Welcome International Attendees!
Written by Yang Wu, a member of the #OpenEd21 Communications Committee
The Open Education Conference (OpenEd) is the largest gathering on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Education in North America and one of the largest in the world. The conference seeks to give voice to diverse perspectives from across the globe. People from over 60 countries attended OpenEd last year, adding to the richness of the conference by serving as speakers, conference planning committee members and taking part as participants.
OpenEd21 offers an even greater opportunity for international attendees to learn from and network with OER and Open Education enthusiasts and advocates from around the world. The entire conference is virtual and most sessions are either pre-recorded and made viewable on the conference website, or recorded live and made available for viewing 24 hours after the event to accommodate attendees from different time zones. To support non-native English speakers, all recordings are also English captioned. OpenEd21 also provides a social space on Discord where conversations can happen around the clock, allowing people to participate wherever they are in the world. The conference this year includes presentations by dozens of international speakers, including:
Tuesday, October 19th
A Research Landscape on OER in Brazil: The Teaching of First and Foreign Languages, by Rodrigo Lima Lopes, Senior Lecturer, University of Campinas
Pedagogical Approach For Digital Literacy Education Utilizing OER, by Katsusuke Shigeta, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan
OERs for Data Literacy and Knowledge Equity: Integrating Wikidata into Higher Education, by Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lecturer & PhD candidate, Tel Aviv University; Wikimedia Foundation
Wednesday, October 20th
Implementation of Open Educational Resources in the Universities of Russian Federation, by Kseniya Nikitina, Specialist, RUDN University
Thursday, October 21st
Friday, October 22nd
Synergies between Open Education and Open Science: OER Development, Projects and Trends in Austria, by Martin Ebner, iMoox, Claudia Hackl, Projectmanager, University of Vienna, Austria and Sandra Schön, Researcher, FNMA
These are the sessions I am looking forward to, and you can find sessions that match your interest by browsing the conference schedule. Registration for the conference is open until October 18th, the start of OpenEd21. Please use the conference registration page to join!
