Open edX 2018 Conference

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9:00am EDT

Learning interoperability standards support in Open edX

Developing high quality learning materials is hard. It becomes even harder if it is not possible to reuse and extend already existing ones. In this workshop we'll discuss a few major learning interoperability standards such as SCORM and LTI and take a look at their support levels in Open edX.

Speakers

Eugeny Kolpakov

Senior Open Source Developer, Opencraft

Tuesday May 29, 2018 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Rimouski Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

9:00am EDT

Running and Developing Open edX in Devstack - Docker Edition

Learn how to use the latest release of devstack (on Docker!) to run Open edX and perform common development tasks.

Speakers

Jeremy Bowman

Manager of Dev Tools, edX

I'm passionate about education, educational technology, and developer productivity. I especially welcome conversations involving testing, static code analysis, Docker, Django, and Python packaging.

Tuesday May 29, 2018 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

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Requirements for this workshop Docker on Windows not supported. If using Windows, please run Docker inside a Linux VM.

10:40am EDT

Maintainable Open edX Extensions

This workshop will show attendees how to add modular features to Open edX. There are a variety of ways to customize Open edX depending on the use case. We will go over a few different modern methods of extending or adding new features to Open edX.

Speakers

Tomasz Gargas

Senior Open Source Developer, OpenCraft

Josh McLaughlin

Senior Open Source Developer, OpenCraft

Tuesday May 29, 2018 10:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Saint-Hyacinthe Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Workshop, Development

10:40am EDT

Open edX from scratch

With how complex the Open edX configuration repository has become, it is easy to lose track of what is going on during a playbook run to install Open edX. In this workshop we outline how to set up Open edX from scratch, without using the Ansible playbooks, to get a better understanding of the requirements and mechanics of an Open edX installation. This knowledge helps designing custom Open edX hosting solutions.

If you want to participate in the hands-on exercises, you will need to download and install some software well before the workshop. Please do this before the conference, since you probably won't be able to download this via the local wifi at the conference venue.

Speakers

Sven Marnach

Senior Open Source Developer, Opencraft

Joseph Mulloy

DevOps Engineer, edX

Tuesday May 29, 2018 10:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:40am EDT

Should I be a Video?

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Video is resource intensive and is only one of the delivery methods for online course content. In this workshop, Clayton Hainsworth (Content Production Manager, edX) and Ben Piscopo (Learning Designer, edX) will provide you with diagnostic tools that you can use when making decisions about videos in a MOOC.

Speakers

Clayton Hainsworth

Content Production Manager, edX

Clayton Hainsworth is the Content Production Manager for edX. He manages a team of video producers and editors at edX. He has been involved in all aspects of academic video production and distance education for the past 17 years of his career. He attended Emerson College in Boston... Read More →

Ben Piscopo

Learning Designer, edX

Tuesday May 29, 2018 10:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Fondation des CPA, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal

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10:40am EDT

Studio Frontend - Develop on the edX Platform Using Modern Frontend Technology

Have you wanted to develop using modern front end tooling within the Open edX platform? Studio-frontend offers (for the most-part) a Python-free experience for developers to build pages outside of the edx-platform using modern FED technologies, including React, Redux, and ES6. The pages can then be installed as an NPM package. In this workshop, we'll show you how to do this in Studio. Bring your computer and follow along!

Speakers

Tyler Hallada

Software Engineer, edX

Dennis Jen

Software Development Manager, edX

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Tuesday May 29, 2018 10:40am - 12:10pm EDT
Rimouski Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

1:20pm EDT

Advanced uses of ORAs

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Interested in taking your Open Response Assessments to the next level? Join Udo Ouwerkerk (Instructional Designer, TU Delft) and Ben Piscopo (Learning Designer, edX) for a workshop that will prepare you to setup and administer ORAs for high-quality MOOCs.

Speakers

Udo Ouwerkerk

Technical Instructional Designer, Delft University of Technology

Udo Ouwerkerk is a technical instructional designer at TU Delft. He is working in the field of online learning since 2013.

Ben Piscopo

Learning Designer, edX

Tuesday May 29, 2018 1:20pm - 2:50pm EDT
Fondation des CPA, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal

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1:20pm EDT

Building Custom Analytics Tools using D4M

The Open edX platform provides very rich data that can be used for tracking student progress, improving content, and answering research questions. Many of these goals can be accomplished using the Open edX Insights tool, but occasionally more custom tools are required. This tutorial will show how to build custom analytics tools using the open source D4M library.

We are aiming to make this tutorial hands-on! The code, notebooks, and data used in this tutorial is available through github. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop and follow along! All dependencies and setup instructions are detailed on the github page and we ask that those following along download and install the dependencies ahead of time.

Click here for the code and material for this tutorial.

Speakers

Lauren Milechin

Research Staff, MIT

Julie Mullen

MIT

Tuesday May 29, 2018 1:20pm - 2:50pm EDT
Saint-Hyacinthe Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Workshop, Development

1:20pm EDT

Deployment For Small Institutions

We'll be taking a deep-dive on how to install, configure and support small single-server implementations for budget-constrained institutions. We'll focus on how to successfully deploy and support the Open edX platform in cases where there are only one or fewer dedicated IT resources assigned to the project and the operating budget for the platform is in the hundreds of dollars per month.

Speakers

Lawrence McDaniel

Full Stack Developer, lawrencemcdaniel.com

I am a freelance developer specializing in responsive web and mobile app development using Angular, Ionic, Wordpress and Amazon Web Services. I know about data science, machine learning, business analytics, forecasting systems and predictive analytics. And in a parallel universe I... Read More →

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Tuesday May 29, 2018 1:20pm - 2:50pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

1:20pm EDT

Embedded Video Questions

Do you want to make questions or links pop up during your learner's videos? Of course - we all do! I'll show you how. This workshop dives into the javascript functions that control the edX video player and how to access them. Examples (including pop-up questions) will be shown. This session is ideal for those who do not control their own version of edX - all methods shown work within the existing core platform without adding XBlocks or changing any of the platform code.

Speakers

Colin Fredericks

Sr. Project Lead, Harvard University

Sometimes, he wants to eat EdX developers while other times, he wants to use them to make gold, and still other times, he has even more bizarre uses for them. Though he often catches developers who wander by his home or whom he happens across in the forest, he does not know the location... Read More →

Tuesday May 29, 2018 1:20pm - 2:50pm EDT
Rimouski Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:00pm EDT

iOS & Android Application InstallFest

Here at Appsembler, my job is to launch and maintain iPhone and Android applications for many course websites. In this workshop, I'll walk you through building and releasing your first mobile application to your learners.

Speakers

J'aime Ohm

Software Engineer, Appsembler

Mobile apps for iOS and Android

Tuesday May 29, 2018 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Rimouski Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:00pm EDT

Open edX 101 - Basic course authoring

Aimed at beginners, this session covers the very basics of creating a course in Open edX, managing it and creating content using the most basic of components. You'll work with us to create something that loosely resembles part of a course, and hopefully have some fun along the way. We'll set you up with an Open edX site to use on the day, so just bring yourself and a laptop, and get ready to collaborate.

Speakers

Cody Carson

Customer Success Manager, Appsembler

As a part of the Customer Success team at Appsembler, I'm all about helping folks achieve their learning and training goals. I love learning and doing what I can to help others learn. I'm also a musician and if it's mainstream nerdy, I'm into it, so we should chat about those things... Read More →

Matthew Harrington

Customer Success Manager, Appsembler

I'm all about how we enable instructors to create fun, effective learning experiences. I'm a fan of trying to fit as much as possible about everything into my brain - if you have something interesting to tell me about, I want to learn about it! Outside of that, I'm an avid gamer... Read More →

Valerie Pierre

Project Manager, Appsembler

Talk to me about innovative learning solutions built on Open edX, new ideas for making learning experiences that will be impactful for learners! Let's share stories about the implementation journey of those solutions and measures of success.

Tuesday May 29, 2018 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Fondation des CPA, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal

3:00pm EDT

Running Open edX in production with Docker

We will share our experience of deploying and running Open edX in production with Docker on several "white label" instances.

We strongly invite you to participate in the hands-on exercises. We'll had soon instructions to setup a working environment on your laptop.

Speakers

Julien Maupetit

Senior developer, GIP FUN MOOC

Scientist, Developer, constantly willing to promote the Open-* movements.* = (Science|Source|Data|Education)

Samuel Paccoud

CTO, GIP FUN MOOC

Tuesday May 29, 2018 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

8:30am EDT

Registration and Breakfast

Wednesday May 30, 2018 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hall Des Diplômés, HEC Montreal - Decelles building

Registration, Registration

10:00am EDT

Reimagine Education

Anant Agarwal is the founder and CEO of edX, helping bring quality education to everyone, everywhere, and MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His keynote will address how we are working to reimagine education with edX and Open edX and what we hope to accomplish in the next 5 years

Speakers

Anant Agarwal

CEO and Founder, edX

Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His research focus is in parallel computer architectures and cloud software systems, and he is a founder of several successful startups, including Tilera, a company that produces scalable... Read More →

Wednesday May 30, 2018 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM

10:30am EDT

Keynote: MOOCs 2025

Fiona Hollands is the Associate Director and Senior Researcher at the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Over the past 20 years, she has conducted research and evaluation on how technology impacts teaching and learning. Recent studies focused on MOOCs, on automated detectors of affect and engagement, on how decisions about acquiring education technology are made in higher education, and on the costs and benefits to learners of earning alternative credentials such as MicroMasters. She is the author of “MOOCs: Expectations and Reality,” “MOOCs in Higher Education: Institutional Goals and Paths Forward,” and “EdTech Decision-making in Higher Education.”

In her keynote, Dr. Hollands will present her most recent research findings on MOOC's and online learning initiatives, placing it in the historical context of MOOC trajectory. She will look back at past predictions about MOOCs that turned out to be right - and wrong - with possible explanations and suggestions for future developments and predictions for where MOOCs will go in 2025.

Speakers

Fiona Hollands

Associate Director/Senior Researcher, Teachers College, Columbia

Wednesday May 30, 2018 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM

11:00am EDT

The State of Open edX

In this keynote, we'll talk about the highlights from the past year in Open edX and all of the exciting plans we have for the coming year. From software architecture and platform to community and developer ecosystem, this talk will give you a snapshot of where things stand.

Speakers

Berkay Baykal

Director of Open edX Business, edX

Berkay Baykal is the Director of Open edX. He has extensive experience in leading edge product and market strategy.

Mark Haseltine

CPO, edX

As Chief Technology Officer at edX, Mark leads our overall technology strategy and engineering efforts. Prior to joining edX, Mark was CTO, Afternic at GoDaddy where he led the development of their domain aftermarket products. He served as CTO at NameMedia which GoDaddy partially... Read More →

Adam Medros

President & COO, edx

Adam Medros is President and Chief Operating Officer at edX, overseeing the day-to-day management and oversight of edX’s operations, contributing to edX’s strategy and growth. Adam brings extensive operational expertise to power our innovation and growth at a global scale. He... Read More →

John Mark Walker

Open edX Community Lead, edX

John Mark Walker is the Open edX Community Lead for edX. He has been an open source community and ecosystems expert for 2 decades, starting with VA Linux Systems and SourceForge.net. He was the Gluster Community Leader at Red Hat, and was the product and community owner for ViPR Controller... Read More →

Wednesday May 30, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM

12:00pm EDT

Lunch

Wednesday May 30, 2018 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
HEC Montreal - Decelles building

Lunch, Lunch

1:25pm EDT

Building blocks for adaptivity: a modular architecture for adaptive learning implementation and research

We demonstrate a modular architecture for adaptive learning, with the goal of lowering the barriers for using and doing research on adaptive learning. As part of ALOSI (Adaptive Learning Open Source Initiative), we developed the Bridge for Adaptivity and the ALOSI adaptive engine, two open source applications supporting a common framework for experimentation that integrates several modular components. We will demonstrate the use of this system with the Microsoft MOOC on edX, "Essential Statistics for Data Analysis Using Excel", how we used various advanced features of Open EdX (LTI provider, course blocks API, import/export, content experiments) and discuss our vision for how this architecture can support compatibility with multiple learning management systems.

Speakers

Andrew Ang

Research Data Engineer, Harvard University

Wednesday May 30, 2018 1:25pm - 2:00pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

1:25pm EDT

CANCELLED: The Secret Life of Data in Education

In the last decades, the power of data and analytics has transformed instruction in education. Increasingly, large-scale data is available on student learning and interaction online. Much of this data represents student behavior, allowing researchers to model and track many elements of student learning that were not previously feasible at scale: engagement, affect, collaborative skill, and robust learning. In turn, these models can be used in prediction of long-term student outcomes, and to analyze the factors driving long-term success of students.

All of my research is using aggregated data from the Open edX Platform.

Speakers

Rizky Ariestiyansyah

IndonesiaX

Wednesday May 30, 2018 1:25pm - 2:00pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

1:25pm EDT

Content is King: Making Open edX beautiful

Lessons from the frontline. This talk explores the value of creating a visual identity for courseware and using graphic systems to aid learning. It will also cover the steps needed to deliver high quality video content while staying on-brand. Finally, we'll share tools and techniques such as templating that can be used to ensure consistency when working with a large production team.

Speakers

Krishan Meetoo

Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Proversity

I am a Founder of Proversity, born out of a passion to leverage the disruptive power of digital learning to transform individuals and organizations, globally.We partner with Higher Education, Government and Enterprise to create bespoke and engaging digital learning experiences.We... Read More →

Wednesday May 30, 2018 1:25pm - 2:00pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

1:25pm EDT

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Lessons Learned from Launching a Global Enterprise Learning Platform Based on Open edX

On September 21, 2017, Global Knowledge launched an enterprise-grade learning platform based on Open edX with over 100 courses. In this talk, we'll tell you about our experience — the good, the bad, and the ugly — covering organizational challenges, process considerations, and how we extended and integrated Open edX as part of a broader global business transformation and IT modernization initiative.

Speakers

Miguel Amigot II

CTO, ibleducation.com

Miguel Amigot is the Chief Technology Officer at ibleducation.com, a New York-based AI-driven learning platform powering NVIDIA, IBM, MIT, and The US Department of Defense among many others.

Michelle Lockard

Director of Product, Global Knowledge

Paul Tocatlian

Director of Engineering, Global Knowledge

Looking forward to meeting Open edX and it's developer/partner community as Global Knowledge forges ahead with its learning platform initiative.Global Knowledge is the world's leading learning services and professional development solutions provider. We deliver learning solutions... Read More →

Wednesday May 30, 2018 1:25pm - 2:00pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:10pm EDT

Extending Open edX to Support Integration with your Enterprise Systems

Each institution has its own unique business requirements; processes which are specific to that business' operations. For those unique processes, the user interactions may occur in the context of Open edX, but the processes belong to the wider enterprise platform systems that Open edX is a member of. This talk will explore the strategy we used to extend Open edX for integration into our enterprise systems, and what the resulting architecture became.

Speakers

Samuel Boyarsky

Global Knowledge

Jason Goodell

Senior Software Engineer, Global Knowledge

Wednesday May 30, 2018 2:10pm - 2:45pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:10pm EDT

Jupyter-based courses in Open edX: authoring and grading with notebooks

We present the technology and design parameters of courses created from a collection of Jupyter Notebooks. The solution involves two Open edX extensions: one for loading content from a Jupyter Notebook, and one for grading student work submitted as an uploaded notebook.

Speakers

Lorena A. Barba

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University

Miguel Amigot II

CTO, ibleducation.com

Miguel Amigot is the Chief Technology Officer at ibleducation.com, a New York-based AI-driven learning platform powering NVIDIA, IBM, MIT, and The US Department of Defense among many others.

Wednesday May 30, 2018 2:10pm - 2:45pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:10pm EDT

Partnering for success – Microsoft's journey with Open edX on Azure

Join the Microsoft Learning team as they share their journey with the partner eco-system using Open edX on Azure. They will discuss strategic projects, scale and opportunity to join the movement.

Speakers

Pankaj Dikshit

Microsoft

Saravanan Palaniyandi

Sr Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Jhansi Reddy

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

I am Engineering Program manager from Microsoft Worldwide Learning team providing world class learning experiences for our customers, employees and partners. I work on Learning as a Service program where we are enabling our Learning Partners to deploy Open edX on Azure and deliver... Read More →

Wednesday May 30, 2018 2:10pm - 2:45pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:10pm EDT

Teachers Training Micro-Learning Innovative Model: Opportunities and Challenges

For 70 years teachers in Israel used to acquire their professional development in synchronous interactions only, mostly face-to-face. This session will overview an innovative pilot of 31 teacher training MOOCs based on a model developed by Digital Promise and implemented in Israel on Campus-il, Israel's National Online Platform.

Speakers

Eran Raviv

CEO, Campus-il

As the director of Israel’s national online education platform base on Open edX technology, Eran is nowadays establishing Israel’s MOOCs ecosystem with academia, government ministries and civil society. The establishment of the platform is an initiative of Israel’s National... Read More →

Wednesday May 30, 2018 2:10pm - 2:45pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:45pm EDT

Coffee Break

Wednesday May 30, 2018 2:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Hall Des Diplômés, HEC Montreal - Decelles building

Break, Break

3:15pm EDT

BigBlueButton: Integrating real-time collaboration for increased engagement

This talk will demonstrate the speakers' work to integrate BigBlueButton, an open source web conferencing for online learning, into the Open edX platform to provide student tutoring, student collaboration, video assignment submission, and fully live online sessions. The talk will discuss integrating analytics from from the live sessions back into openedX and the road map ahead.

Speakers

Nate Aune

CEO & Founder, Appsembler

Wednesday May 30, 2018 3:15pm - 3:50pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:15pm EDT

Building an online M.S. with Open edX

This talk describes how Notre Dame created a for-credit graduate program on Open edX (with some attention to our NeXus social layer) to leverage the capabilities of the platform, enhance our autonomy and focus squarely on student learning.

Speakers

Elliott VISCONSI

Chief Academic Digital Officer, Notre Dame

Wednesday May 30, 2018 3:15pm - 3:50pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:15pm EDT

How we built a comprehensive Online University

From building an Open edX based digital learning ecosystem for Australia's biggest University to planning India's biggest digital learning portal - millionlights.org - and running our own TV channel, we demonstrate how Open edX powers these initiatives and more. This talk is a brief Introduction to Crystal Delta's Xenops offering and how we plan to change the way universities and organizations use Open edX to provide a complete out of the box solution.

Speakers

David Mackensie

Crystal Delta

Wednesday May 30, 2018 3:15pm - 3:50pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:15pm EDT

State of the Open edX Frontend

Big things are in the works for the Open edX UI. As always, we aim to provide a flexible, design-driven frontend that serves all users. Come learn about the projects we're undertaking to support this goal, including architectural standardization, reusable UI components, and explicitly versioned theming support to place more power in developers' hands. Find out what these initiatives mean for the Open edX community at large and learn how you can get involved.

Speakers

Ari Rizzitano

software engineer, edX

Wednesday May 30, 2018 3:15pm - 3:50pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

4:00pm EDT

Keynote: Georgia Tech's Online MOOC-based Master Program

In May 2013, Georgia Tech together with its partners, Udacity and AT&T, announced a new online master’s degree in computer science delivered through the platform popularized by massively open online courses (MOOCs). This new online MS CS— or OMSCS for short — costs less than $7,000 total, compared to a price tag of $40,000 for an MS CS at comparable public universities and upwards of $70,000 at private universities.

The first-of-its-kind program was launched in January 2014 and has sparked a worldwide conversation about higher education in the 21st century. President Barack Obama has praised OMS CS by name twice, and over 1,000 news stories mentioned the program. It’s been described as a potential "game changer" and "the first real step in the transformation of higher education in the US.” Harvard University researchers concluded that OMSCS is “the first rigorous evidence showing an online degree program can increase educational attainment” and predicted that OMSCS will single handedly raise the number of annual MS CS graduates in the United States by at least 7 percent.

To ensure program quality and rigor, Georgia Tech started in 2014 with small enrollment of 380; in January 2017 enrollment exceeded 6,360; about 7500 are expected to enroll in the Fall. So far 895 students have graduated from OMSCS; over 300 will graduated in May. The program has also paved the way for a number of similar, MOOC-based MS programs.

The talk will describe the OMSCS program, how it came about, its first four years, and what Georgia Tech has learned from the OMSCS experience. We will also discuss its potential effect on higher education.

Speakers

Zvi Galil

Dean, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing

Dr. Zvi Galil, Dean of the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He earned BS and MS degrees in Applied Mathematics from Tel Aviv University, both summa cum laude. He then obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. After... Read More →

Wednesday May 30, 2018 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
B2285 Jean-Lepage Amphitheater, Pavillon Jean Brillant, UdeM

5:00pm EDT

Evening Reception

Wednesday May 30, 2018 5:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Pavillon Jean-Coutu Agora, UdeM

Reception, Reception

9:00am EDT

Registration and Breakfast

Thursday May 31, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Hall Des Diplômés, HEC Montreal - Decelles building

Registration, Registration

10:00am EDT

APDC Digital Academy: the Tech Human Learning Platform

The APDC Digital Academy is a new learning method, addressing the challenges of rapid change in the structure of work and the professions. Its inspiration comes as a new wave of thinking regarding education, based on personalization, human interaction, and fast practical application. APDC uses digital technology as a tool for higher engagement with the students, and effectiveness of learning, leveraging the Open edX Platform for custom course development using Open edX Studio and engaging activities using gamification techniques.

Speakers

Carlos Gomes

CEO, BridgeLK Learning Technologies

Miguel Moreira

Project Director, IAM

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Thursday May 31, 2018 10:00am - 10:35am EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:00am EDT

Future Directions of Open edX Architecture

The current Open edX platform has evolved organically over the last 6 years, now collectively offering about 15 thousand courses to nearly 30 million learners worldwide. This is a commendable feat built upon the edX mission and the enduring support of the Open edX community. Looking toward the coming years and our ambitious goals, our path forward is met with challenges of time-to-value and an impeding intricate monolithic architecture. Therefore, edX is investing in a strategic initiative to rebalance our platform development with Intentional Architectural direction in addition to Emergent Design by autonomous teams. In this talk, we will share our vision of a platform architecture where SOLID design principles reign and our current thoughts on how to get there.

Speakers

Nimisha Asthagiri

Principal Architect, edX

Hey all! I look forward to meeting you and working together to develop an impactful shared vision for the future of Open edX architecture.

Thursday May 31, 2018 10:00am - 10:35am EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:00am EDT

Mastering Open edX development across four continents

Campus-il, the Israeli National MOOCs Platform, In collaboration with edX, Proversity, and OpenCraft, Campus-il has created an innovative development process to produce highly custom developments while minimizing the risk of code drift to enable more contributions to the Open edX community.

Our panel will discuss best practice & lessons learned from one of the most ambitious projects in the Open edX ecosystems.

Speakers

Anna Lifshits Agmon

CTO, Campus-il

Xavier Antoviaque

Core contributor, Founder, OpenCraft

Xavier Antoviaque is an Open edX core contributor and board member of the Open edX technical committee (TOC). He is also the founder of OpenCraft, which is the largest contributing organization to Open edX besides edX/2U, as a provider of development and hosting services on the Open... Read More →

Krishan Meetoo

Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Proversity

John Mark Walker

Open edX Community Lead, edX

Thursday May 31, 2018 10:00am - 10:35am EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:00am EDT

What can be learned from Natural Language Processing of MOOCs?

Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and a newly developed webcrawer, we analyzed 75 of edX's most popular MOOCs. The crawling tool extracted course's textual data from readings (html), video transcripts and assessments available in the Open edX learning management system (LMS). Secondly, through statistical analysis we discovered interesting patterns from the course materials. Finally, we perform text readability assessment based on word embeddings and compare the courses using clustering.

Speakers

Eric Christopher

Tokyo Tech

Jeffrey S. Cross

Tokyo Tech

Nopphon Keerativoranan

Student, Tokyo Tech

Naoaki Okazaki

Tokyo Tech

Zarina Rakhimberdina

student, Tokyo Tech

Thursday May 31, 2018 10:00am - 10:35am EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:45am EDT

From MOOC to SOOC an Unexpected Journey

We will explain a process that we have created to export edx courses to offline html to be able to use them in developing regions with no internet access. We will show the courses, the GitHub code and explain a case of use in the Sahara desert.

Speakers

Ignacio Despujol

Universitat Politècnica de València

Leonardo Salom

Universitat Politècnica de València

Carlos Turro

Universitat Politècnica de València

Thursday May 31, 2018 10:45am - 11:20am EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:45am EDT

Gamification in Learning

This talk focuses on Open edX enhancements for meeting the increasing demand for gamification in learning, including credentials, badging, leader boards, etc. We'll showcase a number of tools and developments around gamification and analyse the impact of these not only on the engagement and enjoyment of learning but for success factors for the platform and Open edX community.

Speakers

José Antonio González Rodriguez

Lead Software Engineer, Proversity

Thursday May 31, 2018 10:45am - 11:20am EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:45am EDT

Global Learning - Social Impact, Social Responsibility

How Open edX is supporting Global Learning strategies and understanding the scope and scale for success. We will showcase the power of Open edX platforms on Global Learning with 2 case studies (University of Oxford and PATA) demonstrating how the encouragement of peer network expansion, promotion of problem solving and global think tank approaches, can enhance accountability of social issues e.g. climate change, human rights, humanitarian need.

Speakers

Krishan Meetoo

Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Proversity

Thursday May 31, 2018 10:45am - 11:20am EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

10:45am EDT

Map and overview of all technologies used in Open edX

A fast walk through all components you will find in Open edX's code when you start extending it. The goal is to cover a bit of everything and to discover useful tools, interesting packages, what the different acronyms you will be encountering mean. You will understand how the individual Open edX pieces connect together. Lots of new stuff!

Speakers

Daniel Clemente Laboreo

Opencraft

Thursday May 31, 2018 10:45am - 11:20am EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

11:30am EDT

Corporate Blended Learning and Open edX

We'd like to present how we can manage blended learning project using our Triboo platform (Open edX). Our latest large-scale project as a business case will illustrate the topic. We will present the ILT XBlock we developed to manage a blended learning project using Open edX.

Speakers

Raphaël Droissart

Chief Technology Officer, Learning Tribes

Thursday May 31, 2018 11:30am - 12:05pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

11:30am EDT

Integrating open edX with your Website or CMS

In this talk we'll present some the advantages of integrating Open edX with an external CMS tool to manage the web contents that are not strictly courseware and get into the details of how to do it for a popular CMS system such as wordpress or drupal and how to use Open edX API and services such as course discovery.

Speakers

Juan Camilo Montoya

CEO, eduNEXT

Join me to talk about the endless possibilities we can achieve using Open edX.edunext provides world class Open edX professional services for all kind of online learning and MOOC initiatives.You can reach me at juan.montoya@edunext.co

Felipe Montoya

Co-founder and CTO, eduNEXT

I joined in this community in 2013, have attended all conferences since and have been a speaker in many of them. I Co founded eduNEXT one of the oldest service providers of professional Open edX services. I'm a beginner juggler, but every conference I become way better.

Thursday May 31, 2018 11:30am - 12:05pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

11:30am EDT

Keeping Maintenance Under Control - Contribute All The Changes!

Making changes to Open edX carries a price: every time you want to upgrade to a new version of Open edX, the changes have to be adapted to the new version. After doing this for a while, the changes accumulate, and every new stable release requires weeks of work, sometimes months. To avoid this, we suggest an approach that will benefit both you and the project: make sure that your changes are designed in a way that is useful to the larger community, and contribute them all to Open edX. If the community is also using your changes, then new developments will take them into account and you won't have to maintain them by yourself. In this way, new stable versions of Open edX will already include them.

Speakers

Xavier Antoviaque

Core contributor, Founder, OpenCraft

Thursday May 31, 2018 11:30am - 12:05pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

11:30am EDT

Openly Deploying Open edX at MIT Open Learning

At MIT Open Learning we have built a deployment strategy that lets us release changes to production with minimal downtime and a high degree of confidence. We have also created a test environment that supports multiple concurrent versions of Open edX with shared resources and minimal configuration changes. This talk will guide you through the stages of a release and the freely available code that we use to do it.

Speakers

Tobias Macey

Dev/Data Ops Manager, MIT Open Learning

Thursday May 31, 2018 11:30am - 12:05pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

12:15pm EDT

Lunch

Thursday May 31, 2018 12:15pm - 1:15pm EDT
HEC Montreal - Decelles building

Lunch, Lunch

1:25pm EDT

Lightning Talks: Analytics

Analytics: Collecting and using data on Open edX

edx–Figures, a lightweight analytics app for Open edX, John Baldwin
OpenedX Learners Global Analytics (OLGA), Sergiy Movchan
Show me the reports – How is Microsoft leveraging Power BI for Open edX Reporting?, Jhansi Reddy & Kunal Desai
Simplified Insights, Sergiy Cujba
Optimizing the emails for students. Analysis of the student's email address domain for a broad MOOC population, Ignacio Despujol & Carlos Turro

Speakers

John Baldwin

Senior Software Engineer, Appsembler

I'm part of the engineering team at Appsembler and the backend developer and maintainer for Figures

Sergiy Cujba

Kunal Desai

Microsoft Corp

Ignacio Despujol

Universitat Politècnica de València

Sergiy Movchan

CEO, Raccoon Gang

Hi! Thanks for stopping by :) We at Raccoon Gang are helping companies and institutions to adopt and improve their e-learning efforts. I'm very interested in sharing experience, hearing about new approaches of using Open edX to address real-world problems. P.S.: i don't always... Read More →

Jhansi Reddy

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Carlos Turro

Universitat Politècnica de València

Thursday May 31, 2018 1:25pm - 2:10pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Lightning Talks, LT1

1:25pm EDT

Lightning Talks: Authoring

Authoring: Best practices for creating courses

Authoring Courses outside of edX Studio. Why? How?, Christopher Schunke
CMS Backend for Online–Courses based on Open edX, Lars Walther
Scorm XBlock, Natalia Vynogradenko
Great Use Cases of Adaptive Learning in Open edX, Krishan Meetoo

Speakers

Krishan Meetoo

Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Proversity

Christopher Schunke

Manager of Multimedia Development, Global Knowledge

Natalia Vynogradenko

Raccoon Gang

Lars Walther

novareto GmbH

Thursday May 31, 2018 1:25pm - 2:10pm EDT
Rimouski Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Lightning Talks, LT2

1:25pm EDT

Lightning Talks: Learner Experience

Learner Experience: Finding courses, issuing credentials, social tools

Digital Credentials: Present and Future, Bill DeRusha
Documentorum: using the power of blockchain for academic accreditation, Luiz Aoqui
A CMS for Open edX based on Django CMS, Mehdi Benadda
Developing a course portal using course-discovery, David Truong & Pierre Mailhot
Slack for Open edX, José Antonio Gonzalez

Speakers

Luiz G Aoqui

Software Engineer, IBM

Mehdi Benadda

Freelance open source developer, Friends of Open edX

Bill DeRusha

Engineering Manager, edX

I am an engineering manager on the Devops team at edX. Interested in chatting about all things infrastructure.

Pierre Mailhot

MOOC System Admin, Université de Montréal / EDUlib

Masters in Computer Science.Worked as Unix sysadmin for a long time (1989-2001) in both educational and business settings.Worked as a security professional (CISSP / CEH) for a long time too (2001-2014) with emphasis on telecom and banking industries.Back in a sysadmin role since... Read More →

José Antonio González Rodriguez

Lead Software Engineer, Proversity

David Truong

Analyst, Friends of Open edX

Thursday May 31, 2018 1:25pm - 2:10pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Lightning Talks, LT4

1:25pm EDT

Lightning Talks: Real World

Real World: Institutional and domain-specific experience running Open edX

NAU Project, Rui Ribeiro
Are Massive Open Online Course useful in medical education? The clinical reasoning process MOOC as an example., Nathalie Caire Fon
What does it mean to be a Learner First organization?, Harry Klein
Extended Education to Reduce the Digital Divide, Bhaskar Gadeapally & Raju Goteti
Is Digital Learning forgetting a generation and missing an opportunity?, Carl Dawson

Speakers

Carl Dawson

Account Director, Pearson

edX advocate in the corporate and K12 spaces

Nathalie Caire Fon

Department head Family Medicine, Université de Montréal

Bhaskar Gadepally

Founder, Lokakalyan=3E Foundation

Harry Klein

VP of Customer Success, Appsembler

I head up Customer Success for Appsembler. Let's talk about innovative ideas about how people are using Open edX to accomplish their strategic goals. Attendees will gain insight from leading Open edX practitioners about how they achieved their strategic business goals through innovative... Read More →

Rui Ribeiro

Projeto NAU, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Thursday May 31, 2018 1:25pm - 2:10pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Lightning Talks, LT5

1:25pm EDT

Lightning Talks: Teaching Tools

Teaching Tools: XBlocks and tools for teaching

Serverless LTI Learning Tools on AWS Lambda, John Zornig
Fad versus Value Add, Krishan Meetoo
Rapid Response xBlock: an Open edX replacement for "clickers", Peter Pinch
Teaching Linux and C programming in MOOCs with a scalable in-browser and 100% client-side Linux IDE, Rémi Sharrock, Petra Bonfert-Taylor, & Michael Goudzwaard
Why should you care about mobile?, Albert St. Aubin Jr

Speakers

Petra Bonfert-Taylor

Michael Goudzwaard

Digital Learning Designer, Dartmouth College

Mike Goudzwaard is a Learning Designer at Dartmouth College where he works with faculty to empower student learning through community engagement, emerging instructional pedagogy, and educational technology. Mike is the Lead Designer and Developer for Dartmouth's digital learning initiatives... Read More →

Albert St. Aubin Jr

Bob Keeley

Proversity

Peter Pinch

MIT

Rémi Sharrock

Associate Professor, IMT, Telecom ParisTech, LTCI, Paris Saclay

John Zornig

Manager Course Design and Development, The University of Queensland

John Zornig is Director of UQx at University of Queensland (UQ). Located in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI), UQx represents UQ’s engagement in edX the non-profit MOOC platform and provides online learning expertise across the institution. John has over... Read More →

Thursday May 31, 2018 1:25pm - 2:10pm EDT
Saint-Hyacinthe Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Lightning Talks, LT6

1:25pm EDT

Lightning Talks: Technical

Technical: Development and operations

Reduce Open edX Mongo Disk Usage by 70%, Elton Carr & David Ormsbee
Building a future–proof and fully modular React LMS frontend, Matej Grozdanovic
Fonzie an Open API for Open edX, Julien Maupetit
Keeping up with Open edX releases while maintaining dinosaur browser support, Bryan Wilson
Microsoft LaaS boarding cases, Sergiy Movchan & Peter Koblyakov

Speakers

Elton Carr

Sr. Service Engineer, Microsoft

Matej Grozdanovic

Software Engineer, Appsembler

Eugeny Kolpakov

Senior Open Source Developer, Opencraft

Julien Maupetit

Senior developer, GIP FUN MOOC

Scientist, Developer, constantly willing to promote the Open-* movements.* = (Science|Source|Data|Education)

Sergiy Movchan

CEO, Raccoon Gang

David Ormsbee

Lead Architect, edX

Bryan Wilson

Senior Software Engineer, Appsembler

Thursday May 31, 2018 1:25pm - 2:10pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

Lightning Talks, LT3

2:20pm EDT

Collaborative-based Personalization On Campus and Online

This talk will be an overview of the roles adaptivity and personalization have played in computer tutoring systems and examples of how these concepts have been applied for both within course supports in edX and course selection at UC Berkeley.

The instructor's own domain model of subject matter informs the organization of a course's syllabus; however, significant differences can exist between the ideal domain model and the ideal pedagogical model for a given audience. In this talk, we'll show how data from previous offerings of a course can be used as a type of syllabus refinement, creating an adaptive course sequencing by way of personalized suggestions to each learner based on her path [1]. I will also cover how big data approaches are being adopted at UC Berkeley to surface personalized information to students about courses and progressing towards goal-based course sequence recommendation [2].

Speakers

Zachary Pardos

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Particularly interested in connecting with open edX operators and course teams interested in taking advantage of one of several adaptive course plug-ins such as (1) communicator dashboard for targeting emails to learners based on their engagement statistics (2) next page recommendation... Read More →

edx18 collaborative personalization pdf

Thursday May 31, 2018 2:20pm - 2:55pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:20pm EDT

Course Recommendation Systems with Open edX Data

Course recommendation systems that learn from course and learner attributes can be important tools for course discovery in a rapidly evolving course catalog. In this talk, we will present methodology and results from content-based and learner-based recommendation systems that we built and deployed for Open edX courses, using course and learner data. We will cover challenges faced in implementing such systems with the available Open edX data and hope to have a discussion on how such systems could be extended, or could inform data formats and course analytics strategies.

Speakers

Chinmay Nivargi

Program Manager, Applied Materials

Niharika Sharma

Applied Materials

Thursday May 31, 2018 2:20pm - 2:55pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:20pm EDT

Multi tenant Open edX

What are the challenges of running a multi-tenant Open edX deployment? What are the integration challenges? How do you guarantee privacy and security to each microsite when integrating it with external systems? How do you start to build microsite aware APIs? This talk will provide an overview of current efforts to make Open edX more multi-tenant.

Speakers

Maxi Fernandez

Appsembler

Thursday May 31, 2018 2:20pm - 2:55pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:20pm EDT

Navigating the Docker Devstack

This talk will explore the Docker devstack, where it comes ahead, where all it falls short. and what you can do when it does fall short. We'll talk about the unique challenges when it comes to working with multiple branches, and volumes, and will end with some ways to improve the devstack for your own needs.

Speakers

Kshitij Sobti

Open-Source Developer, OpenCraft

Thursday May 31, 2018 2:20pm - 2:55pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

2:55pm EDT

Coffee Break

Thursday May 31, 2018 2:55pm - 3:40pm EDT
Hall Des Diplômés, HEC Montreal - Decelles building

Break, Break

3:40pm EDT

Analytics from Scratch: Harnessing your data to learn from your learners

Learn to use your existing data to create metrics to better understand the learners on your site and their behavior. Want to identify rockstar courses, or how to suggest the next course learners should take? We'll show you how to make this happen, and provide code examples.

Speakers

Nick Ettlinger

edX

Thursday May 31, 2018 3:40pm - 4:15pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:40pm EDT

Designing Tools to Scaffold Collaborative Learning within MOOCs

UQx has developed a range of domain-specific and generic open source LTI tools to extend the social polling and collaborative tools available within the Open edX platform. In this presentation, the tools UQx has built to encourage decision making, enhance learner sense of community, improve critical thinking and reflection, and facilitate the co-creation of knowledge will be discussed.

Speakers

Aneesha Bakharia

The University of Queensland

John Zornig

Manager Course Design and Development, The University of Queensland

Thursday May 31, 2018 3:40pm - 4:15pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:40pm EDT

SSO in Open edX

Each Open edX platform has SSO integration. Raccoon Gang will show how it's made with specific use cases. These SSO use cases include SAML, LDAP, oAuth, Open edX as identity/service provider, Auth0, and KeyCloack.

Speakers

Sergiy Movchan

CEO, Raccoon Gang

Thursday May 31, 2018 3:40pm - 4:15pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

3:40pm EDT

Using neuroscience to evaluate the influence of media richness on the cognitive and emotional engagement in MOOCs

The objective of this study is to evaluate the extent to which media richness of videos in MOOCs is likely to influence the emotional and cognitive engagement of students. In a laboratory experiment, we compared two versions of a 12-minute MOOC segment (high and low media richness) in a between-subject experiment. Our results provide empirical evidence of the critical role of rich video formats in generating student engagement in distance learning.

Speakers

Pierre-Majorique Léger

HEC Montréal

Thursday May 31, 2018 3:40pm - 4:15pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

4:25pm EDT

An instructional designer's POV : a love letter to Open edX and how to make it better

This talk will be about what instructional designers love about Open edX, but also how we could improve it from a pedagogical perspective. Ideas from various sources will be discussed, including contributions from the audience.

Speakers

Gabriel D'Amours

Administration and too much food, OpenCraft

I work at OpenCraft, an open source software development company that contributes to the Open edX platform.

Thursday May 31, 2018 4:25pm - 5:00pm EDT
Sherbrooke Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

4:25pm EDT

Building a scalable, blockchain-enabled multi-site skills network on Open edX

In this session we will share our journey in building an Open edX powered skills network that spans over a million users and dozens of websites. With several hundred thousand users actively taking courses, we were faced with several challenges and came to an inflection point a couple of years ago. We needed a platform that could scale to millions of users. Because of our focus on practical learning, we needed to integrate and embed our hands-on lab environments within courses. Our clients and partners wanted our content but with ability to customize and whitelabel the platform and define access controls. And there were also requirements for enterprise and SSO integrations, issuing IBM Open Badges, etc. We will also talk about our plans to evolve the skills network with Blockchain based digital credentials and contributing back to Open edX.

Speakers

Ravdeep Ahuja

Program Director, Skills Network Content & Partnerships, IBM

Leon Katsnelson

Director & CTO, Strategic Partnerships and Data Science Ecosystem, IBM

Thursday May 31, 2018 4:25pm - 5:00pm EDT
L’Oréal Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

4:25pm EDT

Git Off My Lawn! or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fork

This is a deep dive into how Stanford's engineers have managed and maintained a forked codebase: what worked, what hasn't, and what we've learned over the years. While Open edX continues to add new integration points for extending the codebase, there are still a number of things we can only accomplish via a fork. We will attempt to answer such questions as "Why did we fork?", "What did we fork?", "What should or shouldn't be forked?", and "How can you make the process easier on yourself?"

Speakers

Steven Burch

OpenEdX Technical Lead, Stanford

Thursday May 31, 2018 4:25pm - 5:00pm EDT
Granby Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada

4:25pm EDT

MOOC-PILOT, MOOC Analytics: Students/Learners Automatic Follow-up Analytics

In the framework of a French research project named FLIRT, funded by ANR, a national Research Organization, we developed methods and applications to cover advanced follow-up of students during the progression of a MOOC. The goal is to give teachers and CEOs innovative, simple, accurate tools for student follow-up. The applications and tools monitor the pace of progression during the course's homeworks, exercises and help forum management.

Speakers

MICHEL Plantié

Assistant Professor, LGI2P/ IMT Mines Ales

Thursday May 31, 2018 4:25pm - 5:00pm EDT
Lévis Room, Decelles Building, HEC Montreal 5255 Avenue Decelles, Montréal, QC H3T 2B1, Canada