About edX
- Increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere
- Enhance teaching and learning on campus and online
- Advance teaching and learning through research
edX is the trusted platform for education and learning. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies. As a global nonprofit, edX is transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access. Fulfilling the demand for people to learn on their own terms, edX is reimagining the possibilities of education, providing the highest-quality, stackable learning experiences including the groundbreaking MicroMasters® programs. Supporting learners at every stage, whether entering the job market, changing fields, seeking a promotion or exploring new interests, edX delivers courses for curious minds on topics ranging from data and computer science to leadership and communications. edX is where you go to learn.
Our Global Learning Community
Our students come from every country in the world! Whether you are interested in computer science, languages, engineering, psychology, writing, electronics, biology, or marketing, we have the course for you! Enroll today and learn something new.
Our Difference
We were founded by and continue to be governed by colleges and universities. We are the only leading MOOC provider that is both nonprofit and open source.
Open edX is the open-source platform that powers edX courses and is freely available. With Open edX, educators and technologists can build learning tools and contribute new features to the platform, creating innovative solutions to benefit students everywhere.
Our Impact
We are proud to reflect on the impact that edX and our partner institutions have had on education and learning since our founding in 2012. Follow along on our journey and see where our movement is going next.
2020 edX Impact ReportOver 120 Institutional Partners
Our team is devoted to transforming education. Click any of their names to read their full bio.
Founder and CEO
President and co-CEO
Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
Chief Marketing Officer
Vice President and General Counsel
Vice President of Content Strategy and Partner Success
Vice President of Business Development
Vice President of Engineering
Vice President of Finance
Vice President of Product
Vice President of Learning
Vice President of Sales and Client Success
Senior Director of People and Culture
Provost, Harvard University
Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Founder and CEO
Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost of the University of California, Berkeley
General Partner and Co-Founder, Flybridge Capital Partners
Executive Vice President, Harvard University
Executive Vice President and Treasurer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vice President for Open Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chairman of the Board, Fortive Corporation
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University
The edX University Advisory Board is made up of senior academic leaders from edX's global university partners. They serve as the chief advisory body to edX CEO Anant Agarwal.
Vice-Rector for Industry Relations, RWTH Aachen University
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, Curtin University
Provost, Harvard University
Provost, Georgetown University
President, Sorbonne Université Foundation
Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering
University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Boston University
Vice-President Education / Vice-Rector Magnificus, Delft University of Technology
Chancellor, The University System of Maryland
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic), The University of Adelaide
Vice-Chancellor and President, The Australian National University, 2011 Nobel Laureate Physics
Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Provost and Vice-President Academic, The University of British Columbia
Deputy President and Provost
Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), The University of Queensland
CEO and Co-Founder of Bluemercury Inc.
Former Prime Minister of United Kingdom
Founding Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
Founder and Chairman of Primavera Capital Group
Vice-Chairman of SUN Group
Chairman and CEO of Churchill Capital
Former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
Co-founder of Two Sigma
Chairman of the Board of Fortive Corporation
Founder of GEMS Education
Founder of ITA Software
Working with our xConsortium of university partners, edX is empowering research on pedagogy or learning about learning.
The online environment provides a powerful platform to conduct experiments, exploring how students learn and how faculty can best teach using a variety of novel tools and techniques.
Careers at edX
We are building, partnering, and promoting a software platform that brings together the best universities from all around the world to create courses for everyone, everywhere in the world—but we can’t do it without dedicated and talented people.