To help you plan your participation the conference program schedule can be filtered by date, venue, session type, and session format using the Filter functions.
Filter by Date lets you look at a specific day of the program. Filter by Venue lets you look at the program by venue rooms where sessions are taking place. Filter by Type lets you look at the program by track. In addition to keynotes and breaks the program is made up of three main tracks or types of sessions Pedagogy, Roles, and Strategies. Clicking on a type in Filter by Type lets you see only sessions of that type in the program schedule. In addition, Pedagogy, Roles, and Strategies each have a set of associated topics. Topics appear when you hover over a type name in the Filter by Type area of Sched. Topics are clickable allowing you to further filter the program by topic. Session Format lets you view the program by types of sessions - Action Labs, Lightning Talks, Posters, Presentations, and World Cafes.
The conference program is rich and diverse representing the current state of open education around the world.
Publicly accessible education materials allow teachers and learners to enrich their topics with all sorts of relevant content. It is understandable that early examples of Open Education Resources (OER) mainly consist of texts, images and video, because those are the prominent media that are easily shareable through online platforms. However, if we consider pre-digital learning materials, the academic repositories are much more diverse with a key role for artifacts. Academic object collections have always been of great value in making content imaginable in education. Besides books in libraries we can find collections of for example plants in a botanical garden, pictures in a pinacotheca, sculptures in a glyptotheque, and the like. With new digital techniques some of these academic collections can be digitized into 3D models that can be openly shared in online repositories so others can reuse and remix them.
We envision a near future in which 3D models will become prominent resources in many fields of education. This relates to the current major developments in spatial computing with Virtual Reality (VR) as the iconic new viewing technology and Augmented Reality (AR) as the most promising spatial technology for open online education. AR education situates the learners by surrounding them with learning materials that are visually and audibly superimposed on the real world. In this way learners can relate real-life context with AR models while involving their own physical perspective and bodily activity in the learning activity.
During a two-year teaching fellowship at the TU Delft teaching lab, and in a series of AR/VR incubator workshops we are prototyping and testing diverse AR education situations. We developed and shared our own OER4ARE models and reused and remixed existing models. In this session we will present use cases of online 3D model repositories and best practices for the OER4ARE workflow.
