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Conference: OpenLearn 2007
The Open University UK’s OpenLearn project is hosting its first conference, OpenLearn 2007: Researching Open Content in Education, October 30-31st in Milton Keynes, United kingdom. Here’s how they describe the event:
New opportunities to learn at a distance are broadening the ways in which people can engage in learning, whilst new technologies mean that learning can increasingly take place within a global community. Open and free educational resources are an important component in this expanded world of learning and major initiatives are now underway to provide them.
If you are interested in the research and business challenges involved in providing, using and sustaining free and open resources then OpenLearn 2007 invites you to participate and contribute to an event that will open up the findings of those working in this challenging area and consider how we can develop research in open content.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the people at OpenLearn and they have a top shelf group of researchers there, working to understand the OER world. This promises to be the most rigorous look yet at how open materials are being produced, used, and sustained. Should be well worth the price of admission.
