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)
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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 (Deactivated) |
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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)
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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. |
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Wednesday, 29 March (Talks)
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Product Review is Here for You | @Ryan O'Connell @Jenna Makowski | 
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Building Collaborative Classes - Borrowing from Open Source Practices | @Xavier Antoviaque | 
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Integrating the Open edX platform with more than 5000 web applications for automated tasks | @Juan Camilo Montoya | 
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A Practical Guide to Backend Caching | @Dave Ormsbee (Axim) | 
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Product Roadmap Roundtable | Product Working Group (organizer for questions: @Sarina Canelake ) | 
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Running a MOOC on the Open edX Platform: Practices after Managing Over 100 Course Runs | Mary Ellen Wiltrout | 
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Reimagining Course Discovery | Syed Ansab Waqar Gillani, @Dawoud Sheraz , @Irfan Ahmad , Umar Ali Choudhry |
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An Opinionated Vision for Open edX Extensibility and Customization | @David Joy (Deactivated) | 
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Open edX Platform Support: Top 10 Issues Which Make Users Cry | Iana Loviagina | 
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Successful Strategies for Producing & Teaching with Video | Rebecca Rumbel | 
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Product Development in the Open: From Visibility to Collaboration | @Jenna Makowski @Braden MacDonald @Dave Ormsbee (Axim) | 
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Don’t Miss the Event Bus | @Robert Raposa | 
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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. |
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Thursday, 30 March (Talks)
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How the Open edX platform compares against the most notable competitors | @Natalia Vynogradenko @Stefania Trabucchi |  |
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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 | 
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Navigate Your Data Lake with OARS | @Jill Vogel @Brian Mesick | 
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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 | 
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Safer: The History and Future of Open edX Security | @Alison Langston , @Phillip Shiu (Deactivated) , @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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Thursday, 30 March (Lightning Talks)
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Talk Track 1: Pedagogy & Instructional Design | |||
A MELP approach for Open edX LMS: evaluating the impact of open courses | @Esteban Etcheverry | 
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Open edX project's key role in the educational transformation in Uruguay: opportunities for Latam | Carinna Balsamo, Paul Cevallos, Martín Anza |
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Promising Results from a Blended Inclusive Teaching Micro-Credential | Darcy Gordon | 
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Why “About this course” might be a bad way to start | Alan Jameson, Robyn Belair | 
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Talk Track 2: Product Development & Usage | |||
Examining Patterns of Content Use with Coursegraph | @Jennifer A. Akana | 
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Online assessment done right! | @Anastasiia Abyzova | 
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Fast Course Creation using an Excel Template | Nacho Despujol Zabala | 
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Using the Open edX Platform as a Country-Wide Higher-Ed LMS: Project Start-up | @Elizabeth Gordon |
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🔥 Potsie v2 💥 Learning Analytics Charts That Rock! 🤘 | @Julien Maupetit |
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How is an Open edX Release Created? | @Jorge Londoño | 
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Build Fast but Don’t Break Things | @Kyle McCormick | 
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Multiple Tutor environments with TVM | @Maria Fernanda Magallanes Z |  TVM demo: |
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Migrating a comprehensive theme from the legacy frontend to the MFE | @Piotr Surowiec | 
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A paradigm for porting a Django View to an MFE Application | @Nathan Sprenkle | 
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What is the most performant / sustainable open source LRS in 2023? | Wilfried Baradat |
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Commerce Coordinator: Connecting Open edX with Commerce | @Phillip Shiu (Deactivated) @Glenn Martin | 
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