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Open Education 2016

Steve Foerster

New World University
President
Dominica

https://newworld.ac

I'm a writer, technologist, and educator. Currently I am President of New World University in Roseau, Dominica, reaching students worldwide through distance learning and partner organisations. I have a longstanding interest in OERs which grew out of my interest in open source software.

8:30am EDT

Keynote: Gardner Campbell Grand Ballroom

9:15am EDT

Open Pedagogy Showcase Grand Ballroom

10:00am EDT

Break TBA

10:30am EDT

What 'Open' Means to the Saylor Academy Learner B12Sean Connor • Devon Ritter

10:55am EDT

Faculty Experiences, Reflections and Perceptions of Open Textbooks B13Rajiv Jhangiani • Danielle Paradis

11:30am EDT

Netease Online Open Courses - Connecting China, Connecting the World B17Allen Shun

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom

1:15pm EDT

The OERu 1st year of study: open, online and international B17Marc Singer

2:15pm EDT

The Use of Open Education Materials in Accounting B17Debbie Porter

2:40pm EDT

The Intersection of Teaching and Technology: Using OER and Next Gen Tools to Transform Learning B17Joshua Moe • Kirsten Williford

3:15pm EDT

Designing an open e-textbook for international use B17Prof. Robert Godwin-Jones Does it matter how much open? Impact in learning and degrees of openness B11Werner Westermann

3:40pm EDT

Open Textbook Student Usability Research Results B11Barbara Illowsky • Justin Whiting

9:00am EDT

Critical Instructional Design and Open Education B13Amy Collier • Sean Michael Morris • Amy Slay

9:25am EDT

The OER World Map Project- Building an 'Open Operations Room' for the OER Community B14Jan Neumann

9:50am EDT

Learning Circles: Online Learning, Offline B14Grif Peterson

10:15am EDT

Break TBA

10:45am EDT

Putting Knowledge to Work with HigherEd.org: A New Educational Portal and Search Engine Using OER in Competency-Based Education B13Kiri Dali

11:10am EDT

A little bird told me... Using social media for promotion and community building B13Yvonne Ng • Cheryl Siegel

11:35am EDT

Creative Commons Open Business Models B14Paul Stacey

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom

1:15pm EDT

Roadway to Success: The Intersection of Guided Pathways and Z-Degrees B18Christine Conner • Regina Gong • Mark Kelland • Kari Richards • Martine Rife

1:40pm EDT

Excelsior's Open OWL: engaging students and improving basic writing skills B13Mark D. Oppenneer

2:15pm EDT

The OER Degree Initiative Grand BallroomUna Daly • Donna Desrochers • Rebecca Griffiths • Richard Sebastian • David Wiley

2:40pm EDT

Connecting Open Courses to Tuition-free College Credit B14Sean Connor • Jeff Davidson • Devon Ritter

10:30am EDT

The Future of Open and Online? Toward Peer-Led Collaborative Learning B14Larry Cooperman • Stefano Stefan

10:55am EDT

Credits for MOOCs B14Willem van Valkenburg

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom

1:15pm EDT

Incorporating Open Source Into Computer Science: Why (and how?!) B11Gina Likins

1:40pm EDT

How to FLOSS, but not for your teeth! B17Cathryn Bennett

2:15pm EDT

'Open Education in the Indian context : new approaches and challenges' B17Mamta Bhatia • Hannah Marie Morris

2:40pm EDT

Extending Open Textbook Usefulness Through Reformatting and Multimedia B17Steve Foerster

3:15pm EDT

Opening Content for Developing Countries (www.oc4d.org) B17Mitchell Spence • Tiffany Ivins Spence