Open edX is an open source online learning platform that can be used for MOOCs, online courses, and to supplement existing learning management systems. It was founded by MIT and Harvard and is now an independent nonprofit. The platform code is released under open source licenses to encourage collaboration and innovation in online education. Open edX is used by over 150 organizations worldwide to deliver online courses to millions of students.

1. Open edX
The Open and Flexible Courseware Platform
FSOSS 2015, Marc Lijour
with content provided by the Open edX team -and special thanks to Ned Batchelder and Joel Barciauskas for their assistance
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Clarifications
1 / Focus on courseware development & delivery (not a replacement for a LMS)
2 / Founded by MIT and Harvard, and now an independent non-profit
The Internet boosted collaboration and innovation, making possible Open Source, Free Software, and the digital
ecosystem we enjoy today, from connected cars to mobile apps. Open edX may be the latest and most exciting
Free/Libre Open Source Software project in education today. Open edX is currently used from MOOCs to massive
national e-learning deployments, or in addition to a local Learning Management System (LMS).
True to the MIT culture, the Open edX team has adopted an open and collaborative approach, releasing the code
under a GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) for the core platform, and an Apache license for some libraries
such as XBlock (for extensions). The community is invited to use, improve, and share code and practices, to
accelerate innovation.
The goal is to bring high quality education to 1 billion students!

3. educating 1 billion students

4. What is “edX” ?
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A non-profit venture
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A web site: edx.org
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A platform: Open edX

5. edX the venture
Founded by MIT and Harvard, Now have >80 members

6. edX goals
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Expand access to quality education
Goal: 1 billion students!
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Improve on-campus education
80 members so far
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Advance research in online learning
How can we make MOOCs better and better?

7. http://edx.org
the web site

9. Quick history
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November 2011: dev started
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March 2012: first MOOC
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January 2013: 20 MOOCs, 500k students
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March 2014: 160 MOOCs, 2.3M students
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Sept 2015: 500 MOOCs, 5M students

17. Open edX
an open source platform
for teaching and learning to foster
innovation in education

19. Open edX
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Platform underlying edx.org
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Open-sourced in June 2013
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Stanford: class.stanford.edu
not a member of edX.org!
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We do software so you can do education

20. Open edX is Free/Libre Open Source Software
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AGPL
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Apache License
See https://open.edx.org/open-edx-licensing

22. XuetangX

23. France Université Numérique

27. Open edX sites by country

28. Open edX courses by primary language

29. Open edX impact
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>150 sites running Open edX
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>1500 courses
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18 languages

30. Architecture
what’s in the box?

31. A course
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Built of XBlocks
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Like <div>’s in HTML

32. XBlock runtime
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Container for XBlocks
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Provides service & data abstractions
Runtime
Services
Data

33. edX Learning Management System
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XBlock runtime
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Data storage
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Course in Mongo
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Student data in MySQL
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Abstracted away by XBlocks
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Provides much more

34. Grading queue
Peer grading
Forums
Progress
Registration
Profiles
Instructor dash
Reporting
TranslationCommerce
Wiki
Certificates Theming
Cohorting
edX LMS

35. Everything
LMS
Studio
Analytics

36. Extending Open edX
how can I make it different?

37. Extension points
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XBlock
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LTI
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JSInput
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core code
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Future: more APIs

38. XBlocks
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Components for courseware
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Separate concerns
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We make the LMS
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You make the component

39. What is an XBlock?
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A Python package
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A class with:
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Data fields
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Views for presentation
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Handlers for input
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A web app, one div at a time
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use existing assets and skills

40. What can an XBlock do?
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Store data: content, student state, etc.
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Storage details abstracted away
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Present data
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HTML, CSS, Javascript
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Process user input
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Record grades, modify state
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Run any Python code

41. Contribution
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>1000 external pull requests merged
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#X contributors

42. Open edX: Community
it’s all about the people

43. Community growth

44. You
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Want to educate people
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Need tools
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Let’s work together

46. Community Development
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LTI (Harvard +)
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SSO (OpenCraft +)
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OLI Hinting (OLI/Stanford)
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Staff graded assignments (MIT)
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Polling XBlock (McKinsey Academy)
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And many more, with more on the way…

47. Open edX as an LTI tool provider (Harvard, UBC...)

48. SSO using SAML and Shibboleth (Opencraft...)

49. Hinting and Feedback (OLI/Stanford)

50. Get Involved!
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Starting point: open.edx.org
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Google group: edx-code
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IRC channel: #edx-code on Freenode
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Twitter: @OpenEdX
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GitHub: http://github.com/edx
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Attend the next Open edX conference
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Speak up today :-)

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Porting Open edX to OpenStack
DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
OpenStack Deployment
Focus on storage
Cisco + Red Hat + Open edX
60+ courses
(technical + regular users)
Knowledge Transfer, Coaching

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OpenStack Overview

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Continuous Integration

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OpenStack Cloud Platform

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56. Our philosophy
Thought leaders in innovation and engineering
We open up systems to collaboration

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58. Questions?
Content from Ned Batchelder
@nedbat
github.com/edx open.edx.org