We are a social enterprise dedicated to expanding access to education and deepening its impact for millions of learners.
Our History
Building on a commitment to educational ideals.
Axim Collaborative is a joint endeavor by Harvard and MIT. It is the successor to edX, the online learning platform launched by the two universities in 2012. edX was created with the goal of increasing access to high-quality learning opportunities, advancing digital learning technologies, and enhancing teaching and learning on campus and online through research. Today, Axim and its trustees bring forth this pioneering experience in online education matched with a dedication to making a meaningful difference in post-secondary education for students everywhere.
Our mission is to make learning more accessible, more relevant, and more effective for all learners to drive strong student outcomes.
The Open edX Project
Axim Collaborative stewards the open-source Open edX project, a learner-centric, massively scalable online learning platform and community designed to provide effective and personalized digital learning experiences. The Open edX platform is available to anyone to download and deploy to deliver courses and programs of study. It is utilized by major universities, enterprises, governments, and NGOs, serving millions of students around the globe.
Senior Team
Stephanie Khurana
Chief Executive Officer
Hania Abu-Eid
Vice President, Strategic Communications
Peter Brau
Chief Financial Officer
Sandra Brown
Deputy General Counsel, Head of Legal
Annabel (Annie) Cellini
Vice President, Open edX® Partnerships & Ecosystem Growth
Anna Valuev Coleman
Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives
Scott Durand
Vice President, Partnerships
Stephanie Miller
Vice President, Data and Impact
Antonia Powell
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Operations & Talent
Philipp Schmidt
Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation
Mike Smith
Senior Fellow
Nicole Fadavi Snyder
Vice President, Partnerships
Louis Soares
Vice President, Partnerships
Joel Straker
Vice President, Partnerships
Ed Zarecor
Senior Vice President, Open edX® Platform
Our Board of Trustees
Dimitris Bertsimas
Vice Provost for Open Learning, MIT
Katie Hammer
Vice President for Finance, MIT
Bridget Terry Long
Saris Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard GSE
Provost, Harvard University; Co-chair, Axim Board
John Manning
Alan G. Spoon
Board Member: MIT, Ralliant, IAC, Danaher
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University
Dustin Tingley
Meredith Weenick
Executive Vice President, Harvard University
Vice Provost for Faculty, MIT; Co-chair, Axim Board
Maria C. Yang
Collaborators
Digital innovators driving education equity
Patrick Rossol-Allison
Dr. Mark Sanchez
Associate Vice President, Learning Enterprise, Arizona State University
President, Office of the Superintendent, Southwestern College
Renee Ducre
Ed Smith-Lewis
Julian Thompson
Dustin Tingley
Director of Strategic Technology, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard
Zac Wang
Meg Benner
Managing Director, The Learning Agency
Marisa Bold
Ajita Talwalker Menon
Head of Strategic Growth and Development, Calbright College
President and Chief Executive Officer, Calbright College
Kathryn McCarthy
Cynthia Breazeal
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Learning Sciences, Georgia State University
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; MIT Dean for Digital Learning; MIT
Distinguished University Professor, George E. Smith Eminent Scholar’s Chair and Chair Computer Information Systems; Department of Computer Information Systems; Georgia State University
Jálynn Castleman-Smith
Bala Ramesh
Operations Associate, MDRC
Research Analyst, MDRC
Stanley Dai
Marjorie Dorimé-Williams
Senior Research Associate, MDRC
Founder and Managing Partner; CampusEvolve
Vice President and Chief Information Officer; Indiana Tech
Maria Langworthy
Jeff Leichty
Dean of Academic Affairs; Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology
CEO, Education Design Lab
Kerry McKittrick
David Deming
Harvard Business School Faculty Co-Director; Harvard Project on Workforce
Joseph Fuller
Lane Glenn
President, Northern Essex Community College
Norman Bier
Dhanfu Elston, Ph.D.
Norman Palmer
Dave Savory
Director of Technology & Innovation, Complete College America
Co-Founder, VP of Experiential Learning, Riipen
Mara Woody, Ed.D.
James Runcie
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Riipen
CEO and Co-Founder, Ed Advancement
Vice President, Technology Hub, Ed Advancement
President, Virginia State University
Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success, Virginia State University
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the President, Virginia State University
Alexis J. Brooks-Walter, Ph.D.
Rodney D. Hall
Dr. Marcia Ballinger
Thomas Benjamin
Lisa Brown
James DeVaney
James Cleaver
Sarah Dysart
Chief Marketing Officer, Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan
Chief Learning Officer, Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan
Jeremy Nelson
Joan Remski, Ph.D.
Carrie Shumaker
Kristyn Manoukian
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Strategy Officer, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Program Director, Learning Agency
Dr. Caitlin Mills
Liz McCreary
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Chief Impact Officer, Digital Harbor Foundation
Stacy Caldwell
Donna Linderman
Casey O’Brien, Ed.D.
Nisha Atre
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Success and Transformational Initiatives, SUNY
Executive Director, SUNY Impact Foundation
Executive Director, Washington Student Achievement Council
Michael Meotti
Daniel M. Oliver, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Washington Student Achievement Council
Associate Director of Research and Program Evaluation, Washington Student Achievement Council
KC Deane
Sarah Weiss
Associate Director, College Access and Support, Washington Student Achievement Council
Executive Director, Cofounder, Quill.org
Senior Director of Impact, Quill.org
Caitlin Augustin
Gregory Wolniak, PhD
Vice President, Product & Programs, DataKind
Head of Education Initiatives, DataKind
Aimee Eubanks Davis
Lorraine Anderson King
Michelle Foley
Tarush Lall
Ayana Tapper
Jean Rhodes, PhD
Nancy McNamara
Ania Sanchez
Alex Werntz, PhD
Jefferson Pestronk
Director of Research, MentorPRO, Associate Director, Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, UMass Boston
Executive Director, Modern States Education Alliance
Gina Romano, Ph.D.
Dena M. Gromet
Assistant Vice President, Workforce Data, Analytics, and Outcomes, Ivy Tech Community College
Executive Director, Behavior Change for Good Initiative, University of Pennsylvania
Angela Duckworth
Katy Milkman
Faculty Co-Director, Behavior Change for Good Initiative, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Co-Director, Behavior Change for Good Initiative, University of Pennsylvania
Richa Sharma
Romain Puech
Lead for Personalized Learning, Open Learning, MIT
Researcher, Operations Research Center, MIT
Jennifer Carlson
Karla Robles-Reyes
Executive Director, Apprenti
Chief Program Officer, OneGoal
Kirat Doshi
David Ferreira
Senior Managing Director, Direct Impact, OneGoal
Provost, Charter Oak State College
Nancy Taylor
Kristen Fox
Director of Workforce Development, Charter Oak State College
Chief Executive Officer, Business-Higher Education Forum
Chief Programs Officer, Business-Higher Education Forum
Senior Director, Business-Higher Education Forum
Luke Dowden, Ed.D.
Monica Rogers
Vice Chancellor for Digital Learning & Transformation, Alamo Colleges District
Director of AlamoONLINE Student Support, Alamo Colleges District
Vice President, Strategy and Academic Affairs, Rio Salado College
Janelle Elias
Sasha Flores
Project and Change Manager, Rio Salado College
Van Davis, Ph.D.
Megan Raymond
Executive Director, WCET and Vice President, Digital Learning, WICHE
Senior Director, Membership and Programs, WCET
Tara Laughlin, Ed.D
Megan Raymond
Senior Director, Skills Visibility, Education Design Lab
Education Designer, Skills Visibility, Education Design Lab
Nishita Chheda
Naomi Boyer, Ph.D
Education Designer, Skills Visibility, Education Design Lab
President, NOME Solutions
Leslie Noggle
Rob Clark
Senior Director, Assessment & Psychometrics, Western Governors University
Senior Director, Program Experience Strategy, Western Governors University
Faculty Chair, Communication, Rio Salado College
Julie Cober
Jennifer Gresko
Faculty Chair, Educator Preparation Programs, Rio Salado College
Executive Director, Alabama Possible
Deputy Director, Alabama Possible
Mike Marriner
Molly Gazin
Tim Hogan
Paige Swanstein
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Roadtrip Nation
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Student Basic Needs Coalition
Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Institutional Programs, UNCF
Chief Information Officer, UNCF
Professor of Government, Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard
Senior Director, Strategy Development, UNCF Institute for Capacity Building
Regents’ Professor and Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair; Director, Center for Digital Innovation; Department of Computer Information Systems; Georgia State University
Hao Loi, Ed.D
Professor of Computer Science; Coordinator of Computer Science Program; Quinisigmond Community College
Arun Rai
Resource Management Analyst, MDRC
Makoto Toyoda
Research Assistant, MDRC
Diane Wren
Manager, Campus Partnerships at Open SUNY, State University of New York
Kim Scalzo
Executive Director of Open SUNY, State University of New York
Dan Feinberg
Aisha Francis, Ph.D.
Christopher Randles
President and CEO; Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor; University of Central Florida
Lisa Larson, EdD
Marvin J. Loiseau, Ed.D
Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Co-Director; Harvard Project on Workforce
Co-Director; Harvard Project on Workforce
James Glapa-Grossklag
Allison M. Dolan-Wilson
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
Vice-President, Institutional Advancement, Executive Director, NECC Foundation, Inc.
Senior Vice President for Strategy & Chief of Staff, Complete College America
Director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI), Carnegie Mellon University
Makola M. Abdullah, Ph.D.
Nicholas Cheng
Director, Institutional Research
Lorain County Community College
President, Lorain County Community College
Special Advisor to the President, Founding Executive Director of the Center for Academic Innovation Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan
Executive Director, Lorain County Community College Foundation
Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Digital Learning, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Chief Technology Officer, Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan
Senior Vice Chancellor for Student Success, SUNY
President and CEO, CredLens
Katherine McConachie
Peter Gault
Chief External Affairs Officer, Braven
Founder & CEO, Braven
Founder & Executive Director, ResearchEd
Vice President, Development, Braven
Alina Yang
Rachel Rush-Marlowe
Director of Operations, ResearchEd
Program Director, ResearchEd
Co-founder, MentorPRO, Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology, UMass Boston
Policy Associate, ResearchEd
Director of Product Success, MentorPRO
Co-founder, MentorPRO
Assistant Vice President, School of IT and Entrepreneurship, Ivy Tech Community College
Senior Vice President, Workforce and Careers, Ivy Tech Community College
Molly Dodge
Shabbir Qutbuddin
Stephanie Blochinger
Jennifer Thornton
Vincent J. Granito, Jr., Ph.D.
Beth Siwek
Professor, Psychology; AI Assessment Faculty Fellow, Teaching and Learning Center, Lorain County Community College
Faculty Chair, Health Sciences, Rio Salado College
John Maycock
Mariah Schuemann
CEO & Co-Founder, The Advisor Network
Instructional Designer, Miami Dade College
Manisha Mishra
Chandra Scott
Associate Director of Program Success, Roadtrip Nation
Co-founder & President, Roadtrip Nation
Our Team
