E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

Today we launched the conference website for the Open Education Global Conference 2018 in Delft. The theme of the Open Education Global 2018 Conference is Transforming Education through Open Approaches.

This theme is a result of many discussion within the programme committee (Robert Schuwer is the chair of the committee) and I think it reflects very well the global development how education is transforming. The open approaches are not limited to education, it includes the broader perspective of openness. This aligns with the Year of Open strategy of bringing together all the different kinds of openness, suc as open science, open access, open data, open ict, open education, open research and more.

Call for Proposals

The website includes the Call for Proposals including the conference tracks:

• Open Connections 
  Connecting different worlds of Open, such as open access, open science, open source software; strengthening our reach and increasing impact through collaboration.

• Open Education Research
  Research on practices to mainstream openness in education; evidence of impact, studies of educational transformation using open modalities.  

• Innovation through opening traditional practices
  MOOCs as an accelerator for open & online education, opening teaching practices through open textbooks, openly licensed student work as OER.

• Policies & strategies for Open Education
  Setting priorities and conditions for mainstreaming Open Education, designing effective policies and strategies, connecting open education policies to larger policy movements such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Open Government Partnership.

• Institutionalizing Open Education
  Intellectual property arrangements at schools and universities; reward and recognition systems; institutional conventions; disciplinary norms; types of in-service training for Open Education; impact on hiring practices; challenges and barriers for mainstreaming openness; openness as a tool for community outreach, enhancing leadership in open education.

• Tools & Technologies for Open Education
  Supporting the development and use of tools for OER production, hosting, use and remix, authoring OER, conventions for tagging OER, hosting derivative works, citation conventions for derivative works, standards for remixable formats.

• Open Educational Practices/Open Pedagogy
  New approaches to teaching and learning based on openness, personalization of education, OER-enhanced teaching, facilitating informal learning with open resources, course redesign with a focus on open.

• Connecting Open Education to formal education
  Accelerating adoption of open education, recognition and rewards for open education adoption, alignment of open education values to institutional mission, accreditation of open education, recognition of learning through open means.

• Student perspectives
  Student-led initiatives to advance open education and research, impact of open for students, student perceptions of open education, students as open education leaders.

The deadline for submitting proposal is 23rd of October. I hope to see many great proposals from around the world. Check out the conference website for more information.