Open edX Conference 2022: Full Schedule

Collaborative Learning. Community Led.

Welcome to the Open edX 2022 Conference, hosted by Nova SBE and FCT | FCCN! This year’s theme is all about shaping the future of education together, and tackling challenges around expanding access to education globally, the future of work, up-skilling, re-skilling, and life-long learning.

1:00pm WEST

Learning on the job: 5 key lessons from creating next-generation workplace training products

Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of continuous up-skilling and the need to maximize the skills of their workforce. In this interactive session, we’ll cover the best practices of learning and instructional design for developing success-prone and results-oriented professional development programs, particularly in the context of the Open edX platform.

Speakers

Faqir Bilal

Co-Founder and Head of Product, Edly

Faqir Bilal leads the product function at Edly, an ed-tech company headquartered in McKinney, Texas. His professional background is in education technology, eLearning, and enterprise product management.

Asad Iqbal

Senior Learning Design Specialist, Edly

Asad lqbal is a senior e-learning consultant at Edly, an ed-tech company headquartered in McKinney, Texas. He is a seasoned learning professional with a background in creating highly engaging and quality learning solutions across K-12, Higher Ed, Non-profit and Corporate sectors... Read More →

Wednesday April 27, 2022 1:00pm - 1:45pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Breakout Session

2:00pm WEST

Navigating through the code ft. Open edX repos

This talk will highlight key aspects of navigating repositories for any open source organization, with a focus on the Open edX platform. We’ll discuss ways to better help visualize code, find common patterns, and use tools more effectively to reduce time spent on searches.

Speakers

Azan Bin Zahid

Software Engineer, Arbisoft

Dawoud Sheraz

Software Engineer, Arbisoft

I am a Software Engineer working at Arbisoft, Lahore, Pakistan for more than 3 years. Being an introvert, I usually tend to stay silent and observe the surroundings, whether alone or when socializing. Not that I shy away from conversations, I like Sound of Silence(if you get the reference... Read More →

Wednesday April 27, 2022 2:00pm - 2:45pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Breakout Session

3:45pm WEST

Improving Open edX Maintenance: Automation and Crowdsourcing

Given that the Open edX project consists of 100+ software repositories and hundreds of dependencies on externally maintained open source projects, the potential for bugs, security vulnerabilities, and upgrade issues is high. To reduce the level of effort and more efficiently stay on top of these items, we're taking steps to automate the process and distribute maintenance efforts across more people willing and able to contribute.

Speakers

Jeremy Bowman

Manager of Engineering, edX/2U

Jeremy manages the Architecture team at edX, where he strives to make Open edX easier to maintain and work with.

Wednesday April 27, 2022 3:45pm - 4:30pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Breakout Session

4:45pm WEST

Learning Core Platform

In this session we’ll take an in-depth look at The Learning Core Platform initiative. The goals of the initiative include efforts such as refactoring the Open edX LMS to enable more dynamic behavior in a scalable way, providing a more reliable path for extensions developers, advancing the decoupling of Studio and the LMS, and more. Learn what it’s all about, and what it means for the future of the Open edX platform.

Speakers

Dave Ormsbee

Software Architect, The Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL)

I was an early developer at edX and have been writing code for Open edX for over ten years, working primarily with the teaching and learning aspects of the platform. I am currently a Software Architect at tCRIL.

Wednesday April 27, 2022 4:45pm - 5:30pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Breakout Session

1:00pm WEST

Open edX mobile: Product direction & development

Come learn about the product vision and development details for the edX mobile apps from members of the edX mobile team. We'll cover how the apps will leverage mobile-specific features for learning (calendar, deep links, video download quality, mobile payments) as well as how they supplement the edX desktop platform. We’ll also discuss technical best practices learned during development, and what to expect for mobile in 2022 and beyond.

Speakers

Saeed Bashir

Principal Software Engineer, Arbisoft

Poornima Hanumara

edX Product Manager - Mobile, edX/2U

edX Product Manager on the Mobile Apps team.

Mian Khalid

edX Mobile Team Lead & Solution Architect, Arbisoft

A developer at heart with a knack for mobile development having 9+ yrs of experience in apps & games development.

Open edX mobile Product direction & development pdf

Thursday April 28, 2022 1:00pm - 1:45pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Breakout Session

2:00pm WEST

Lightning Talks: Virtual

Increasing access to outside LMS content using Common Cartridge to OLX conversion tool - Julia Song & Alison Langston, edX/2U
Addressing distraction: for those of us without a zen state of mind - Alison Hugo & Tim Krones, OpenCraft
Deploying the Open edX platform at scale with AWS - Norman Owens, AWS
Handling changes to live content as a developer - Dave Ormsbee, tCRIL

Speakers

Tim Krones

Project Manager, OpenCraft

I started working for OpenCraft in 2015 as a software developer. My interests have shifted quite a bit since then, and these days I mainly get to focus on things like project planning and process improvements in my work. I love being a part of an organization and a community that... Read More →

Alison Hugo

UX/UI Designer, OpenCraft

I have a small UX and UI company called Fixate. I’ve been working with OpenCraft since 2019 and during that time have learnt so much about the open source way of working, and MOOCs in particular. I love the community-driven aspect behind Open edX, and I’m really chuffed to have... Read More →

Alison Langston

Software Engineer II, edX/2U

After interning at edX in 2019, I joined full time in 2020 and work in the Content Theme as a software engineer.

Dave Ormsbee

Software Architect, The Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL)

Norman Owens

Senior Solution Architect, AWS

I have designed many large infrastructure migrations into the cloud. I have been a teacher through out my career and still manage a cloud security class once a year at the University of Minnesota. For a long time I have also been an election judge for my local community. These... Read More →

Julia Song

Senior Integration Specialist, edX/2U

I started at edX over 4 years ago and have worked a variety of roles: Project Coordinator, Partner Support Engineer, and now Senior Integration Specialist focusing on Master's Degrees.

Thursday April 28, 2022 2:00pm - 2:45pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Lightning Talk

3:45pm WEST

EDUlib's approach to pedagogical quality

At EDUlib, our workflow seeks to address key points that impact the overall quality of the learning experience for our freestanding courses to ensure student satisfaction. We’ll discuss our instructional design practices, quality control process, and the metrics we use to measure the success of our MOOCs.

Speakers

Natacha Brassard

Teacher Support Professional, Université de Montréal

Natacha Brassard is currently working as a technical assistant at the University Pedagogy Center of the University de Montreal. She is currently a master's student in educational technology. During her final internship, she built an evaluation grid to assess the success of a MOOC... Read More →

Vincent Laberge

Pedagogical Counselor, Université de Montréal

Vincent Laberge is pedagogical counselor at the University of Montreal and has been working with EDUlib since 2017.

Tetyana Tsomko

Instructional Designer, Université de Montréal

Tetyana has developed her expertise in higher education as a pedagogical advisor and instructional designer thanks to her degrees in education, teaching practice with groups of different ages, creation and evaluation of multiple programs and courses, coordination and management experience... Read More →

Thursday April 28, 2022 3:45pm - 4:30pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Breakout Session

4:45pm WEST

Next stop, event bus

Come learn how the Open edX platform and architecture will benefit from the addition of an event bus. Learn about the problems it will solve, as well as details regarding its active implementation. We’ll explore its roadmap and next stops, and how it will affect the future of Open edX deployments.

Speakers

Robert Raposa

Principal Engineer, edX/2U

Robert’s career has mainly focused on engineering roles across a variety of companies focused on education. Currently, he’s a principal engineer at 2U/edX. Robert has been with edX over 6 years supporting a number of architectural initiatives. Outside of work, he can be found... Read More →

Thursday April 28, 2022 4:45pm - 5:30pm WEST
Room D-114 (Floor -1)

Virtual, Breakout Session