# edX **Domain:** Online Education / Distributed Learning **Doc Type:** Platform Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[The Open University]], open education, [[Cognitive Exteriorization]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **edX** is an online-learning platform through which universities and other institutions distribute courses to learners beyond a physical campus. ## Corpus Context edX is part of the externalization and distribution of cognition: instruction becomes persistent, searchable and geographically decoupled from the institution that produced it. ## Directory Context This platform is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [edX](https://home.edx.org/)