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.
Instructional Designers/Learning Designers/Instructional Developers (IDs) occupy a unique position in higher education as a support to faculty in the course development process. As an awareness of OER grows in higher education in Canada and the US, and a body of research pointing to the benefits, barriers and challenges in implementing OER more broadly emerges, it is important to shed the light on the role of instructional designers in relation to open education practices (OEPs). In their role as support to faculty in the course development (and often delivery) process, instructional designers can play an important part in alleviating some of the well-known barriers of OEP: faculty time required to find appropriate OER to adopt or remix, resistance to change, and institutional support (Annand and Jensen, 2017, Barker et al, 2018; Jhangiani et al, 2016). Yet little is known about how IDs engage with OEPs in the course development process and how they see their role in relation to OEPs. This presentation will focus on the results of a qualitative study that examined how instructional designers at BC public post-secondary institutions incorporate OEPs into the course development process or in the process of working with faculty. Results discussed will include: the role of senior leadership; how IDs position and advocate for OEPs in their institutions; and how IDs can be better supported in working with OEPs.
