LabX LabXchange is a new initiative spun out of HarvardX, to build a specialized site to help prepare students before they do lab work.
It will be based on Open edX (or perhaps even use edx.org as the backend), but have a new beautiful, streamlined UI, optimized for this use case.
LabX will LabXchange will not generally be a content producer - instead, it will be a specialized content repository, reusing course elements from multiple existing producers - such as HarvardX, StanfordX, or even non-edX sources like Khan Academy.
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- Content tagging
- Improved content libraries and faceted content search
- Improved content reuse features, including authorship tracking+verification
- API for content creation/tagging/grouping, so that pathways can be created from the LabX the LabXchange frontend and not just Studio
- "Pathways": Small linear sequences of content that aren't part of a course (similar to the "MicroModules" concept in AL: Decoupling Navigation)
Other features that will be part of LabX of LabXchange but not necessarily built into the Open edX backend:
- LabX frontendLabXchange frontend
- Site-wide discussion forum + messaging system, and user profiles
- Moderation system - flag content/forum posts/etc. for moderator review, or require mod review before publishing
- Gamification features
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- Top-down use cases
- List of requirements in the LabX LabXchange Timeline Google Doc
- The platform features slide deck
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