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

[David Wiley]

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