Open edX 2018 Presentations

Note: follow the patterns here: 2015 Open edX Presentations

Talks and Keynotes

Wednesday

Video

SES	Topic	Presenters	Slides and other materials	YouTube
10:00–10:30am B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM	Reimagine Education	Anant Agarwal	Slides
10:30–11:00am B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM	Keynote: MOOCs 2025	Dr. Fiona Hollands	Slides
11:00–12:00pm B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM	The State of Open edX	Berkay Baykal (Deactivated) Mark Haseltine (Deactivated) Adam Medros (Deactivated) Marco Morales (Deactivated) Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated) John Mark Walker (Deactivated)	Slides (pdf) Slides (PNG)
1:25–2:00pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Building blocks for adaptivity: a modular architecture for adaptive learning implementation and research	Andrew Ang	Slides	Video
1:25–2:00pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Content is King: Making Open edX beautiful	Krishan Meetoo	Slides	Video
1:25–2:00pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Lessons Learned from Launching a Global Enterprise Learning Platform Based on Open edX	Miguel Amigot II Michelle Lockard Paul Tocatlian	Slides	Video
2:10–2:45pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Extending Open edX to Support Integration with your Enterprise Systems	Samuel Boyarsky Jason Goodell [DT]	Slides	Video
2:10–2:45pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Jupyter-based courses in Open edX: authoring and grading with notebooks	Lorena A. Barba Miguel Amigot II	Slides	Video
2:10–2:45pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Partnering for success – Microsoft's journey with Open edX on Azure	Pankaj Dikshit Saravanan Palaniyandi Jhansi Reddy	Slides	Video
2:10–2:45pm L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Teachers Training Micro-Learning Innovative Model: Opportunities and Challenges	Eran Raviv	Slides	Video
3:15–3:50pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	BigBlueButton: Integrating real-time collaboration for increased engagement	Nate Aune Fred Dixon	Slides	Video
3:15–3:50pm L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Building an online M.S. with Open edX	Elliott Visconsi	Slides	Video
3:15–3:50pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	How we built a comprehensive Online University	David Mackensie		Video
3:15–3:50pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	State of the Open edX Frontend	Ari Rizzitano (Deactivated)	Slides	Video
4:00–5:00pm B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM	Keynote: Georgia Tech's Online MOOC-based Master Program	Zvi Galil	Slides

Thursday

Video

SES	Topic	Presenters	Slides and other materials	YouTube
10:00–10:35am Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	APDC Digital Academy: the Tech Human Learning Platform	Carlos Gomes Miguel Moreira	Slides	Video
10:00–10:35am Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Future Directions of Open edX Architecture	Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)	Slides	Video
10:00–10:35am Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Mastering Open edX development across four continents	Anna Lifshits Agmon Xavier Antoviaque Krishan Meetoo John Mark Walker (Deactivated)		Video
10:00–10:35am L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	What can be learned from Natural Language Processing of MOOCs?	Eric Christopher Jeffrey Cross Nopphon Keerativoranan Naoaki Okazaki Zarina Rakhimberdina	Slides	Video
10:45–11:20am Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	From MOOC to SOOC an Unexpected Journey	Ignacio Despujol Leonardo Salom Carlos Turro	Slides	Video
10:45–11:20am Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Gamification in Learning	Philippa Hardman	Slides	Video
10:45–11:20am L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Global Learning - Social Impact, Social Responsibility	Krishan Meetoo	Slides	Video
10:45–11:20am Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Map and overview of all technologies used in Open edX	Daniel Clemente Laboreo	Slides	Video
11:30am–12:05pm L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Corporate Blended Learning and Open edX	Raphaël Droissart	Slides	Video
11:30am–12:05pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Integrating open edX with your Website or CMS	Juan Camilo Montoya Felipe Montoya	Slides
11:30am–12:05pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Keeping Maintenance Under Control - Contribute All The Changes!	Xavier Antoviaque	Slides	Video
11:30am–12:05pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Openly Deploying Open edX at MIT Open Learning	Tobias Macey	Slides	Video
1:25–2:10pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Lightning Talks: Analytics	John Baldwin Sergiy Cujba Kunal Desai Ignacio Despujol, Carlos Turro Sergiy Movchan Jhansi Reddy	Slides: Optimizing the emails for students. Analysis of the student's email address domain for a broad MOOC population (Ignacio Despujol, Carlos Turro) Slides: edx–Figures, a lightweight analytics app for Open edX (John Baldwin) Slides: Show me the reports – How is Microsoft leveraging Power BI for Open edX Reporting? (Jhansi Reddy)	Video
1:25–2:10pm Rimouski Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Lightning Talks: Authoring	Krishan Meetoo Christopher Schunke Natalia Vynogradenko Lars Walther	Slides: Great Use Cases of Adaptive Learning in Open edX (Krishan Meetoo) Slides: Authoring courses outside of edX Studio. Why? How? (Christopher Schunke)
1:25–2:10pm L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Lightning Talks: Learner Experience	Luiz Aoqui Mehdi Benadda Bill DeRusha (Deactivated) David Truong, Pierre Mailhot José Antonio Gonzalez	Slides: Documentorum: using the power of blockchain for academic accreditation (Luiz Aoqui) Slides: Richie, a CMS for Open edX (Mehdi Benadda) Slides: Slack for Open edX? Using "Rocket Chat" as an alternative to discussion groups (José Antonio Gonzalez) Slides: Digital Credentials: Present and Future (Bill DeRusha) Slides: Developping a portal using Course Discovery (David Truong)	Video
1:25–2:10pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Lightning Talks: Real World	Carl Dawson Nathalie Caire Fon Bhaskar Gadepally, Raju Goteti Harry Klein Rui Ribeiro	Slides: What does it mean to be a Learner First organization? (Harry Klein) Slides: Is digital learning forgetting a generation? Skills builders (Carl Dawson) Slides: Extended Education to Reduce the Digital Divide (Bhaskar Gadepally, Raju Goteti) Slides: Are Massive Open Online Course useful in medical education? The clinical reasoning process MOOC as an example (Nathalie Caire Fon)	Video
1:25–2:10pm Saint-Hyacinthe Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Lightning Talks: Teaching Tools	Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Rémi Sharrock, Michael Goudzwaard, Ella Hamonic Albert (AJ) St. Aubin (Deactivated) Bob Keeley Peter Pinch John Zornig	Slides: Fad versus Value Add (Bob Keeley) Slides: Rapid Response xBlock (Peter Pinch) Slides: Serverless LTI Learning Tools on AWS Lambda (John Zorning)
1:25–2:10pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Lightning Talks: Technical	Elton Carr, Dave Ormsbee Matej Grozdanovic Julien Maupetit Bryan Wilson Sergiy Movchan, Eugeny Kolpakov	Slides: Fonzie, an Open API for Open edX (Julien Maupetit) Slides: Reduce Open edX Mongo Disk Usage by 70% (Elton Carr, David Ormsbee) Slides: CourseGraph PSA (David Ormsbee) Slides: One Theme for Multiple Open edX services using Diazo (Bryan Wilson) Slides: Building a future–proof and fully modular React LMS frontend (Matej Grozdanovic)	Video
2:20–2:55pm L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Collaborative-based Personalization On Campus and Online	Zachary Pardos	Slides	Video
2:20–2:55pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Course Recommendation Systems with Open edX Data	Chinmay Nivargi (Deactivated) Niharika Sharma	Slides	Video
2:20–2:55pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Challenges of multi-tenant Open edX	Maxi Fernandez	Slides	Video
2:20–2:55pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Navigating the Docker Devstack	Kshitij Sobti	Slides	Video
3:40–4:15pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Analytics from Scratch: Harnessing your data to learn from your learners	Nick Ettlinger (Deactivated)	Slides	Video
3:40–4:15pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Designing Tools to Scaffold Collaborative Learning within MOOCs	Aneesha Bakharia John Zornig	Slides	Video
3:40–4:15pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	SSO in Open edX	Sergiy Movchan		Video
3:40–4:15pm L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Using neuroscience to evaluate the influence of media richness on the cognitive and emotional engagement in MOOCs	Pierre-Majorique Léger	Slides	Video
4:25–5:00pm Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	An instructional designer's POV : a love letter to Open edX and how to make it better	Gabriel D'Amours Braden MacDonald	Slides	Video
4:25–5:00pm L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Building a scalable, blockchain-enabled multi-site skills network on Open edX	IBM	Slides	Video
4:25–5:00pm Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	Git Off My Lawn! or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fork	Steven Burch	Slides	Video
4:25–5:00pm Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal	MOOC-PILOT, MOOC Analytics: Students/Learners Automatic Follow-up Analytics	Michel Plantié	Slides	Video

Tutorials, workshops, etc.

Topic	Presenters	Slides and other materials
Running Open edX in production with Docker	Julien Maupetit Samuel Paccoud	Slides
Getting Started with Open edX Development	Nate Aune Nimisha Asthagiri	Slides
iOS and Android Application InstallFest	J'aime Ohm	Slides
Open edX 101 - Basic Course Authoring	Matthew Harrington Cody Carson Valerie Pierre	Slides
Running and Developing Open edX in Devstack - Docker Edition	Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)	Slides