At this year’s Open Education Conference, held  in Washington, DC. on November 19-21, OLI Director Norman Bier will speak at three sessions:

 

Keynote addresses and concurrent sessions at OpenEd14 will address the following themes:

  • exploiting the synergies between open education and parallel work in the open data, open access, open science, and open source software movements
  • models that support the broad adoption and use of open educational resources in primary, secondary, post-secondary, and informal education
  • 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
  • libraries and OER
  • promoting and evaluating institutional and governmental open policies and strategies
  • designing and using new pedagogies that leverage the reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute potential of OER
  • democratizing the credentialing process with open badges
  • social learning with OER
  • improving the quality of research in open education
  • innovation at the bleeding edge of openness