Theme

Latest suggestion:

"Opening Minds to Open Solutions"

with the (smaller) 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):

There are many ways to share knowledge and inspire solutions, and they don't always fit into tidy labels.  Choose this track 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

Sharing is critical among communities creating open software. Please 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 in the future.

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

Open software is an element within your broader strategy and goals. How are institutions using open software to achieve strategic goals? What changes and opportunities on the horizon should be influencing the direction of the community? What other trends, advances and challenges should become part of our community planning and dialogue?

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

Deploying, supporting and managing open software is critical to its success. Please share your best practices and approaches in creating and maintaining open software successfully for your users.

Session Types

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

Available to be selected in the call for presentations form:

1. Track Session
2. Tech Demo
3. Birds of a Feather
4. Pre-conference workshop (half day)
5. 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

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.

Birds of a Feather Discussion

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

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 submission.

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

Type

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

This Year's Options:

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: bedework
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. Interest: Accessibility
25. Interest: Awareness and Advocacy
26. Interest: Getting Started
27. Interest: Identity
28. Interest: Integration
29. Interest: Internationalization (i18n)
30. Interest: Learning Analytics
31. Interest: Media/Multimedia
32. Interest: Mobility
33. Interest: Security
34. Interest: Self-Paced Learning