Day 1 - Wednesday, August 12, 2009
DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
- 7:00 A.M. - 8:45 A.M.
Registration & Coffee
- 8:45 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.
Opening Remarks (Theatre C300)
- 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
Keynote: OER in Africa: A Sea Change? Catherine Ngugi, Project Director,
Open Educational Resources (OER) Africa(Theatre C300)
- 10:00 A.M. - 10:15 A.M.
Break
- 10:15 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
Rm. C180
Open Education Stakeholders - Competitive Advantages
Curt Madison, University of Alaska System
Rm. C150
Having “Open” Discussions with Your System and Legislature
Cable Green, WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Dispelling Myths About Open Textbooks
Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College
Jacky Hood, Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Rm. C130
Unconference Session
Rm. C100
Supporting the Global Open Education Community: OpenEd
Ahrash Bissell, Jane Park, & Alex Kozak, Creative Commons - ccLearn
An Approach to the Problems of Personalisation and Context Dependency in Open Educational Resources
Derek Chirnside, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
- 11:00 A.M. - 11:15 A.M.
Break
- 11:15 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Rm. C180
Can International Copyright Exceptions and Limitations Support A Global Learning Commons?
Lila Bailey, ccLearn, Creative Commons
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare: A Preview Lindsey Weeramuni, MIT OpenCourseWare
Rm. C150
OpenEd StartUp - The Capilano Experience
John Wilson, Capilano University
The Open Educational Resource Project at Royal Roads University
Mary Burgess, Royal Roads University
Rm. C130
Unconference Session
Rm. C100
We Are Not Your [insert expletive] Resource: Sustainable Use of Established Communities in Open Education
Dave Cormier, Edactive Technologies, University of Prince Edward Island
- 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
Lunch
Rm. C130
A Conversation on Policy: Access, Quality, and Credentialing
George Siemens & Rory McGreal
- 1:30 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.
Rm. C180
Amazing Stories of Openness
Alan Levine, The New Media Consortium
Rm. C150
Peer 2 Peer Recognition and Accreditation
J. Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape, Peer 2 Peer University
Christine Geith, MSUglobal, Michigan State University
Stian Håklev, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
P2P University: Beginning the Journey
Joel Thierstein, Connexions
Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape, P2PU
Stian Håklev, University of Toronto
Delia Browne
Neeru Paharia
Rm. C130
(unconference): OERca - How I learned to stop worrying and create OER
Ali Asad Lotia, Pieter Kleymeer, Garin Fons - Open.Michigan, University of Michigan
Rm. C100
Open Models and Open Teaching in the Bricks and Mortar Institution Tannis Morgan, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Stephen Carey, University of British Columbia
- 2:15 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Break
- 2:30 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
Rm. C180
The Design of Openness
Jim Groom & Shannon Hauser, University of Mary Washington
Rm. C150
Free: Why Authors and Publishers are Giving Away Books
John Hilton III, Brigham Young University
Living the Dream: Best Practices in OER Publication
Joel Thierstein, Connexions
Rm. C130
(unconference): Open Source Accessibility Roadmap
Jutta Treviranus - Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, UofT and UNESCO
Rm. C100
Content, Content Everywhere? What Video? Where?: Improving the Discoverability of OER Video and Audio Lectures
Brandon Muramatsu, MIT
Opencast Project and Community
Mara Hancock, University of California, Berkeley
- 3:15 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Break
- 3:30 P.M. - 4:15 P.M.
Rm. C180
Open Textbook Panel
Murugan Pal, CK12 Foundation
Eric Frank, Flat World Knowledge
Cable Green, WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College
Steve Acker, Ohio State University
Rm. C150
Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Perspectives - A Project Supported by the Open Society Institute
Carolina Rossini, OER-Brazil & Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Rm. C130
(unconference): Open Source Accessibility Roadmap (cont.)
Jutta Treviranus - Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, UofT and UNESCO
Rm. C100
Connecting Online Learning Through Identity
King Chung Huang, University of Calgary
Openness and Identity
D’Arcy Norman, University of Calgary
- 4:15 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.
Free Time
- 6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
BBQ in Stanley Park’s Second Beach - Map Please note that we have reached our legal limit for this event, so no further tickets to the BBQ are being sold.
