[Open-education] 5 days left to submit proposals for the 12th annual Open Education Conference

Mon Apr 13 15:00:55 UTC 2015

Friends,

I'd like to remind you that this Friday, April 17 is the deadline for
submitting proposals to present at OpenEd15. This year's conference is
being held in Vancouver, BC, November 18-20. Proposals may be
submitted online at:

http://openedconference.org/2015/submit-a-proposal/

For your convenience, I have included the list of conference themes
below. The conference website includes additional information about
keynote speakers and venue. I look forward to seeing many of you in
Vancouver.

Best,

David

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12th Annual Open Education Conference (OpenEd15) Themes

- models supporting the broad adoption and use of open educational
resources in formal education
- understanding the role of students in advocating for and supporting
OER adoption and use
- understanding the role of faculty in advocating for and supporting
OER adoption and use
- understanding the role of libraries in advocating for and supporting
OER adoption and use
- connecting open educational resources to competency based education,
prior learning assessment, and alternative pathways to credentials
based on OER
- measuring the impact of openness on the cost of education and
student success metrics
- promoting and evaluating institutional and governmental open
policies and strategies
- designing and using open pedagogies that leverage the 5R permissions of OER
- democratizing the credentialing process with open badges and other
alternative credentials
- exploring non-profit and for-profit sustainability models for OER
and openness in education
- supporting social learning with OER
- the role of openness in shaping the future of education
- improving the quality of research in open education
- innovating at the bleeding edge of openness
- strengthening the synergies between open education and parallel work
in the open data, open access, open science, and open source software
movements