Open edX at Stanford Overview With A Few Technical Bits Sef Kloninger 3 June 2014 University of Zürich Agenda: http://tinyurl.com/openedx-zurich Slides: http://tinyurl.com/openedx-zurich-sef Shared Notes: http://tinyurl.com/openedx-zurich-shared-notes or: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/eJQtMMcPRe
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Open edX at StanfordOverview With A Few Technical Bits
As of Winter 2014, more than 145 Stanford faculty from all seven schools
171 of 246 offerings are distinct course offerings or course components; 75 are repeated courses or course components
94 of 171 distinct offerings were flipped or blended classes on campus, and 51 were free to the public as MOOCs. The remainder (26) were course components, Continuing / Professional Education or other specialized audiences.
More than 1.9 million people have registered for one or more free public online courses taught by Stanford faculty offered through NovoEd, Coursera, Class2Go (Stanford’s initial platform), or Stanford OpenEdX.
Since the fall of 2012, more than 4 million hours of interaction.
Platform Strategy“Control Our Destiny” via multiple platforms● Too important to outsource to a vendor● Our brand; no limitations on terms (use, sharing...)
Open Source● It’s about the content, not platform. Get it pervasive.● Not just more resources, it’s about more use cases.
Faculty choose the platform that suits them best
Where We Started
JUNE2013
FeaturefulGreat video experience
Rich assessments
Peer Evaluation
ExpressiveBalance between standard layouts and customization
Studio is a good option for non-nerds
Stable XML format
Extendable
External Graders
JSInput●
Frontend● xBlocks● “JS Input” (!)● LTI
Backend● External Graders
Engineering
Features We’ve Built1. Shibboleth integration2. Chat for on-campus courses3. Shopping cart / Cybersource
● Establish clear guidelines for contributors● Expand governance to involve
community in technical and product decisions
RecommendationsCommunity Building
● Hire a full time Open edX community manager● Establish, measure, and communicate Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs)● Create forums to engage platform
users (developers, hosting providers, researchers), e.g. user group meetings and office hours
Technical Improvements
● Open up the development process: public wiki’s, public bug tracking● Move to 2-4 stable releases per year: release notes, upgrade scripts, improved packaging
and testing● Provide more ways to extend and modify the platform without having to change the core: content interfaces and API’
s● Improve the Open edX documentation● Create a more informative website targeted at platform adopters● Establish an ecosystem of commercial vendors and hosting providers