When you want to incorporate adaptive, competency based, experiential, social or constructivist learning, Open edX may be the right fit. It supports, or can be extended for, newer approaches to online training that legacy LMS systems tend to struggle with.

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When Your LMS
Doesn’t Cut It
6 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.

7. 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?
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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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ExtensionEngine
Principal Learning Strategist
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