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

• Community Input on the Simon DataLab
• Skills Mapping and Analytics
• Open Learning Analytics

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