Preface

edX is an open source learning management system (LMS) and course authoring tool launched by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a nonprofit partnership. A massively online open course (MOOC) platform, edX offers students self-paced learning, online discussion groups, Wiki-based collaborative learning, assessment of learning, online laboratories, and other interactive learning tools.

If you're an educator creating a course for edX, or a corporate trainer using Open edX to achieve learning and development initiatives, then edX E-Learning Course Development is ideal for you. Whether you're developing an online course for the first time or you are a veteran LMS scholar, this book gets you up and running with edX.

Walking you through eight essential steps for creating an edX course, each chapter signifies a step in the curriculum development and implementation process. We begin with an overview of MOOCs and the history of edX, detail curriculum development and video production best practices, and then explore exercises and assessment options. We then integrate everything, managing your edX course's administrative options while facilitating your students' learning experience. Finally, we suggest strategies to market your course using traditional tools, edX's internal options, and social media.