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.
OER have become mainstream in higher education institutions in the UK for what has been claimed to be their potential to transform education (Tuomi, 2013). Among the potential benefits of OER is the claim that the quality of teaching and learning materials can improve when they are made available as OER (D’Antoni, 2009). In general, OER advocates claim that as teachers understand the importance of continuous questioning and improvement of their resources and practices, they will share their experiences and lessons learnt. Through OER, teachers should make suggestions on how to better foster the development of students’ skills and competences as well as their own, and therefore, the overall quality of teaching should improve. Based on the findings of a doctoral thesis exploring OER reuse for online language teaching for distance learners, this Action Lab will give the opportunity to participants to present examples of OER that have been reused and adapted for local contexts and to reflect on the potentials of OER reuse in terms of teachers' professional development and transformation of teaching practices and beliefs.
