Designed for those who are new to elearning, this course will prepare you with strategies to be a successful online learner.

The edX learning design team has curated some of the most powerful, science-backed techniques which you can start using right away and on any learning platform.

This course will help you answer the following questions:

• How do I take notes during live or recorded instruction? What’s the difference?
• What’s the point of discussions and how should I participate in them to get the most value?
• What can I do if I have trouble concentrating or lack time to complete assignments?
• What is the ideal study environment?

Educational technology is developing rapidly, and that development has presented educators with an opportunity to rethink and improve their pedagogical practices. The concept of blended learning provides a framework to help educators integrate online educational technologies into face-to-face classes purposefully. When done effectively, blended learning has been shown to enhance student engagement and improve students’ learning outcomes.

In this self-paced course, we introduce you to principles and practices of blended learning. We cover the benefits and challenges of creating blended learning experiences, discuss how to design and deliver a successful blended course, and provide specific strategies and examples for using edX content in your classroom. This course is rich with case examples of institutions who have adopted blended learning, with stories shared from faculty around the world. The course also references research on blended learning models, and its impact.

VideoX is an introduction to the video creation process for edX.org. This course is part of the edX Course Creator XSeries and should be taken after completing StudioX.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• identify best practices for video production and implement them in your edX course,
• recognize common pitfalls in the video production process and determine how to avoid such difficulties,
• train your instructor on edX best practices, including edX course segmentation and how to present content on-camera,
• create an effective plan for video production that accounts for time, resources and your production team’s abilities,
• identify the main recording methods used in video production, understand what each method involves (in terms of technical, physical and logistical considerations) and employ them to create high-quality, impactful videos,
• utilize non-linear editing systems to manipulate your raw footage and incorporate graphics, animations and third-party media to produce polished video segments,
• describe the editing process from start to finish,
• encode your finished videos, upload them to edX and incorporate them into your course, and
• how to work with instructors – segmentation and how to talk to the camera

VideoX is a course for everyone and does not require any previous experience in video production. So what are you waiting for? Get started today!

Studio Advanced is a course for experienced course designers in edX Studio – people who have already built at least one online class on the edX platform. If you’re more of an edX beginner, you might want to take StudioX first.

This course has been designed to enable you to dip in and out of learning as you require it, as well as support linear learning pathways.

The course is organized into four main sections: advanced planning, improved procedures, short projects and long projects.

In this course, we will introduce you to edX Studio, edX’s course-authoring tool. This course is ideal for course authors and course teams interested in uncovering the nuts and bolts of building an edX course. We will cover everything you need to know to successfully create your first course on the edX platform, including:

• The basics of course set-up
• Adding course content, including videos, assessments, and interactive components
• Configuring course settings and optimizing the course experience for learners

Through engaging activities and hands-on learning, this course will walk you through the course development process directly in Studio.