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.
When the Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017 identifies building the capacity of users to find, reuse, modify and share OER; language and cultural issues; ensuring inclusive and equitable access to quality OER; developing sustainability models and supportive policy environments as the challenges to mainstreaming open education, the role of non-academic staff is subsumed under the ‘other stakeholders’ category. Yet if we imagined a scenario without these OER actors, how open would our future be? This brief presentation brings to the fore the role that learning developers can play in carrying out some of the concrete actions suggested in the Ljubljana OER Action Plan to foster open education. It is the author’s personal account of how openness becomes (or not) part and parcel of the design, production, delivery and evaluation of online and blended courses in a higher education institution in The Netherlands.
