10th Annual Open Education Conference

For over a decade the focus of the open education community has been on creating and sharing open educational resources. We have largely succeeded in building out a vast, high quality open content infrastructure atop which a new generation of educational innovations are being built. As we celebrate the success of that work, the 10th annual Open Education 2013 Conference looks forward to the critical work of the next decade.

This year’s conference themes include:

• Developing and deploying models that support the broad adoption and use of open educational resources
• Leveraging the open content infrastructure to enable and reinvigorate efforts like prior learning assessment, alternative pathways to credentials, and informal and lifelong learning...

Overview

For over a decade the focus of the open education community has been on creating and sharing open educational resources. We have largely succeeded in building out a vast, high quality open content infrastructure atop which a new generation of educational innovations are being built. As we celebrate the success of that work, the 10th annual Open Education 2013 Conference looks forward to the critical work of the next decade.

This year’s conference themes include:

• developing and deploying models that support the broad adoption and use of open educational resources
• leveraging the open content infrastructure to enable and reinvigorate efforts like prior learning assessment, alternative pathways to credentials, and informal and lifelong learning
• measuring the impact of openness on the cost of education and various student success metrics
• exploiting the synergies between open education and parallel work in open data, open access, open government, open science, and open source
• promoting and evaluating institutional and governmental policy and strategy around open
• designing new pedagogies that leverage the reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute potential of OER
• democratizing the credentialing process with open badges
• supporting open study groups and other opportunities for social interaction
• innovating at the bleeding edge of openness

Keynote Speakers
Following the keynote format we premiered in 2011, this year’s keynote addresses will come in pairs. These paired keynotes will provide a range of perspectives on timely topics of critical importance to the field of open education.

Keynote Pairing 1: MOOCs

Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Daphne is also one of the founders of Coursera. She believes that education should be a right, not a privilege, and that Coursera is one way to make that happen.

George Siemens
George Siemens is a Professor at the Center for Distance Education and a researcher and strategist with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of the Connectivism theory of learning and co-creator of the first MOOC in 2008.

Keynote Pairing 2: Critical Views of Open Education

Audrey Watters
Audrey Watters is a journalist, a high school dropout, and a PhD dropout – though she did complete a Master’s degree in Folklore. As a freelancer writing about educational technology, her stories have appeared on NPR/KQED’s MindShift blog, in O’Reilly Radar, on Inside Higher Ed, in The School Library Journal, on ReadWriteWeb, and in the Edutopia blog.

David Kernohan
David Kernohan is a Programme Manager for e-Learning at Jisc. He works on online and open education there, having managed a range of major initiatives including the Open Education Resources programme. He also has an expertise in English Higher Education policy and global HE trends, having previously worked for HEFCE as a policy analyst.

 Keynote Pairing 3: OER

Christine Geith

Christine Geith is assistant provost and executive director of Michigan State University MSUglobal Knowledge and Learning Innovations. She leads the development of new entrepreneurial approaches in higher education using technology, online learning and open models. Recently, she’s worked with faculty to open up critical knowledge to help transform global food systems and agriculture.