2023 Open edX Conference Session Talks & Tutorials
All videos for this conference, previous conferences, meetups, and more can be found on our YouTube channel, http://openedx.org/youtube . Visit the channel to see interviews with many of the speakers done at this year’s conference.
Tuesday, 28 March (Tutorials aka Workshops)
Tutorial | Speaker | Slides/materials | YouTube link |
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Hands on Modern Mobile Dev for the Open edX Platform | @Volodymyr Chekyrta | Slides: https://shorturl.at/nxC67 Resources for app theming and code snippets: https://shorturl.at/oxBLU 
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How to use (team-based) ORA in your course | @Udo Ouwerkerk |
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Noob to Master: Rapid Onboarding to Open edX Course Builds | @Elizabeth Gordon , Christy Foote-Dizdarevic |
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Micro-Frontend Micro-Workshop | @Brian Smith , @Adolfo Brandes | The materials for this tutorial live in 2 repositories. The mfe-workshop-2023 repository contains instructions for setting up a development environment to work on Micro-Frontends. The frontend-app-workshop-example repository contains example applications. | No Video |
Accessible Course Authoring and Administration | @Jeff Witt |
| Slides available on the wiki: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3734077463 |
Designing Peer Review Assignments at Scale | Meghan Perdue, Jessica Sandland |
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What the RST?? Documenting the Open edX Platform | @Sarina Canelake @Feanil Patel | 
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Using Open edX Hooks for Custom Code | @Felipe Montoya | 
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Wednesday, 29 March (Keynotes)
Talk | Speaker | Slides/Materials | YouTube Link |
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State of Open edX | @Edward Zarecor @Jenna Makowski | 
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Keynote | Anant Agarwal | 2U’s Chief Platform Officer and founder of edX, guiding and furthering edX’s vision to increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere. Agarwal brings his expertise in building powerful online learning platforms to align product and technology at edX, a 2U company, as it creates the world’s most comprehensive free-to-degree online learning marketplace. |
Wednesday, 29 March (Talks)
Thursday, 30 March (Keynotes)
Talk | Speaker | Slides/Materials | YouTube |
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Keynote | Justin Reich | Justin Reich is an educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. He is the Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab which aspires to design, implement and research the future of teacher learning. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education from Harvard University Press. He is the host of the TeachLab podcast, and five open online courses on edX. Justin is a former fellow and faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Keynote | Karl Fogel | Karl Fogel is an open source software developer, author, and consultant. He has been active in free and open source software since 1992. In 2005 he wrote Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project (O’Reilly Media), based partly on his experiences in the Subversion open source version control system project. He is a founding partner at Open Tech Strategies, LLC, where he helps organizations launch and engage with open source projects. He has worked at CollabNet, Google, Canonical, O’Reilly Media, and Code for America / Civic Commons, all as an open source specialist. He has also been an Open Internet Tools Project Fellow at the New America Foundation and a member of the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative. He is currently a member of the Apache Software Foundation and President of QuestionCopyright.org. |
Thursday, 30 March (Talks)
Talk | Speaker | Slides/Materials | YouTube link |
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How the Open edX platform compares against the most notable competitors | @Natalia Vynogradenko @Stefania Trabucchi |  | |
Working with SME’s: Strategies for Learning Design Success | @Ildi Morris | 
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Crunching the k8s Numbers | @Jhony Avella | 
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Unlocking LTI: How We Decoupled the LTI 1.3 Launch from the Open edX Platform | @Michael Roytman | 
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rq2zGbsVVo&pp=ygURb3BlbiBlZHggMjAyMyBsdGk%3D |
Navigate Your Data Lake with OARS | @Jill Vogel @Brian Mesick | 
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9RvjpCLS1g&pp=ygUcb3BlbiBlZHggMjAyMyBkYXRhIGxha2Ugb2Fycw%3D%3D |
The Learner is not (only) a user: learning experience design is more than marketing | @Ilaria Botti | 
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Thinking Out Loud: Bringing Social Annotation to Your Open edX Course | Xandi Wright | 
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkwOzYeqWTk&list=PL87xhvJSz2W5rViUF9-cf6xvYAZMlJAFV&index=1&pp=iAQB |
Safer: The History and Future of Open edX Security | @Alison Langston , @Phillip Shiu , @Feanil Patel | 
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2023 Open edX Product Strategy: Getting to a Core Product | @Jenna Makowski | 
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The two way street: how on-campus and MOOC classes influence each other | Michelle Tomasik, Jennifer French |
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We’re Losing Them! How to engage Gen Z and A to a learning process | @Alexandra Nabokina , Kateryna Panasenko | 
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Modular Domains: Where We Want the Open edX Frontend To Go, and When | @Adolfo Brandes | 
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