The Open edX platform is the most powerful open-source solution for online learning. Built by Harvard and MIT, now supported by Axim Collaborative and a global community, it enables universities, companies, and governments to deliver scalable, flexible, and high-quality learning experiences.
Learners Registered
Course Enrollments
Active Sites Worldwide (18% YoY growth)
Adopted by governments, corporations, and top universities
Open edX is an open-source learning platform designed for flexibility, scalability, and innovation. It powers learning at every level—from massive open online courses (MOOCs) to corporate training, national education systems, and micro-credential programs.
Key attributes:
🎯 Key features shaping the future of digital learning:
✔ Scalability – proven support for millions of learners
✔ Flexibility – modular, customizable architecture
✔ Innovation – AI-driven learning, analytics, microcredentials
✔ Community-Driven – backed by a vibrant open-source ecosystem
✔ Trusted Globally – governments, universities, NGOs, and Fortune 500 companies
✔ Open Source – Cost-effective, transparent, and future-proof
As one of the leading providers and contributors to Open edX, edunext helps organizations design, deploy, and scale their digital learning projects:
The Open edX platform, far from a monolithic application has a number of different applications that are generally referred to under the umbrella name “Open edX”. These applications can or not be integrated into an online learning initiative.
The Open edX Learning Management System, is where learners sign up for the site, log in to enroll, access and complete their courses.
This is the content management system where authors create, configure, and manage their courses and course libraries.
Data analytics tool designed to provide staff members with valuable information about enrollment dynamics, learner demographics, student aggregated activity and learning performance in each course.
A Xblock is a modular component that extends the Open edX platform core in order to provide a way to incrementally add features to the course experience. There are native Xblocks that are included in the standard Open edX releases, and also third party Xblocks, created and maintained by trusted members of the Open edX community, like edunext.
A service that collects and stores metadata about the online courses in order to share it efficiently among all the Open edX applications.
This is an additional application built to add some capabilities to the platform in order to serve an enterprise customer.
This is an interface for the LMS to run asynchronous tasks, which allows for example to communicate with external grading services.
This is a service that helps collect and organize the information during the publication of the courses and it’s meant to be used along with a more complex marketing website.
This is an additional service that allows for a more centralized management of student records and also for transferable learner records.
This is a service that allows an identity verification based on the analysis of the student's photo and a photo identification document that are uploaded to the system.
An additional service used to provide a verification service during the taking of the exams. This capability currently relies on third party services.
Build with cutting edge technologies for web and mobile applications, such as python, django and React js.
Released as Open Source under the GNU affero license and commited to remain Open Source and freely available.
High internationalization standards and locallization in over 50 different languages.
Compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) 2.1 AA
Functionality and application design capable of being compliant with GDPR as well as with other data protection regulations.
Extensive functionality for enabling authors to build the best and most engaging learning experiences and to run high quality online courses at scale.
A thriving community of contributors engaged in driving the functionality and capabilities of the platform forward.
Uninterrupted development and improvement to the codebase to continue evolving and providing a growing range of functionalities for learners, instructors and Authors.
Designed to be improved, extended and customized via multiple extension points.
Documentation for Open edX users who are following the master version of the platform.
This interactive documentation documents, and lets you interact directly with the different APIs and endpoints.
Have a better understanding of the Open edX platform and take advantage of functionalities to create great online courses.
Open edX® is an open-source learning platform originally created by MIT and Harvard to power large-scale online education. It allows organizations to build customized learning environments for MOOCs, employee training, and hybrid education models.
The platform is used by governments, universities, corporations, and NGOs around the world — including institutions like Harvard, MIT, and the Government of Portugal — to deliver engaging, scalable digital learning experiences.
Open edX® includes several core applications:
LMS (Learning Management System): Where learners access courses.
Studio: The authoring tool for course creators.
Aspects: The new analytics suite that provides data-driven insights.
Micro frontends & XBlocks: Enable modular design, integrations, and extensibility.
edX.org is a learning site powered by the Open edX® platform.
Open edX® is the technology itself — available for any organization to host, customize, and scale independently.
Scalability: Proven to support millions of learners.
Flexibility: 100% customizable and modular architecture.
Cost-efficiency: No license fees — open-source freedom.
Innovation: Rapidly evolving through an active global community.
Ownership: Your data, your platform, your brand.
As one of the leading Open edX® service providers worldwide, Edunext offers:
Fully managed Hosting on the Cloud or in your own infrastructure.
Consulting and platform optimization through our edg·on™ Consulting service.
Custom development, integrations, and theming.
Upgrades, migrations, and analytics setup with Aspects.
Ongoing support and training for administrators and instructors.
Yes. With Edunext Hosting, the platform runs on Kubernetes-based architecture, ensuring:
24/7 uptime monitoring.
Automated backups and updates.
Enterprise-grade encryption and compliance.
Optional staging environments for safe testing.
Absolutely. Open edX® supports integration with:
WordPress, Drupal, or Richie CMS for marketing sites.
WooCommerce or Shopify for course monetization.
LTI 1.3 tools and thousands of web apps through APIs and hooks.
Edunext also provides custom integration services tailored to your stack.
Recent releases include Palm (2024) and Quince (2024), with Redwood (2025) currently in rollout.
Each new version brings performance improvements, new micro frontends, accessibility updates, and enhanced analytics through Aspects.
👉 See our article on the latest Open edX® versions
You can start in three ways:
Try our demo: Request your Open edX® demo
Host your own instance: With Edunext Hosting
Book a consultation: With edg·on™ Consulting to design your strategy.
