Open edX 2017

Presentation of a design solutions that improves competence and instigate real change in corporate online learning using the Open edX’s peer assessement and peer instruction.

“Lifelong Learner” is a concept embraced by most modern educational institutions and from the corporate sector - more and more enterprises encourage their employees to obtain new skills and knowledge. This talk will introduce how Open edX and edx.org are evolving to support increasing demand in this sector - the edx-enterprise (aka ENT) project.

Learning is an important attribute of the Microsoft culture and growth mindset and our business of learning supports our broader Microsoft mission by providing technical skills to enable every person to achieve more. Our work to support employee, partner and customer readiness and enable digital transformation leverages Open edX. We’ll share how we use Open edX to expand our reach through partners and to innovate Learning experiences for internal training for employees, for our partners and end customers.

Attendees will gain insight from leading Open edX practitioners about how they achieved their strategic business goals through innovative uses of the platform. This will include how they used Open edX to drive revenue, cost savings, customer engagement, and other goals.Panel discussion with organizations on the cutting edge of e-learning deployment exploring the Innovations they made to achieve strategic goals using Open edX. Panelists will provide:

Project description
Top three lessons learned (success and failures)
Strategic impact
Revenue uplift
Cost savings
Other useful success metrics
Projections for the next twelve months