2023 Digital Student Experience Conference (DSEC): October 3-5, 2023

The Johns Hopkins Digital Student Experience Conference (DSEC) brings together functional and technical staff from across the university to explore and discuss the evolving landscape of digital learning and its impact on student experiences.

The DSEC Conference objectives include:

Exploring emerging trends
Sharing best practices
Addressing challenges and solutions
Enhancing pedagogical approaches
Fostering collaboration and networking

This year, participants may attend October 3 in person and October 4-5 virtually, or attend all 3 days virtually. To register, visit the Conference Zoom Event Page (sign into your JH Zoom account in order to register). Below is an abbreviated agenda; view the complete agenda on the Event Page:

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

9:00 – 9:40 AM
Keynote: Selecting and implementing enterprise software: Foundational and psychological considerations – Rich Mendola

10:00 – 10:40 AM
SSEI Update, 2023 Edition – Jim Aumiller

11:00 – 11:40 AM
Digital Experience Platform Update, 2023 – Mark Chisamore

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

9:00 – 9:40 AM
Stellic: Enhancing the Student Journey

10:00 – 10:40 AM
Let’s Go Viral: Utilizing Social Media as an Extension of Academic Advising – Kayla Cullum Michael

11:00 – 11:50 AM
Interactive Design: Rapid Prototyping a Student App Experience – Emily Ades

1:00 – 1:45 PM
Technical Lightning Talks – Lonnie Wall

2:00 – 2:40 PM
No Matter the Terminology, Let’s Talk about It: Hybrid, Virtual-Live, Synchronous In-person and Online Learning – Celine Greene

3:00 – 3:40 PM
Navigating Digital Inclusion: Reviewing 3 Accessibility Checking Tools – Kathy Cahill

4:00 – 4:40 PM
Check It Off: Developing Review Checklists for OnBase Workflows – Jennifer Martin

4:00 – 4:40 PM
Scaling your Data Extraction and Ingestion with Azure – Stan Bice

Thursday, October 5, 2023

9:00 – 9:40 AM
Data Security – Darren Lacey

10:00 – 10:40 AM
Diving Deep into Course Data – Lauren Dana

11:00 – 11:40 AM
The FA Times, They are A-changin’: An Introduction to FAFSA Simplification – Christopher Rodriguez

1:00 – 1:40 PM
Behind the Scenes with DXP – Lonnie Wall

1:00 to 1:40 PM
Filling Info Gaps and Scaling a Service: The Johns Hopkins Universal WordPress Theme – Jasmine McNeil

2:00 – 2:40 PM
Supercharge Your Forms and Data Collection with Qualtrics – Hilda Rizzo-Busack

3:00 to 3:40 PM
Where’s Waldo? – Amy Jones