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Conferece: OpenEducation 2007
For the past two years, the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University in Logan has hosted its annual OpenEducation conference, which has fast become an important stop on the open education community circuit. The 2007 edition, coming up September 26-29, promises to be more of the same; in the past, conference themes have largely addressed issues of OER licensing and production, but the focus this time on end user issues of how open educational resources and localized and used in learning.
Current list of keynote speakers includes:
- Fred Mednick, a principal for almost 20 years, founded Teachers Without Borders in order to address a pressing need for durable educational change and solutions, worldwide, at the secondary level.
- Manohar Bhattarai. Serving currently as a full-time Member of High Level Commission for Information Technology, an ICT policy and strategy body formed under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Nepal, Manohar has been actively involved in developing strategies for social appropriation of ICTs in Nepal.
- Ramita Shrestha. Since 2004, Ramita has managed a small technology center for rural villagers to gain access to critical content for development
- Brian Lamb, the Emerging Technologies Discoordinator at the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia. He has spoken and written extensively on cool stuff!
The OpenCourseWare Consortium will be holding it’s semiannual meeting in conjunction with OpenEducaiton again, so it’s also a great opportunity to connect with folks in OCW circles as well.
