WPCampus 2023 is looking for stories, case studies, how-tos, hypotheticals, demos, panels, and more to bring our community together for learning, sharing, and support. If you can’t join us in person, we’d love to have you share with our community remotely.
Knowledge-sharing is one of the keystones of higher education, and the WPCampus conference is a great opportunity to share what you’ve learned with your peers.
As in past years, we’re looking for a variety of topics on anything that might bring value to our community. WordPress, higher education, and accessibility are key themes, but we want people to share their experiences in various web-related areas: design, development, strategy, management, usability, governance, etc. Anything you’ve found valuable in contributing to higher education communities and/or the web.
Looking for online and in-person presentations
We have opened the schedule for remote presentations. If you can’t join us in person, we’d love to have you share with our community remotely.
If you present remotely, we will most likely ask you to pre-record your session to minimize tech issues. However, if you do pre-record, we will ask you to join us live after the recording plays for live Q&A and other attendee interaction.
Submit your proposal
The call for proposals has closed. All proposals will receive a response by the end of April.
Have an idea for a session topic? Need ideas?
We’ve created a collaborative Google document where you can access existing session ideas and even add your own!
We created this document to help our community brainstorm topics they want to learn about at the event and to help encourage and inspire folks to find topics they can present on. If you want to hear about a topic at WPCampus 2023, please add it to the list.
Access the session ideas document
Looking for more inspiration? Visit the WPCampus Learning Library or the schedules from past conferences
Why present at WPCampus?
Knowledge-sharing is one of the keystones of higher education, and the WPCampus conference is a great opportunity to share what you’ve learned with your peers.
If you use WordPress in higher ed, we’d love for you to share your work (and brains) with our community. Our call for presenters is not limited to those who work in higher ed; you do not have to be in higher education to bring value to our community.
If you’re having trouble finding inspiration or fleshing out ideas, start by checking out our Speaker Training videos. These videos may help get your vision into a submittable format. And feel free to share your ideas with us for feedback!
First-time presenter? Our community and event is a great space for first-time presenters.
Presenter Benefits
Accepted presenters will receive free General Admission and hordes of gratefulness and admiration for your investment in higher education. Also, swag.
Session Formats
Over the years, we’ve continued to experiment with our program and aim to provide a variety of formats:
- General lecture sessions
- 45-minute lectures on various topics with 1-2 presenters.
- Panel discussions
- 45-minute discussion on a specific topic with a facilitator and a panel of experts.
- Group discussions
- 45-minute group discussions on a specific topic.
- The discussion is had among all in attendance and led by a facilitator.
- The facilitator is selected by the planning committee but the community selects the topics.
- Hands-on workshops
- A few 2-4 hour hands-on workshop time slots are available.
- Workshops will be held a day early.
- Lightning talks
- A 10-15 minute presentation for a quick overview of a specific topic.
- Our lightning talks are viewed by all attendees. We really enjoy this time together, sharing insights on various topics.
Session Topics
Session tracks will be generated according to proposals, so feel free to submit any and all session ideas and stories you have to share involving WordPress and education.
The intended audiences will include faculty, students, developers, site designers, DevOps/sysadmins, content developers, instructional designers, marketing specialists, admissions personnel, and institutional leaders.
Looking for more inspiration? Visit the WPCampus Learning Library
Here are some possible topics (and we’re sure you can imagine more):
Here are some possible topics (and we’re sure you can imagine more):
Why WordPress?
- Why choose WordPress over commercial or other open-source CMSs?
- How do you pitch WordPress to management?
- Overcoming biases: it’s just for blogging, it’s insecure, etc.
- Case studies displaying why WordPress was the right fit for your university
- How to deal with the bureaucracy of using open-source software in higher education
Being Human
- Staying happy and healthy
- Communication and community involvement
- Managing open-source contributions within/alongside in-house projects
- Dealing with conflict in open-source spaces
- Hiring WordPress developers when you aren’t one
- Mental health, imposter syndrome, burnout
Content Strategy
- Higher ed content strategy and WordPress
- Institutional messaging
- WordPress and the ecosystem of other enterprise systems
- Promoting faculty, research, or community engagement
- Accessibility
- Politics/support
- Testing
- Getting projects launched
- Planning and change management
- Getting buy-in
- Why WordPress?
Operations
- Multisite
- Infrastructure
- Security
- Server-based security
- Securing your sites
- Code auditing
- Login integration with enterprise systems or LMS
- Who does what?
Instruction
- Technology in education
- Connected courses
- Domain of One’s Own Projects
- Open learning
- Professional development
- Teaching with WordPress
- Student and/or class blogs and portfolios
- Textbook and course materials replacement/delivery
- MOOCs and syndicated courses
- Faculty blogs and portfolios
- ePortfolios
Development
- Developing WordPress themes and plugins for higher education
- Evaluating free and commercial themes and plugins for education use
- Applications and APIs
- Accessibility and usability
- Public distribution and privacy/security concerns
Code of Conduct
WPCampus seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment. All participants should be able to engage in productive dialogue. They should share and learn with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We require all participants to adhere to our Code of Conduct. This applies to all community interactions and events.
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