The world’s largest educational services company works with Open edX.

Revolutionizing Online Learning Together

The Customer

Renowned global learning company

(Experts in educational publishing, assessment services for schools, corporations, and individual students worldwide).

Pearson VUE: Open edX innovation technology

It offers flexible online courses from leading universities across diverse knowledge fields.

Leader in delivering effective learning experiences

(Provides interactive educational systems and mastering platforms).

Scope

TEAM SUPPORT TO Infrastructure Provisioning & Operation.

Dedicated Team to support Infrastructure Provisioning & Operation, Custom Development & Custom Integrations.

Development of an Operations Portal that allows Pearson VUE admins to manage their partnered institutions, Institution administrators, their purchased Licenses and the enrollments of students.

Development of an Institution Portal that allows Pearson’s Partners to manage their instructors, students and courses.

3rd party integrations to allow instructor-led courses.

Challenges

The technical challenges of customizing and extending the platform to meet Pearson business needs, and accomplish growth on the number of courses and students, and drive 3rd party certifications through improving certification preparation.

Seamless data synchronization

to make course content available on external platforms and integration with their existing CRM.

Managing and developing specific features

including customization of course management and prerequisites, was also crucial to enhance the learning platforms powered by Open edX.

In 2020, Pearson forged a strategic partnership with edunext, entrusting them with consulting services for Open edX technologies. edunext brought the necessary expertise and knowledge to overcome various challenges faced by Pearson. They tackled data and analytics, custom branding, platform extensions, custom integrations, e-commerce, custom development, and staff training, among other aspects.

Infrastructure Provisioning & Operation

  • Support Platform maintenance & operation (Open edX developments and upgrades)
  • Incident Response & Escalation
  • Data & Analytics (Platform monitoring)

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Custom development

  • Ongoing features & platform enhancements.
  • Branding and Theming
  • Coupons & Programs discounts
  • Plugins for the Open edX platform
  • Independently Deployed Applications (IDAs)
  • X-blocks

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Custom integrations

  • Significant increase in active users.
  • Higher-quality education experiences for learners worldwide.
  • By leveraging Edunext’s expertise and support.
  • Seamlessly synchronize data, expand their reselling capabilities.
  • Enhance their platform features to meet the specific needs of their community.