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We are an official Open edX® Partner, offering reliable and scalable online learning to providers around the world.

Trusted by Organizations Worldwide

Helping Learning Providers Around the World

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Higher Education

Helping institutions harness online learning for the future of education

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Corporations

Enabling businesses to advance their educational initiatives with Open edX®

Governments and Academies

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Advancing eLearning for governments & academies

OpenCraft Solutions

Reliable solutions from the most experienced team in the Open edX® community

Bespoke Learning Solutions

Looking to build a new online learning experience, and nothing quite fits? We specialize in creating custom software, extensions, interactive problems, and other features to make your dream come alive.

Full Product Design

Realize your vision with clean aesthetic and overarching User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design. Your learners and clients should find your product easy to use and easy on the eyes. That’s where we come in.

Open edX® Fully Managed Hosting

OpenCraft provides managed hosting for Open edX® deployments small enough to serve a single organization or large enough for a nation state. We handle upgrades and uptime so you can focus on upskilling.

Support and Maintenance

Our 10+ years experience supporting the Open edX® platform means you can focus on your goals and not on technical issues. Our deep community connections and our focus on open source contributions dramatically reduce maintenance costs, and allow you to make updates quickly, without breaking things.

Why Choose Open edX®?

Flexible

Open edX® is the best open source learning management software (LMS) that enables online campuses, instructor-led courses, degree programs, and self-paced courses, all using one single platform.

Trusted

Developed by MIT and Harvard, the Open edX® platform is used by many of the foremost learning providers across education institutions, enterprise, and government organizations.

Scalable

Originally envisioned for MOOCs, the Open edX® platform has evolved to provide a massively scalable learning software technology that enables organizations around the world to design customized and engaging online learning platforms.

Open Source

Open edX® is entirely open source and is free for its users. This means that your learning solution benefits from the contributions of thousands of dedicated software developers who follow the open software credo and work on making the platform better every day. You reap the benefits of the latest technical innovations that are automatically made available to you today and tomorrow.

Established

Open edX® is the learning platform of choice for 9 out of 10 leading universities, 20+ governments and NGOs, and global organizations such as Microsoft and IBM. Since its inception, Open edX® has made a name for itself as one of the leading learning solutions, continually evolving to meet the changing needs of learners and educators worldwide.

Customizable

Open edX®’s unique features make it a powerful eLearning platform. Thanks to the availability of custom plugins, enterprise development, multisites, LTI Advantage, custom xblocks, and independently deployed applications, the platform allows users to create personalized eLearning solutions with enormous flexibility. With every new release, the platform becomes even more optimized and efficient.

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Open edX® is the preferred open source learning platform of many top education providers, companies, and government agencies. It is easy to tailor to specific needs, has a user-friendly interface, and is free of charge.

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Meet OpenCraft

Why Teams Choose OpenCraft

As a Open edX® preferred service provider with over 10 years of experience, OpenCraft can help you implement and customize the latest release to create a tailored online learning environment.

OpenCraft works closely with Axim Collaborative which runs the Open edX® project and is a nonprofit organization that is led by Harvard and MIT. Axim focuses on inclusive learning and education, collaborating with educational institutions, governments, and other organizations to develop and evaluate new approaches to learning and pedagogy; invest in new learning models that combine the best of online and in-person; and promote the adoption of best practices across the education continuum.

About us

Trusted Community Members

OpenCraft's position in the Open edX® community means that we can advise you not only on how to solve your problems today, but on how to prepare for changes down the line. Our continued commitment to the platform means we are engaged in design decisions, version releases, and other key decisions.

Open edX® Core Contributors

Working with OpenCraft means having a say in how the Open edX® platform is developed and championed. We represent our clients in community working groups, tackling product design, marketing, development, and more. Our team sports more Core Contributors than any other organization in the community.

OpenCraft's Values

We work according to our core values: openness, quality, commitment and empathy.

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Openness

We believe in transparency, honesty, and open source. Our aim is to share our work with the community, ensuring it benefits both our clients and humanity. Radical honesty guides the way we work.

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Quality

Our team of senior professionals delivers high-quality code and expert support. With deep expertise in Python, JavaScript, and Open edX® technologies, we ensure top-tier results for every project.

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Commitment

We do what we say, and do it on time. We are committed to keeping our promises and delivering on time, consistently meeting deadlines and exceeding expectations. This is how we foster trust and reliability.

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Empathy

We pay close attention to how our actions affect others, aiming to be kind and considerate. When tough decisions are required, we handle them with care and respect for everyone involved.

I have worked with OpenCraft on multiple projects in the past years, and I am still amazed by how consistent, professional, and responsive they are. I can rely on their support and quality of the code, always. They continuously contribute to the Open edX® platform.
Natalia Berdnikov | Senior Project Manager | edX
OpenCraft has been an invaluable partner in making our vision for Cloudera OnDemand a reality. No other Open edX® provider can rival OpenCraft's deep level of knowledge of the platform, or match their skill in customizing it.
Rowan McVey | Former Program Manager | Cloudera
OpenCraft developed two custom products for my team to expand the Open edX® platform's capabilities. Their performance and attention to customer satisfaction exceeded my expectations with seamless integrations.
Stefan Esposito | Instructional Development Manager | HarvardX | Opinion independent of organization
We sought a partner who shared our values on open source, knew the Open edX® community well, and delivered high quality service. OpenCraft did just that and more, with rock-solid service and a willingness to explore ways to provide more value to our university community.
Michael Greene | Associate Director | Duke Learning Innovation | Duke University | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft has successfully delivered several complex features in the Open edX® platform, and are recognized throughout the Community as experts in development of XBlocks. We count on OpenCraft to develop key parts of our roadmap on time and at a high quality.
Steve Magoun | Former Engineering Director | edX
OpenCraft is fantastic to work with. They customized our Open edX® instance allowing for the very specific use case we needed. The high level of customization achieved thanks to OpenCraft is critical to our ability to train policy makers around the world.
Charlotte Tuminelli | Senior Training Manager | Harvard Kennedy School | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft matched all of our needs, quickly and satisfactorily. This is a service we would recommend. Everything works great and there is always somebody on the other side of the email.
Ramon Ovelar | Researcher | University of the Basque Country
OpenCraft's working relationship with the Open edX® Community allows changes to be quickly integrated in the latest Open edX® release, allowing everyone to benefit. The team provided fantastic support on a very complex issue with a very tight deadline.
Ethan Barden | MeriSTEM Project Coordinator | Australian National University
OpenCraft's work is professional, accurate, always on time and with a smile. They are true leaders of the Open Source community around the Open edX® technology.
Anne Lifshits Agmon | CTO | Campus-IL | Israel's National Project for Digital Learning
OpenCraft was a pleasure to work with, helping through every stage of the process. From idea generation, prototyping, construction, deployment, and testing. They were responsive to my needs and completed the work on time and on budget.
Bill Wisser | Sr. Director of Learning Technologies | Harvard Graduate School of Education | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft’s strong collaboration skills, excellence in their craft, and harmonic practices lead to significant contributions to the Open edX® ecosystem. This results in a profound resonance of the edX mission to provide quality education to the global community.
Nimisha Asthagiri | Chief Architect | edX
LabXchange is committed to open source, and so with OpenCraft's deep investment in the development of Open edX®, they were an obvious partner for us. OpenCraft built the LabXchange platform and ensured a productive collaboration with the technical team at edX.
Robert A Lue | Former Faculty Director & Principal Investigator | Harvard LabXchange