The Open Education Project (OPE) leverages modern open source technologies to create an open environment and platform in which educators can create, publish, and operationalize high-quality open source materials, while students require no more than access to a web browser to access them. To achieve this, we have built an open ownership model that starts with high-performance, open data centers providing the hardware resources. This model allows us to exploit Linux and build a rich environment of tools and services to support a novel approach to educational material. It also provides a natural way of leveraging Red Hat cloud hosted platforms for running courses at scale.
In this presentation, we’ll first explore the architecture of OPE, focusing on utilizing the OPE SDK to construct courses with “books” and containers. We then look at how we have hosted large courses on NERC using Red Hat OpenShift AI. We will highlight the successful deployment of OPE on NERC OpenShift, demonstrating how NERC infrastructure supports the flexibility and accessibility of open education. We will conclude with a nod to broader NERC educational efforts beyond OPE that are under exploration.