What are the Core Capabilities the Core Product will support?
What is the Open edX “competitive” position in the marketplace?
What is the Open edX Platform Narrative?
The Open edX project is an open-source learning and teaching platform for creating and delivering online courses targeted to adult learning. It is highly customizable and scale-able. It is designed for how people learn, with optimal pedagogy and support for good instructional design guiding the Core Product experience.
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The low-touch end of the spectrum serves the vast majority of current Open edX instances, with particular emphasis on Continuing Adult Education in the higher education, consumer and not-for-profit sectors, and large public education initiatives in the higher education and government sectors. The unifying thread among these use cases is that learners tend to be non-matriculated students, many of whom are on credential-based learning pathways. The latter use case represents an area for which there is growing community interest and demand, and an area of significant potential growth for the platform.
What are our ideal Core Product value propositions?
The following value propositions describe where we aspire to take the Open edX platform over the next 3-5 years. While many of these value propositions reflect and build on inherent strengths of the open source platform, others signify areas of key investment.
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The Core Product experience supports the full learning and teaching cycle. For authors and course teams, this includes content creation, course design and delivery. For learners, this includes enrollment to credential. For administrators, this includes management to analytics.
We believe that a sound, learner-centric experience is only as good as the instructional design behind it. We aim to make the Core Product the most pedagogically-informed online learning platform it can be. We should aim to occupy the higher education LMS space, as the best open source LMS with a mission-driven approach to learner impact. To achieve this, we can leverage our robust and eager community of world-class instructional designers and educators to ensure that good pedagogy is baked into each core capability in the Core Product experience.
We excel at enabling good content creation and course design. The “out of the box” experience enables authors, educators and course teams to infuse best pedagogical practices into content and course creation workflows by design, while our continued support of DIY tools and environment fosters innovation and experimentation in the learning design process.
We excel at assessment and interactivity, with robust capabilities for formative and summative assessment online that are grounded in Interactive Pedagogy.
We excel at closing the loop between learner analytics and course design, with channels for analytics to inform and shape course design.
We excel at customization across the full-spectrum of the Open edX experience, from carefully curated customizations that support each of the two primary use cases, to support for DIY extension of the platform.
We excel at balancing “out of the box” experiences while continuing to foster the DIY spirit that the Open edX platform was founded on. We ensure that the Core Product experience is designed for seamless use by any educator without a technical background. At the same time, the Core Product experience includes a thoughtful extension framework that enables continued extension and innovation, with proper guidelines and channels for some extensions to be contributed back to the Core Product experience.
We excel at using evidence-based approaches to continually improve and invest in the Core Product experience. Just as our learners are continually evolving through knowledge and experience, so is our platform. We routinely collaborate with partners to create studies and data analyses that measure key features and interventions to continually improve learner success rates, and use those findings to inform the platform roadmap and areas for investment.
We embrace new technologies in the EdTech space while holding high standards for integrating them. We investigate new technologies as potential solutions for key problems or challenges identified on our Roadmap, and ensure rigorous testing of efficacy and pedagogical effectiveness as a prerequisite for putting them into the Core Product experience.
What is the Core Product design?
The platform is designed around the concept of an “out of the box” Core Product experience. Criteria includes:
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Supported extension points, documentation and community support for building custom features yourself.
What are the Core Capabilities the Core Product will support?
What is the Open edX “competitive” position in the marketplace?
As a general rule, our approach to the wider LMS marketplace is to “compete” by simply excelling at our mission and with what we do best - online pedagogy, assessment, course design and delivery, and customization.
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Investing in feature parity in the authoring experience, particularly around content reuse, content management tools, master course templates
Investing in feature parity in the administrative experience, particularly around RBAC
Investing in a sleek, updated UX/UI for authors in particular
Investing in user-friendly, point-and-click pathways to customization, particularly for LTI
Investing in a core set of new features designed to meeting residential needs, particularly around real-time learner analytics, a high-touch speedgrader
Investing in building an integration framework with existing campus services
What is Open edX not?
The open-source Open edX platform IS NOT:
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