2023 Open edX Conference Session Talks & Tutorials

All videos for this conference, previous conferences, meetups, and more can be found on our YouTube channel, open-edx . 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

 

Hands On Modern Mobile Dev for the Open edX Platform

How to use (team-based) ORA in your course

@Udo Ouwerkerk

 

How to use (team-based) ORA in your course

Noob to Master: Rapid Onboarding to Open edX Course Builds

@Elizabeth Gordon , Christy Foote-Dizdarevic

 

Noob to Master: Rapid Onboarding to Open edX Course Builds

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)

 

Slides available on the wiki: 2023 Open edX Conference Session Talks & Tutorials

Designing Peer Review Assignments at Scale

Meghan Perdue, Jessica Sandland

 

Designing Peer Review Assignments at Scale

What the RST?? Documenting the Open edX Platform

@Sarina Canelake @Feanil Patel

 

What the RST?? Documenting the Open edX Platform

Using Open edX Hooks for Custom Code

@Felipe Montoya

 

Using Open edX Hooks for Custom Code

 

Wednesday, 29 March (Keynotes)

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State of Open edX

@Edward Zarecor @Jenna Makowski

 

State of Open edX Address

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.

Keynote Presentation by Anant Agarwal at the Open edX Conference 2023

Wednesday, 29 March (Talks)

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Product Review is Here for You

@Ryan O'Connell @Jenna Makowski

 

Open edX Product Review is Here For You

Building Collaborative Classes - Borrowing from Open Source Practices

@Xavier Antoviaque

 

Building Collaborative Classes Borrowing From Open Source Practices

Integrating the Open edX platform with more than 5000 web applications for automated tasks

@Juan Camilo Montoya

 

Integrating Open edX With more than 5000 web Applications

A Practical Guide to Backend Caching

@Dave Ormsbee (Axim)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa7igsOf4is&pp=ygUdb3BlbiBlZHggMjAyMyBiYWNrZW5kIGNhY2hpbmc%3D

Product Roadmap Roundtable

Product Working Group (organizer for questions: @Sarina Canelake )

 

Open edX Product Roundtable

Running a MOOC on the Open edX Platform: Practices after Managing Over 100 Course Runs

Mary Ellen Wiltrout

 

https://youtu.be/qos3uUNg0bk

Reimagining Course Discovery

Syed Ansab Waqar Gillani, @Dawoud Sheraz , @Irfan Ahmad , Umar Ali Choudhry

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7MRkPomgY&pp=ygUqb3BlbiBlZHggMjAyMyBSZWltYWdpbmluZyBDb3Vyc2UgRGlzY292ZXJ5

An Opinionated Vision for Open edX Extensibility and Customization

@David Joy (Deactivated)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWCYZQoon4&pp=ygUZb3BlbiBlZHggMjAyMyBvcGluaW9uYXRlZA%3D%3D

Open edX Platform Support: Top 10 Issues Which Make Users Cry

Iana Loviagina

 

https://youtu.be/UySNnciSqRM

Successful Strategies for Producing & Teaching with Video

Rebecca Rumbel

 

https://youtu.be/_ASvBwrW0Wc

Product Development in the Open: From Visibility to Collaboration

@Jenna Makowski @Braden MacDonald @Dave Ormsbee (Axim)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ1sj_xMJcY&t=3s

Don’t Miss the Event Bus

@Robert Raposa

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Yjc5s63y8&pp=ygUXb3BlbiBlZHggMjAyMyBldmVudCBidXM%3D

Thursday, 30 March (Keynotes)

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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.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZz4SdKcNm8

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cen6el4teDg

Thursday, 30 March (Talks)

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How the Open edX platform compares against the most notable competitors

@Natalia Vynogradenko @Stefania Trabucchi

https://rb.gy/eap9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfEXgMt-gI

Working with SME’s: Strategies for Learning Design Success

@Ildi Morris

 

https://youtu.be/gg5Dy4Rr0tg

Crunching the k8s Numbers

@Jhony Avella

 

https://youtu.be/i_0dj20QYbo

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

 

https://youtu.be/ldfFsWr8pfM

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 (Deactivated) , @Feanil Patel

 

https://youtu.be/WRJAox_8YY0

2023 Open edX Product Strategy: Getting to a Core Product

@Jenna Makowski

 

https://youtu.be/eGguKbwOmDQ

The two way street: how on-campus and MOOC classes influence each other

Michelle Tomasik, Jennifer French

 

https://youtu.be/ODAqjyUP6r4

We’re Losing Them! How to engage Gen Z and A to a learning process

@Alexandra Nabokina , Kateryna Panasenko

 

https://youtu.be/U_WJ6a4Zmqo

Modular Domains: Where We Want the Open edX Frontend To Go, and When

@Adolfo Brandes

 

https://youtu.be/I3ut1XtSJ6o

 

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

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBj_IAPc6I&list=PL87xhvJSz2W5rViUF9-cf6xvYAZMlJAFV&index=12&pp=iAQB

Open edX project's key role in the educational transformation in Uruguay: opportunities for Latam

Carinna Balsamo, Paul Cevallos, Martín Anza

 

https://youtu.be/7Ns-G68Ova0

Promising Results from a Blended Inclusive Teaching Micro-Credential

Darcy Gordon

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5DxH36YrlE&list=PL87xhvJSz2W5rViUF9-cf6xvYAZMlJAFV&index=25&pp=iAQB

Why “About this course” might be a bad way to start

Alan Jameson, Robyn Belair

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtREocNhvjg&list=PL87xhvJSz2W5rViUF9-cf6xvYAZMlJAFV&index=23&pp=iAQB

Talk Track 2: Product Development & Usage

Examining Patterns of Content Use with Coursegraph

@Jennifer A. Akana (Deactivated)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZ37MGNSHA

Online assessment done right!

@Anastasiia Abyzova (Deactivated)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZ37MGNSHA

Fast Course Creation using an Excel Template

Nacho Despujol Zabala

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZ37MGNSHA

Using the Open edX Platform as a Country-Wide Higher-Ed LMS: Project Start-up

@Elizabeth Gordon

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZ37MGNSHA

Talk Track 3: Development (1)

🔥 Potsie v2 💥 Learning Analytics Charts That Rock! 🤘

@Julien Maupetit

https://openfun.github.io/2023-openedx-con-warren/1

https://youtu.be/Nw8haoMlDKo

How is an Open edX Release Created?

@Jorge Londoño

 

https://youtu.be/RUaqxhSIEY0

Build Fast but Don’t Break Things

@Kyle McCormick

 

https://youtu.be/Fb7lbt-EXPU

Multiple Tutor environments with TVM

@Maria Fernanda Magallanes Z

TVM demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZz421fN5kc

https://youtu.be/MX7uIW5wel8

Talk Track 4: Development (2)

Migrating a comprehensive theme from the legacy frontend to the MFE

@Piotr Surowiec

 

https://youtu.be/loVD2Ou_gFc

A paradigm for porting a Django View to an MFE Application

@Nathan Sprenkle

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfsK16ql_fw&list=PL87xhvJSz2W5rViUF9-cf6xvYAZMlJAFV&index=13&pp=iAQB

What is the most performant / sustainable open source LRS in 2023?

Wilfried Baradat

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I54r0lZ7Jt0&list=PL87xhvJSz2W5rViUF9-cf6xvYAZMlJAFV&index=22&pp=iAQB

Commerce Coordinator: Connecting Open edX with Commerce

@Phillip Shiu (Deactivated) @Glenn Martin

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2U5cQ-bjcI&list=PL87xhvJSz2W5rViUF9-cf6xvYAZMlJAFV&index=16&pp=iAQB