SFScon16 - Davide Corio, Alessandro Martellone: “Building a learning community with OpenEdx”

Building a learning community with OpenedXFree Software Conference - Bolzano, 11/11/2016

Hello!Alessandro Martellone Senior Software Engineer@Wurth PhoenixTechnical Advisor@ElasticoTrentino Cloud Computing Meetup Organizer

Davide Corio Project Manager@Abstract

Free Software Conference - Bolzano, 11/11/2016

About us Elastico is...

Flexible solutions for training Open source technology

Best practices & contents quality

Innovative methods


Our goalsElastico wants...

● Giving people free contents available through an open source learning

management system;

● Using and sharing the contents under creative commons licences;

● Having the opportunity to reuse the contents and co-create new with users

in a wiki page.


How to make itElastico path...

1. a CUSTOM solution?

PRO: a company asset = total control on the platform

CON: costs and time to market

2. a COMMUNITY DRIVEN solution?

PRO: a “state of the art” product and community support (MIT,Harvard Uni)

CON: new releases management


Why?Elastico for a COMMUNITY DRIVEN solution

...MOODLE vs OPENedX

built for traditional online classrooms / built as the WordPress for MOOC

platforms

the platform is over 10 years old /released as open source in March 2013

configuration options and system performance suffers /a modern, flexible,

robust course-management platform



An open collaborative learning platform

http://www.academy.elastico.co

● Platform● Contents● Collaborative tools● Elastico COMMUNITY

● EdX is a nonprofit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT and composed of dozens of leading global institutions, the xConsortium. EdX offers interactive online courses and MOOCs from the world’s best universities and institutions.

● Open edX is the open source platform that powers edX courses.

Open Courseware Development Platform


OpenedX architectureAt glance


LMS


LMS


LMS


LMS


LMS


Studio


Studio


Insights


Otto


Discussions


XBlocks


● Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based electronic educational technology.

Scorm


xAPI (Tin Cap API)● The Experience API is a service that

allows for statements of experience to be delivered to and stored securely in a Learning Record Store (LRS). These statements of experience are typically learning experiences, but the API can address statements of any kind of experience.

xAPI


● The principal concept of LTI is to establish a standard way of integrating rich learning applications (often remotely hosted and provided through third-party services) with platforms like learning management systems, portals, learning object repositories, or other educational environments.

LTI


Thanks!Any questions?

Davide Corio | Abstract [email protected] - twitter: @davidecorio

Alessandro Martellone | Elastico [email protected] - twitter: @a_martellone

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SFScon16 - Davide Corio, Alessandro Martellone: “Building a learning community with OpenEdx”