Los Gatos' OpenEd Launches Public API

Los Gatos-based OpenEd has announced that its catalog of more than 250,000 standard-aligned videos and games can now be easily used by other websites or apps using a new publicly available API.

This allows any EdTech offering to easily tap in to OpenEd's searchable, teacher-curated catalog – or contribute their own educational content to OpenEd, using a simple API call.

Also, as a large scale demonstration of the API in use, as of Nov. 14, the full source code of the OpenEd website is available open source via MIT license on GitHub. For details on the OpenEd API and source code, please click here.

"OpenEd has the most extensive collection of Common Core learning resources available today," said Tony Thomas, founder of Edcite. "Their easy-to-use API allows us to make these resources directly available to teachers and students in our application."

Lisa Blum, vice president of marketing at OpenEd, said, "While building OpenEd we noticed that there were few tools and APIs available for accessing resources on learning standards.

"This made our job much harder, but also made us see that other EdTech products could use access to Common Core aligned resources. If you are an EdTech company with a need for API access to our resource catalog or just want to use parts of our website code, we want to help you."

Jonathan Modica, founder and CEO of Nutmeg Education, said, "Using OpenEd's API is an enormous opportunity for a startup like Nutmeg. Access to resources on this scale has, until now, only been reserved for companies willing to work with some of the major publishers.

"Because of OpenEd, we don't need to go down that path. The API offers an incredible amount of resources and was extremely easy for our team to integrate in to our system."