Open edX Conference Presentations (2014)
The first Open edX Conference was a huge success, and we had lots of interesting presentations. This page links to the slides and recordings of those presentations, so that you can watch them whenever you want.
Keynotes & Breakout Sessions
Speaker(s) | Title | Date & Time | Track | Location | Slides | Video |
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Beth Porter, Ned Batchelder | The View from edX | Nov 18, 1:00 PM | Keynote | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Deepak Phatak | Technology Enabled Learning Ushering in the MOOCs era through SWAYAM | Nov 18, 1:45 PM | Keynote | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Yasumasa Watanabe, Hitoshi Kawasaki | Open edX for mobile optimization: The Japanese MOOC ‘gacco’ | Nov 18, 2:30 PM | Hosting and Adopting | Byerly | ||
Bertrand Marron | Story of APIs | Nov 18, 2:30 PM | APIs and Integrations | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Lorena Barba | Teaching Numerical Computing to STEM students with Open edX | Nov 18, 2:30 PM | Research and Pedagogy | Sheerr | ||
Andy Parsons | Powered by Open edX | Nov 18, 3:10 PM | Hosting and Adopting | Byerly | ||
Xavier Antoviaque, Calen Pennington | XBlock Tutorial and Demos | Nov 18, 3:10 PM | APIs and Integrations | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Piotr Mitros | MOOCs, Learning, and Pedagogy | Nov 18, 3:10 PM | Research and Pedagogy | Sheerr | ||
Feanil Patel | Hosting Architecture at edX | Nov 18, 3:50 PM | Hosting and Adopting | Byerly | ||
Phil McGachey | LTI Integration | Nov 18, 3:50 PM | APIs and Integrations | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Philippe Chiu | Analytics with Splunk | Nov 18, 3:50 PM | Research and Pedagogy | Sheerr | ||
Gerald Sussman | An Educational Vision: The Message of Programming | Nov 19, 10:00 AM | Keynote | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Ignacio Despujol | Open edX Onsite | Nov 19, 1:00 PM | Hosting and Adopting | Byerly | ||
Daniel Hickey, Kerri Lemie, Damian Ewens, Lorena Barba, Michael Amigot | Open Badges | Nov 19, 1:00 PM | Developing and Innovation | Sheerr | ||
Andy Armstrong | Open edX + UI | Nov 19, 1:00 PM | Architecture | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Karl Mehta, Afshin Shafie | Open edX Cloud Services | Nov 19, 1:40 PM | Hosting and Adopting | Byerly | ||
John Cox | Third-Party Auth | Nov 19, 1:40 PM | Developing and Innovation | Sheerr | ||
Diana Huang | Using the Shopping Cart | Nov 19, 1:40 PM | Architecture | Radcliffe Gym | ||
Carson Gee, Peter Pinch | Git-based Courses | Nov 19, 2:20 PM | Hosting and Adopting | Byerly | ||
Jason Bau | Direct access to Courseware | Nov 19, 2:20 PM | Developing and Innovation | Sheerr | ||
Open edX Analytics | Nov 19, 2:20 PM | Architecture | Radcliffe Gym |
Lightning Talks
Speaker | Title | Slides | Video |
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Xavier Antoviaque | jQuery-XBlock: Loading XBlocks Remotely | ||
Samuel Soubeyran | Social Interactions & Gamification in MOOCs | ||
Carlos Turro | Developing XBlocks @ UPValencia | ||
Ben Weeks | LaTeX2edX | ||
Nate Aune | Open edX and Docker | ||
Felipe Montoya | Powering white label initiatives through open edX microsites | ||
Joe Blaylock | (partly) Self-Service Certificates | ||
Steven Burch | XBlock Factory | ||
Justin Goodhew | Accredible | ||
Dee Kanejiya | Cognii | ||
Julie Mullen | Invitation to a Conversation about Adaptive Learning Tools for Open edX | no slides | |
Jonathan Peter | edX through the eyes of a non-developer | ||
Nikhil Dubbaka | rePatcha | ||
Dave Ormsbee | Where do Grades Come From? | ||
Chris Dodge | McKinsey Academy Technical Review | ||
Molly de Blanc | Free, Libre, Open Source edX |
Hackathon Demos
Unfortunate, the video for the hackathon demos didn't come out very well, but it's better than nothing!
Video Part 1: https://plus.google.com/113815792917900734665/posts/eVpYQUEejTm
Time | Project | Collaborators | Slides/Other |
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1:22 | Git/Split | Ross Strader, Nimisha Asthagiri | |
7:12 | Course graphing/versioning | Steve Vergennes, Lars, Rama, Adam |
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10:42 (no audio) | Studio editing of XBlocks | Steve Burch |
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13:37 (audio resumes at 14:09) | Accessible Drag & Drop | Colin Fredericks, Mark Sadecki |
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14:46 (no audio, audio resumes at 20:20) | Accessible Captions | Mark Sadecki, Omar Al-Ithawi, Cole Shaw |
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22:50-end | Student Traversal | Dennis Jen, Brian Wilson | |
(no recording) | Require JS Optimizer in the LMS |
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Video Part 2: https://plus.google.com/events/ce2u86uq3vk79ds90sico69g9d0?authkey=COH48K3Qu8vsSg
Time | Project | Collaborators | Slides/Other |
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0:00 (in progress, no video) | Toward Learner Profiles | Frances Botsford |
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3:09 | Multi-Containerizing EdX with Docker |
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6:08 | Containerizing the Analytics Pipeline | Gabe Mulley |
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8:57 (video returns at 10:20) | Libsass and Grunt |
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12:33 | XBlock Services |
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14:42 | XBlock on Py3 | DB |
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15:34 | Cassandra | Jim Abramson, Carlos Rocha |
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19:18 | Certificate generation from grade reports |
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22:00 | Break, Record, Document | Juan, Stephane | |
25:07 | Static code analysis/Devstack | Ben Patterson, Corey |
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30:00 | upgrade django |