when your lms doesn't cut it: 6 scenarios for open edx in corporate training
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When Your LMS Doesn’t Cut It6 Scenarios for Open edX in Corporate Training
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We’ve met people just like you. You are a corporate learning professional and your most important tool, your LMS, just isn’t cutting it.
It constrains your ability to create and deliver engaging, effective, high-end online training. You aren’t able to do all the things you want.
Even your learners hate it.
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Now you have a really important course to deliver, a course that is strategic to the company and will be very high profile.
And your LMS is just going to get in your way.
Well, there might be a solution. And one you’ve probably not considered before.
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?The answer just might be Open edX, an open-source
learning platform developed by edX, a learning
destination site founded by Harvard and MIT.
EdX, Open edX and the edX and Open EdX logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of edX Inc.
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Of course, it might not.
It’s not the answer for all situations. But for some, it is perfect.
Let’s explore.
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What is edX?
• Formed in 2012
• Collaboration between Harvard and MIT
• Goal is to create access to world class MOOCs and online courses
• edX is now home to 1,200+ courses
EdX, Open edX and the edX and Open EdX logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of edX Inc.
7EdX, Open edX and the edX and Open EdX logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of edX Inc.
What is Open edX?
edX took the underlying technology and made it open source.
Free to all and a large community adds features and capabilities
Used by organizations like Harvard, McKinsey, MongoDB, Johnson & Johnson, Stanford and more
edX + OPEN =
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Open edX consists of an LMS, Studio for authoring content and xBlocks for customization.
So here sits technology, recently developed, built for high-end learning, customizable, proven and able to handle large scale delivery. And because it is open source, there are no software license fees or subscriptions.
Sound good?
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It’s good. It’s actually great. But as mentioned, it’s not right for everyone.
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So, the question is — is it right for you?
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6 Scenarios for Open edX in Corporate Training
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Open edX is very good for large learner populations. edX reaches millions – it’s built for MOOCS (the “m” is for massive). So scale and performance are not an issue when you have to reach thousands or tens of thousands of learners. Open edX has none of the scale and performance issues that most LMS’ have (and that learners hate).
1. You need to reach thousands of learners
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With Open edX, learners can easily access an incredible library of world-class education for corporate learning on edX. Courses, micro-masters and programs in leadership, project management, business, people management, data science, problem solving and more. Courses can be extended or combined with your own content into company-specific programs. All are created by leading universities and partners of edX and are affordable. edX is the biggest secret in corporate learning!
2. You want to offer access to world class content
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Open edX is a good fit when your course content is custom, unique and specific to you. Because the platform can be customized and is built for modern learning experiences, you can remove many of the artificial boundaries between LMS and course. To the user, it feels like one experience.
3. You need something beyond Off-The-Shelf-Technology
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When you have a very specific vision for pedagogy and you need the technology to bend to you, not the other way around, Open edX is a fit. As an open source technology, Open edX is built to be customized and extended. It has backing from elite universities, a large open source community, and xBlocks for customization. And in many cases, these changes are adopted back into the core software source code.
4. Your pedagogy cannot be compromised
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When you want to incorporate adaptive, competency based, experiential, social or constructivist learning, Open edX is the right fit. It supports, or can be extended for, newer approaches to online training that legacy LMS systems tend to struggle with.
5. You want to create learning that learners love
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Open edX can be hosted on a cloud service. No longer do you need to get support from over burdened internal IT or beg your LMS provider. It is especially good when have a strategic course or set of courses that you want to live on their own, have their own personality, be their own thing.
6. You want to be free from IT teams
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So, do any of those scenarios sound familiar?
Could this be a fit?
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Let us help you explore this option. We are ExtensionEngine and we build Custom Learning Experiences. For many, Open edX is the starting point for what they need, and we take it from there.
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• We implement, host, extend, and customize Open edX.
• We work very closely with edX (We even work in the same building as them).
• But we do more than just Open edX.
• We have a large team of instructional designers, UX/UI designers, software developers and strategists.
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We’ve built custom learning experiences for world class organizations like MIT, Harvard, Smithsonian Institute, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, a top 3 financial ratings agency and brand name management consultancy.
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Ready to launch your own engaging, effective, high-end online training?
CONTACT US TODAYWe are experts in Custom Learning Experiences.70+ product launches for some 40 clients including elite universities, corporations and foundations...programs that have touched millions of learners to date.
Services include platform and course development, strategy, instructional design, operational analytics, custom xBlock development, theming, hosting, on-going maintenance and support.
Edward Daciuk has worked with some of the world’s best known companies on learning strategy and implementation. He is known for his innovative, challenging thinking and expertise in cutting edge online learning. He has an BS from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.
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