MOOC on Open edX Outside the edX Consortium Enrolls Nearly 3,000 Participants
George Washington University’s first MOOC titled “Practical Numerical Methods with Pyton” has attracted nearly 3,000 participants in two weeks since the launching without any PR support or marketing...
View ArticleFree Online Courses for a Global High School Audience
This initiative is huge: 26 new, free MOOCs developed by top universities for high schoolers in the U.S. and all around the world, to be launched through the edx.org educational portal within a few...
View ArticleDigital Badges Will Be Issued in November Across the Open edX Platform
Online students can earn digital badges for completing their course. But what about issuing badges to check student progress and cumulative skills learned? How can you verify and manage individual...
View ArticleOpen edX Gets More Open: XBlock API License Is Changed From AGLP to Apache 2.0
The Open edX code works under AGPL, a type of license that prominent open-source advocates like Scott Wilson, Service Manager at OSS Watch, or Dr. Charles R. Severance have loudly criticized. “With a...
View ArticleYouTube Videos on edX Will Have Hidden URLs
The newest version of the edX platform, released on September 18th, includes a very useful feature, although it might go in the opposite direction of the open education trend: it hides YouTube and...
View ArticleThe Open edX Guide: Release of the Second Edition and HTML Format
The second edition of our guide to Open edX was released this week. Most of the sections have been updated with new information. In addition, we have launched an HTML version, which is far more...
View ArticleEdX Open-Sources its Analytics Software
The newest version of the edX platform –free to be downloaded on GitHub– contains a cool surprise: a new course analytics product called edX Insights, which provides data for student enrollment...
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Educause: Trends in Higher Education; the Role of the CIO
What are the key technology trends in higher education? See the picture above that we captured last week at the Educause annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, where more than 7,000 college officials, 270...
View ArticleNow Paid Courses For Working Professionals On EdX.org
EdX has launched fee-based professional education courses that will typically run for a few days to several weeks. Course content will be geared toward employers and employees, and offer Verified...
View ArticlePrivate Discussion Cohorts on Open edX
The newest version of the edX platform –the October 7th release– introduces private discussion cohorts. This feature allows to create smaller communities of students who communicate and share...
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Open edX Starts Naming Their Tested Releases: Aspen Is The First One
EdX has decided to create a series of named releases of the Open edX codebase as a way to capture code at stable points in time which is ready for production after it has been battle-tested. In...
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A Couple of Pegagogical Tips To Create Sucessfull Learning Pathways
The edX Engineering blog features George Washington University‘s Professor Lorena A. Barba, who has developed the second independent, non-edX Consortium Open edX university instance (after...
View ArticleThe First Open edX Badge Solution Will Be Presented in Harvard
An innovative Open edX extension that integrates digital badges into MOOCs will be presented this Wednesday on Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the first Open edX...
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The First Open edX Conference Was a Blast: Watch the Videos!
The first Open edX conference in Cambridge, MA, brought together around 250 specialists on the edX technology and pedagogy. Great keynotes speeches, breakout sessions, networking, a hackathon and...
View ArticleOpen edX Conference: Slides & Videos
The first Open edX conference attracted the best developers and educators in this field. It was a unique gathering! David Baumgold, developer advocate at edX, is collecting all the slides and videos...
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The First Six Badges of the Open edX Universe
The first Open edX-based badges or micro-credentials are being issued this weekend by George Washington University’s MOOC “Practical Numerical Methods with Python”, run by the innovative Professor...
View Article300,000 Students Enrolled in the “Introduction to Linux” Course.
The “Introduction to Linux” course on edX has seen one of the highest enrollments of any class offered on edx.org, ever. It has attracted 300,000 people from all over the world, with the top five...
View ArticleA Smart Way To Moderate a Discussion Forum on EdX
Moderating a discussion board on the edX platform is not an easy task, especially if you have a huge audience. The way Davidson College is handling this job caught our attention. They put together a...
View ArticleLTI Technology is Getting a Second Chance on Open edX Thanks to Harvard...
Because of the lack of proper documentation and poor promotion, XBlocks are not getting much traction on the Open edX platform. This technology was intended to be the Open edX’s weapon to become...
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An XBlock for Embedding PowerPoint Videos, Interactive Lectures and Office...
edX just released an XBlock component for Office Mix, an add-on for PowerPoint 2013 to produce consumer-quality videos, interactive lectures and “Lab apps for Office” (which creates a sort of in-quiz...
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