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Open Education 2014

7:30am EST

Registration Virginia Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EST

Keynote - Larry Lessig Virginia Ballroom

9:45am EST

Landscape of OER Strategic Challenges and Opportunities Richmond From theory to practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research? Roanoke Opportunities and Challenges for OER in the K-12 Environment Virginia Ballroom Libraries & Open Educational Resources Crystal Ballroom

10:15am EST

OCW Educator: Sharing the How as well as the What Richmond Creativity with Control – Improving the quality of open education research through a blended project management environment. Roanoke OER in K-12: How can we best advance adoption? Virginia Ballroom Libraries & Open Educational Resources Cont'd Crystal Ballroom

11:00am EST

Recipe for Success – A Behind the Scenes Tour of the 'OER Kitchen' at Mountain Heights Academy Richmond Perceptions of socio-ethical stances surrounding massive online open courses. Roanoke Meeting Common Core Instructional Shifts through OER Virginia Ballroom Going Open: How Libraries are Advancing OER Adoption on Campus Crystal Ballroom

11:30am EST

K-12 Blueprint for Course Construction Richmond Community Input on Simon DataLab Roanoke Going Open: How Libraries are Advancing OER Adoption on Campus Cont'd Crystal Ballroom OER: Its sheer adaptable nature lends itself perfectly to district to district collaboration and adoption. Virginia Ballroom

1:15pm EST

Open Pedagogy to Solicit Student Voice Richmond From MOOC to Degree/postgraduate. Proposal to link informal with formal Higher Education Virginia Ballroom Understanding the interplay between open culture, institutional structure and academic agency in lecturers' contribution and non-contribution of Open Educational Resources: A social realist approach Roanoke Libraries & OER Publishing: Models That Work Crystal Ballroom

1:45pm EST

Using OER to Fuel Collaboration Richmond A Review of Research on the Perceptions, Influence, and Cost-Savings of OER: Looking Back and Looking Forward Virginia Ballroom Libraries & OER Publishing: Models That Work Cont'd Crystal Ballroom Open source tools for remixing, managing, integrating, and using OER Roanoke

2:30pm EST

Removing 'unfreedoms' through OER use in India's teacher education system Richmond Research on OER for Development (ROER4D) in the Global South Project Roanoke OER in Western Canada Virginia Ballroom OER & Professional Development in Libraries Crystal Ballroom

3:00pm EST

A Grassroots Approach to Supporting OER Literacy Development with Rural Teachers Richmond How can open scholarship address academia's lack of impact on the ground? Virginia Ballroom OER & Professional Development in Libraries Cont'd Crystal Ballroom Towards a Reference Model for Open Education Roanoke

3:45pm EST

Revise and Remix: Tackling The Hard Part Of OER's 'Four R's' Richmond Mapping OER: Prototypes and challenges Roanoke Supporting the adoption of Open Educational Practices in Australian higher education through capacity-building Virginia Ballroom The Future of Libraries & OER: Reflections, Connections & Plans Crystal Ballroom

4:15pm EST

Open Online Course Design and Development: Challenges and Promises Richmond A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students Virginia Ballroom Skills Mapping and Analytics for OER Roanoke The Future of Libraries & OER: Reflections, Connections & Plans Cont'd Crystal Ballroom

6:00pm EST

Reception - Sponsored by Courier Virginia Ballroom

7:30am EST

Registration Virginia Ballroom Foyer

8:15am EST

Mini-Keynote Virginia Ballroom

8:30am EST

Keynote - Heather Joseph Virginia Ballroom

9:30am EST

Break - Sponsored by Saylor Academy Virginia Ballroom Foyer

9:45am EST

Adopt, Remix, Create: Meeting University Goals with an Open Textbook Initiative Virginia Ballroom The maturing OER ecosystem: partners, expansion, and critical questions Crystal Ballroom OER Policy in North America and Europe Richmond Changing the global course of learning: Our experience teaching an open, online, formal/informal, bilingual, international, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional course Roanoke

10:15am EST

'Eyes That Survey the World': the latest data snapshot from OER Research Hub Crystal Ballroom Open Education Breakthrough: Institutions Removing Barriers to Usage Virginia Ballroom Openness Paradigm, a necessary reflection for the future education policies in Latin America Richmond Open peer review as educational resource Roanoke

11:00am EST

Implementing Open Textbooks in an Online Biology Lab Course Roanoke The Open Textbook Initiative: Partners and Progress Crystal Ballroom Championing the Cause: Bridging State Policy and Practice in K-12 OER Richmond Open Tools for Open Publishing Virginia Ballroom

11:30am EST

Merging the original R with the Open 4-Rs - 'wRiting goes OER' Roanoke Supporting OER within the realities of existing campus systems Crystal Ballroom Higher Education institutions as boosters of a national policy on OER Richmond Open Learning Analytics Virginia Ballroom

1:15pm EST

Are Open Educational Resources (OERs) Bringing Paradigm Shift in Higher Education in India? Roanoke Desirable Disruption: Replicate the Z-Degree Virginia Ballroom How not to promote open sharing of educational materials at a university Richmond Using open standards to solve everything Crystal Ballroom

1:45pm EST

A Pedagogical Fabric for Open Education Roanoke Kaleidoscope 2.0: An Open Course Design, Development, and Adoption Approach at Cross Institutional Scale Virginia Ballroom OEP at the University of Tasmania: in practice and policy Richmond The Best of Both Worlds? Transforming OpenCourseWare in the age of interactivity Crystal Ballroom

2:30pm EST

K12 OER Collaborative Virginia Ballroom Making (Re-)Sharing Central: New Software Architectures for OER Dissemination & Discovery Crystal Ballroom The State of Open in Virginia Richmond Using Multiple Means of Open to Solve Global Food Safety Challenges Roanoke

3:00pm EST

From OER newbies to leaders in the community: the Kaleidoscope Fellows' Experience Virginia Ballroom How to manage the adaptation of open textbooks Crystal Ballroom Lessons learned & important foundations in European OER-policy Richmond Using the Collection and Technology of the Digital Public Library of America for Open Education Roanoke

8:00am EST

Registration Virginia Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EST

Keynote - John Wilbanks Virginia Ballroom

9:45am EST

An API of One's Own: Individual Identities as First-Class Citizens in the Open Badges Infrastructure Richmond Impact of International Organizations on Governmental OER Policies Blue Ridge Room Making the Sausage: The Greasy Process of Scaling OER in Virginia Crystal Ballroom Dinner for seven: Reflections on VCU's first cMOOC Roanoke Lumen Learning: Community, Sustainability, Student Success Virginia Ballroom

10:15am EST

Open Digital Badges: Achievement Based Learning in K12 Richmond OER, Open Access and Scholarship in Portuguese Public Higher Education Blue Ridge Room Evolving Towards Open At A Relatively Closed Institution Crystal Ballroom Building on new architectures for OER to connect distributed communities of learning Roanoke 'A Year in the Trenches' - Lessons Learned from the Z-Degree Virginia Ballroom

11:00am EST

Open Teacher Training--Changing the Focus of Teacher Prep Richmond Understanding the interplay between open culture, institutional structure and academic agency in lecturers' contribution and non-contribution of Open Educational Resources: A social realist approach Blue Ridge Room NOVA's OER-Based Certificate and Associate Degree Project. Crystal Ballroom Universities Without Borders Roanoke Tools for the Bleeding Edge of Open Learning Virginia Ballroom

11:30am EST

Delivering OCW/OER on a Competency-Based Learning Platform Richmond Open textbook development and analytics Blue Ridge Room OER Remix Ology: A (gently) shaken, not stirred, curriculum and course design model Crystal Ballroom Case Studies on the Student as Producer Roanoke Web-based open learning tools for the blind Virginia Ballroom

1:15pm EST

Adaptive, Competency-based, OER Programs Richmond Peer review of OER in contested areas explored by activity theory Blue Ridge Room California's Open Textbook Legislation Promotes Adoption of OER To Reduce Costs and Expand Access Crystal Ballroom If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education as Resistance Roanoke Toward a Paleoconnectivism Reader Virginia Ballroom

1:45pm EST

Moving from Open Courseware to Student-Created Degree Pathways Richmond Scaffolding Of Smart Cities With Open Educational Resources Blue Ridge Room Utilizing Service-Learning to Facilitate Adult Basic Education OER Adoption Roanoke Rethinking Technology's Role in Sustaining the Future of the University Crystal Ballroom Ethics, Openness and the Future of Education Virginia Ballroom

2:30pm EST

Positive Institutional Consequences for Open Course Design Richmond Transformative power of open assessment and heutagogical investment in Rwanda Blue Ridge Room 19th Century Pedagogy, 21st Century Tools Crystal Ballroom Mookia: Open Courses Meet Social Learning Roanoke ELMSLN: Open system design for open content production Virginia Ballroom

3:00pm EST

Next Generation for OER Movement: Aligning OER to Competency-Based Education at University of Maryland University College Richmond Research Approach on assessment and feedback methods that impact students' engagement in MOOCs Blue Ridge Room System-wide OER Adoption Initiatives Virginia Ballroom The Transition to Open Educational Resources at UMUC Crystal Ballroom

3:45pm EST

A New Chapter in Prior Learning Assessment and Degree Completion Richmond Influence of Open Educational Resources (OER) in increasing Entry to University Education among the Marginalized Communities in Kenya Blue Ridge Room Adopting and adapting: The higher-education faculty journey of opening education and resources Crystal Ballroom Crowd sourcing of assessments in a developing country Virginia Ballroom

4:15pm EST

Increasing Opportunity, Access, and Speed to Degree through Open Courses Richmond Accessibility issues in MOOCs: potential services for people with functional diversity Blue Ridge Room Make Your Case: Funding a Library-Led OER Initiative in Tough Economic Times Crystal Ballroom Domain of One's Own: Aggregating Community on the Open Web Virginia Ballroom