Engineering Post: XBlock Field Data Complexity
Dave Ormsbee, one of our most longest-lived engineers at edX, wrote up a highly opinionated post about XBlock Fields, the good and the bad (XBlocks are how you can implement custom content types in Open edX courses). In it, Dave argues that we over-engineered them in an attempt to hide complexity from the end user/developer, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
New Open edX XBlock Tutorial
One of our goals for the new fiscal year is to provide improved guidance for XBlock developers, especially those who are new to XBlocks. As a first step, we have just released the Open edX XBlock Tutorial. The tutorial provides much new information, including: A quick start section that helps you create a new XBlock in just a few […]
McKinsey Academy Contributes Poll & Survey XBlocks
About two years ago, McKinsey Academy and edX began working closely together to launch a new professional development experience for McKinsey’s clients built on the Open edX platform. Recently, using the XBlock framework, the McKinsey Academy team — in partnership with OpenCraft — worked to build new polling and survey components that were needed for […]
Why we’re relicensing the XBlock API under Apache
This is an excerpt – read the full post on edx.org to learn more about the evolution of Open edX, the importance of the XBlock API, and the move to Apache. When we open-sourced the edX code in 2013, our goal was to enable developers around the world to experiment with and extend the Open edX platform. EdX is […]