Theme

Latest suggestionApproved Theme:
"Opening Minds to Open Solutions"

with the (smaller) straplineSubheading/strapline:
"Working together to support the academic mission"

Open Minds Embracing Open Solutions

Open-minded Community Embracing Open Solutions

Embracing Open Solutions with an Open-minded Community

Tracks

Purpose: This field offers the category of the session to help attendees find sessions in their fields of interest.

Minimalist tracks for this year (to start):

• Using
• Developing
• Other (don't panic - this one is OK to choose - possibly even better than the rest!)

Using

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Tracks

• Developing
  
• Using
• Growing
• Beyond

Developing

Creating, Designing, Planning, Deploying, Enhancing. This track is for instructors, software developers, system engineers, and anyone that develops solutions, content, or the platforms that run, connect, or secure them.

Using

Teaching, Learning, Practicing, Researching, Running, Consuming. This track is for sharing case studies, effective practices, lessons learned,

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or strategies to help your colleagues using Apereo software and other applications or services around the globe.

Developing

What have you created, improved, or dreamed up recently?  Choose this track to share development projects, design approaches, usability and accessibility improvement plans and projects. Topics may also include best practices in design and development approaches that could be incorporated into software or practices in the future.

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Growing

Advocating, Leading, Expanding, Governing, Connecting. This track is for promoting solutions, bridging communities, and increasing adoption of academic software, solutions, and practices.

Beyond

There are many ways to share knowledge and inspire solutions, and they don't always fit into tidy labels.  Choose this This track is for all other presentation proposals that go beyond "using" or " developing."  You're encouraged to break the mold, think outside the box, and embrace unique ways of opening minds to "other" topics.

The following are the tracks we used last year.

1. Awareness and Advocacy
2. Design and Development
3. Deployment and Integration
4. Expanded Solutions
5. Getting Started
6. Leadership and Future Directions
7. Teaching, Learning, Portfolios, and Research
8. Technical Management

Awareness and Advocacy

Open Source Software, as a movement, dates back to February 2, 1998 (2/3/98), yet even today, almost 15 years later, awareness and adoption are often hindered by assumptions, misconceptions and a general lack of knowledge regarding open source development, support and implementation. Significant resistance can arise across campuses from non-technical stakeholders, unfamiliar with the open source ecosystem. Presentations discussing non-technical issues around awareness and adoption of open source (as opposed to specific OS applications) are welcome. These presentations might include: the introduction of open source options to your campus; the procurement process for identifying and evaluating options (commercial and open); approaches for addressing common and unique concerns; lessons learned in the implementation, etc.

Design and Development

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Deployment and Integration

Presentations for people who need to make applications work on campus: developers, content providers, team leaders, and evangelists. In particular, we would like to highlight work that integrates community source projects within enterprise infrastructure, and with each other.

Expanded Solutions

For most organizations open source software is one important component of a complex ecosystem of systems and tools supporting teaching, learning and research. Please share your experiences and successes integrating solutions to expand the benefit to your faculty and students.

Getting Started

Sessions for newcomers: from faculty to developers, administrators to trainers, students to tech support. Learn the steps to evaluate, plan, deploy, promote, and support software on your campus.

Leadership and Future Directions

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Teaching, Learning, Portfolios, and Research

Technology to improve the quality of teaching, learning, and research.  Please share case studies of effective teaching, research and collaboration practices as well as new approaches to technology-enabled teaching and research.

Technical Management

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and growing.

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Session Types

Purpose: This field is intended to explain the type of a session.

Available to be selected in the call for presentations form: 

• Track Session

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• Showcase Night/Reception
• Birds of a Feather Discussion
• Pre-conference workshop (half day)
• Pre-conference workshop (full day)

Behind the scenes:

• Pre-conference workshop (half day, morning)
• Pre-conference workshop (half day, afternoon)
• Business meeting
• Keynote/General Session

Track Sessions

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Track Session

The conference session presentations will run for 45 minutes with an open format. Presentations can be information sessions, panel discussions, or other speaking events. For information sessions, we recommend 30 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes reserved for audience questions and answers. We DO NOT require presentations to center on Apereo products or projects. When developing presentations, please consider the issues, opportunities, and innovations that are most central to best practices and/or success in technology-enabled teaching, learning, and research.

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Please suggest a topic for informal collaboration and discussion. There is no need to prepare a presentation for these sessions. This is simply an opportunity for like-minded folk to meet and share.

Tech Demonstrations

Showcase Night/Reception

One evening during the conference community members will gather to eat, drink and share innovations. Please consider providing a demo of your work and discussing it with community members in an informal setting. The conference will provide a table and access to electricity . We unfortunately cannot provide a screen and projector for each table. If you would like us to assist you in coordinating this with the hotel for a fee, please note that on your submissionand wifi. If you need additional equipment, please indicate so in the "Abstract for Review."

Pre-conference Workshop

Please propose an in-depth, hands-on workshop to be offered the day before the main conference begins. Workshops can either be half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours). They should be highly interactive, allowing attendees to explore, review, practice, or produce outcomes based on the topic and goals of the event. Please indicate whether the workshop will be offered for free or will require a fee. The typical fee is $150 for half-day workshops or $300 for full-day.

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Level

Purpose:This field identifies the expected or recommended knowledge level of the attendee for the session.

1. All
2. Advanced
3. Intermediate
4. Beginner

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Type

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Purpose: In this past, this field identified the audience type. This year, we propose to offer both audience types as well as product types.

Last Year's Options:

1. Administrator/Executive
2. Advocate
3. Development
4. Faculty
5. Identity Management
6. Information Security
7. Instructional Design
8. Library
9. Media/Multimedia
10. Mobile
11. Newcomer
12. Other/All
13. Student
14. Support

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- Audience, Project, and Interest

1. Audience: Administrator/Executive
2. Audience: Advocate
3. Audience: Developer
4. Audience: Faculty
5. Audience: Instructional Designer
6. Audience: Librarian
7. Audience: Newcomer
8. Audience: Other (is this needed? -AZ)
9. Audience: Student
10. Audience: Technical/Functional Manager
11. Audience: User Support
    
12. Project: 2/3/98
13. Project: bedeworkBedework
14. Project: CAS
15. Project: Incubator
16. Project: Other
17. Project: Portlets
18. Project: Sakai CLE
19. Project: Sakai OAE
20. Project: Sakai OSP
21. Project: Student Success Plan
22. Project: uMobile
23. Project: uPortal
24. Project: OpenRegistry
25. Interest: Accessibility
26. Interest: Awareness and Advocacy
27. Interest: Blended/Hybrid Learning
28. Interest: Online/Self-Paced Learning
29. Interest: CIFER
30. Interest: Documentation
31. Interest: Getting Started
32. Interest: Identity and Access Management
33. Interest: Integration
34. Interest: Internationalization (i18n)
35. Interest: Learning Analytics
36. Interest: Media/Multimedia
37. Interest: Mobility
38. Interest: Security
39. Interest: User Experience
40. Interest: Self-Paced LearningCIFER
41. Interest: Shibboleth
42. Interest: Central Person Registry
43. Interest: Duraspace
44. Interest: Internet2
45. Interest: Kuali