Anant Agarwal | LinuxCon + CloudOpen North America 2014
summary
edX publishes a free MOOC platform, open sourced under AGPL as open edX, and serves about 2.7 million students with 220 courses; the Linux course enrolls ~200,000 and a circuits class enrolls 155,000 with 7,200 passing. The platform adds autograding, webcam ID‑verified certificates ($25–$250), and collects ~3 billion learner events. Blended use at San Jose State cuts a 40% fail rate to 9%. Video engagement peaks near six minutes, guiding shorter, interactive learning sequences.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:01What Does Education Have To Do with Open Source
- 0:23Open Source and Education Linked
- 2:31Parallels between Edx and the Linux Foundation
- 8:36Foundations of Computer Science
- 9:16Open Edx Platform
- 12:25What Does an Online Class Look like
- 13:38Grading Chemical Equations
- 15:34Blended Classes
- 18:19What's the Optimal Video Length
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