• the meaning of open
• open pedagogy and open educational practices
• research on the impact of OER, open pedagogy, or open educational practices
• the ethics of open
• critiques of OER and open education
• the economics of open education
• issues at the intersection of open and assessment
• tools and technologies supporting open education
• collaborations in support of open education
• promoting and evaluating institutional and governmental open policies
• lessons learned from “less successful” open education initiatives
• models supporting the adoption, use, or sustaining of OER in higher education
• models supporting the adoption, use, or sustaining of OER in K-12 education
• models supporting the adoption, use, or sustaining of OER in informal learning
• models supporting the adoption, use, or sustaining of OER in adult basic education
• the role of students in advocating for, supporting, or sustaining OER adoption and use
• the role of faculty in advocating for, supporting, or sustaining OER adoption and use
• the role of instructional designers in advocating for, supporting, or sustaining OER adoption and use
• the role of librarians in advocating for, supporting, or sustaining OER adoption and use
• synergies between open education and open data, open access, open science, and open source
• open education in developing countries
• what’s next for OER and open education
• unanticipated topics (does your topic not fit above? it fits here!)

OpenEd16 Leadership Forum
Registration for the OpenEd16 Leadership Forum, a one-day meeting occurring alongside OpenEd16 for higher ed leaders driving OER strategy, is now closed.

Photo credit: The VA Capitol by Ron Cogswell, CC BY, https://www.flickr.com/photos/22711505@N05/7358972234/.