Open Education in Action Gathering

Yohtênikâtêw Kiskêyihtamâwin Kikâ Waskawîhtâhk

http://openeducationinaction.blogspot.ca/2016/11/please-join-us-on-decemebr-6-and-7-for.html

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are freely available and can be legally used and modified by anyone. Properly leveraged, OER can help everyone in the world access free, high quality, learning materials. OER can help colleges, universities, literacy organizations, First Nations and governments meet the aims set out in the United Nations. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially with regard to SDG4: ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education, and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. This gathering will focus on different elements of open education – open courses, instructional design, open textbooks, where to store adapted and curated OERs, assessments, open licenses, and actions institutions and governments may take to support open education in their organizations.

Open Educational Practices are designed to broaden access and eliminate barriers to learning. They include the creation and adoption of open educational resources, open course development, and open pedagogy.

Please join us for the Open Education in Action conference on Tuesday, December 6th and Wednesday, December 7th at the Maskwacis Cultural College. The theme of the conference gathering is “Using Open Educational Practices and Resources in our institutions” and includes a series of presentations about:

Personal communications OER
Supports for OE adoption such as Library webinars and tutorials
OERs for modern language instruction
Institutional repositories: Open archives for research and learning
Open journal hosting
Book publishing programs
Open Education Practices at Post Secondary Educational Institutions
OER and the future of education
Champions toolkit

These presentations will make a case for why the move away from traditional (closed) practices is not only desirable but inevitable and how students, faculty, institutions, and our communities all stand to benefit greatly from this transformation.

We believe that learning is social — learning revolves around collaboration and connection — it is about bringing people together and sharing with one another. Because we value shared learning experiences so much, we want to provide an opportunity for you and your colleagues to participate in our upcoming Open Education in Action conference as a team!

Cost: $125/day includes lunch, networking and a certificate of participation

This conference gathering is brought to you in partnership with Ministry of Advanced Education-Government of Alberta, Alberta Open Education Initiative (ABOER), Maskwacis Cultural College, Olds College, Athabasca University, University of Lethbridge, University of Alberta, Mount Royal University, and University of Victoria.

Open Education in Action Gathering