Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning
Fourth Annual Open Education Conference
September 26-28, 2007

Final Program

OpenEd 2007 is pleased to announce our Final program.

OpenCourseWare Consortium Meeting

Interested in OpenCourseWare? Want to start an OpenCourseWare at your institution? Join us September 24-25 preceding OpenEd 2007 for two days of stimulating discussion and sharing of best practices. For registration and other information about the OCW Consortium meeting, please visit the OCW Consortium Conferences web site.

Keynotes

OpenEd 2007 is pleased to announce our keynote speakers.

Fred Mednick	Manohar Bhattarai	Ramita Shrestha	Brian Lamb

Conference Themes

For the first several years our field focused on content production and content licensing. Today, there are thousands of full university courses and tens of thousands of learning modules available as open educational resources under open licenses like those offered by Creative Commons. However, our work isn't finished; we're simply nearing a checkpoint.

If our open education efforts aren't supporting learning, we're failing as a field. Period. And as we are beginning to understand how to produce and license content, we have to turn some of our attention to how this content is used by learners and teachers. How do they change, adapt, and localize it for their specific needs or the needs of their specific students? Do open educational resources support learning in ways different from non-open resources? In what concrete ways do open educational resources support learning?

Open Education 2007 will focus specifically on localizing open educational resources and learning from open educational resources. Please join us!

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Questions?

Ask your question on the OpenEd 2007 Forum. Or email conference [at] cosl [dot] usu [dot] edu.