Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content
September 27-29, 2006

Submission Instructions

The submission deadline has passed.

Submit a brief description (50 words or less) and a long description (500 words) describing your topic, project, and/or research related to one or more of the conference themes. All presenters are required to register for the conference.

OpenEd 2006 will focus on the social, cultural and technical aspects of ...

• Open educational resources
• Tools and software supporting open education
• Reusing and remixing open educational resources

Acceptance announcements will be made by July 20, 2006. If your session was accepted for presentation, we strongly encourage you to submit a full paper for publication in the conference proceedings. Accepted full papers (5-10 pages) are due no later than August 15, 2006

All submissions (brief description, long description and full papers) and presentations must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).

Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance decisions will be made based on the following criteria:

A submission is RELEVANT when

• it directly address one or more of the conference themes

A submission is SIGNIFICANT when

• it raises and discusses issues important to improving the effectiveness and/or sustainability of open education efforts, and
• its contents can be broadly disseminated and understood

A submission is ORIGINAL when

• it addresses a new problem or one that hasn't been studied in depth,
• it has a novel combination of existing research results which promise new insights, and / or
• it provides a perspective on problems different from those explored before

A submission is of HIGH QUALITY when

• existing literature is drawn upon, and / or
• claims are supported by sufficient data, and / or
• an appropriate methodology is selected and properly implemented, and / or
• limitations are described honestly

A submission is CLEARLY WRITTEN when

• it is organized effectively, and / or
• the English is clear and unambiguous, and / or
• it follows standard conventions of punctuation, mechanics, and citation, and / or
• the readability is good