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 […]
Partial Credit – From Concept to Implementation
Greetings! My name is Colin Fredericks. I work at HarvardX as a Senior Project Lead, which means that most of my job is helping Harvard professors make quality courses. However, over the past few months I’ve been working, mostly in my spare time, on adding partial credit to the Open edX platform. I really like […]
OLI and edX Collaborate on New Feedback Mechanisms for Learners
To enable a richer set of immediate feedback options in the Open edX platform, the Open Learning Initiative at Stanford University collaborated with edX and the Open edX community to add two new feedback mechanisms across all of the basic problem types in the platform. The Open Learning Initiative designs courses based on learning […]
Open Learning XML (OLX) Format
Many of you are familiar with the edX-specific version of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) that edX uses as a content format. This format, which we’ve just renamed Open Learning XML (OLX), allows our course authors to easily reuse content in a variety of contexts—from courses on the edX platform to private instances of Open edX […]