mulley, Beth Porter, Brian Talbot, and Ed Zarecor will be mentoring over a hundred students in developing the […]
A Case for Accessible, Usable and Universal Design for Learning
Issues of learning technologies and accessibility are more of a hot topic in our field than usual these days. EdX recently reached a settlement with the Justice Department to make its website, course creation platform and mobile applications accessible under ADA. Harvard and MIT are facing a lawsuit for lack of online captioning for materials for the general […]
Open edX at PyCon 2015
PyCon 2015 is coming up, and we’re all super excited! PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using the Python programming language, and since Open edX is written in Python, it’s a big event for us. This year, Open edX is an official sponsor of PyCon, and we have several great events planned […]
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 […]
Welcome to the Portal!
After months of hard work from a dedicated team, the new Open edX Community Portal is live! Up until now, resources and documentation for Open edX lived in several different places, without a guide or useful inks between sites. The portal is not meant to replace the edX documentation on Read the Docs or the Confluence wiki, but […]
Databits Challenge
Last September, HarvardX and Databits, an invitation-based website where creative coders, engineers, and data scientists connect and share their work, challenged the Internet to create an interactive visualization of the binomial distribution. Specifically, they asked participants to develop a tool to help students understand a concept in probability — a tool that could be integrated into the Open […]
Re-Licensing Developer Tools and APIs
One of the things we take pride in at edX is our commitment to open source. An important decision in open-sourcing code is the choice of a license. For the most part, we’ve used the AGPL license. To better meet our open-source goals, however, we’re changing a few of our licenses. Our more than 30 public […]
PyCon 2015
PyCon sent out talk acceptance notifications yesterday, and our office got really excited when four edX employees were chosen to speak. David Baumgold: Advanced Git Ned Batchelder: Facts and Myths About Python Names and Values Sarina Canelake: I18N: World Domination the Easy Way Adam Palay: Words, Words, Words: Reading Shakespeare with Python If you’re going to PyCon 2015, say […]
Conference, Hackathon, and Beyond
On November 18-19, edX hosted the first Open edX Conference (#openedxcon) in Cambridge, MA, at Radcliffe Gym on the campus of Harvard University. Open edX developers, operators, and fans came together to meet face-to-face and learn from each other in two packed days of formal presentations and ad-hoc conversations. For the Open edX team, it […]
How Stanford Runs Its Own Fork
Stanford runs an instance of the OpenEdX code base that a team of engineers actively develops. We maintain our own fork at github.com/Stanford-Online/edx-platform and we try to keep our fork close to edX master by merging monthly from edX’s main edx-platform repository (github.com/edx/edx-platform). We prefer to land code through pull requests (PRs) to edX’s main repository, but […]
edX Hackathon
With so many developers and education specialists in town for the Open edX Conference, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to invite our open source community to edX HQ to work side by side with edXers! For a look at the hackathon process, visit our open wiki here, or look here to see specific projects that have been […]
Open edX Conference Wrap-up
The inaugural Open edX Conference is a wrap! With more than 30 speakers covering dozens of topics from open badging to shopping cart integration, we had no shortage of inspiring projects and discussions. Our goal was to make this conference as open as our platform, and we came away impressed as always with the enthusiasm […]
Welcome to the First Open edX Conference!
THANK YOU to everyone joining us for our first Open edX Conference! We’re excited to be hosting so many members of our Open edX community from around the world to discuss developments on our open source platform. Whether you’re on-campus or off, we’re hoping you’ll take part in the conversation. Some of the presentations will […]