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.
Asuka Academy, a non-profit organization founded in 2014, has been dedicated to make the world-class Open Educational Resources (OER) contents available in Japanese through volunteer translation. We also redistribute and promote the quality OER courses in Japan. As of October 2019, we have opened 101 courses including those provided by MIT, UCI, TU Delft, etc. On cumulative basis, the total volume number of learners has grown to 30,704 learners since we started the projects.
Our OER translation has been made possible with the support of by individuals and organizational volunteers in Japan and other countries including the US, New Zealand, and Australia. More than 1,500 volunteers from high schools, universities, corporations, and individuals, have participated in our translation projects.
We found that the key to continuously organize these volunteers is to support them to position the translation projects as a part of their learning journey: intellectual curiosity in the authentic contents, English skill improvement, motivation to study abroad, Creativity Action, and Service (CAS) activities for the International Baccalaureate (IB), collaboration between foreign universities, career advancement, and life-long learning. In particular, more than half of the volunteers are high school students. Some of them have been inspired to study at these foreign universities. Thus, Asuka Academy contributes not only to those who learn through the OER in Japanese but also to those who grow through volunteer translation experiences.
Winners of the 2019 Open Education Award for Excellence: OER Translations
