OE Global 2019

Session Table Name: BELLAGIO

The core concept behind the World Cafe is to bring together librarians and a range of cross-disciplinary professionals to actively explore how we can better collaborate to increase, and rapidly, access to Open Education resources. This event is being proposed by the European Network of Open Education Librarians. Members of this growing group of academic librarians and OE stakeholders serve as OE ambassadors and facilitators, driving awareness and support for Open Education at our individual institutions. Thanks to the advances made in OA and OS in the past decade plus, the academic and scholarly communities have a store of relevant learnings to draw upon as we intensify efforts to move Open Education forward in Europe. But if we are to fully capitalize on all that we have learned, we must collaborate, partner -- share. Since our inception in Spring of 2018, our Network has done the foundational work of exploring the key challenges to implementing OE. Moving to the next phase of addressing these challenges requires that we draw many more voices into the conversation. Enter OE Global and the World Cafe. Our session would engage a broad swath of stakeholders and foster conversations around how to encourage partnerships and collaborations that advance Open Education.