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
