Open Education Week 2015 | ETMOOC Blog Hub

It is Open Education Week 2015 this week! In light of our focus on globalization and open courses, this is the perfect time to celebrate and learn more about open education. Join us as we engage in discussion and participate in various events that are taking place across the world.

About Open Education Week

Open Education Week is a series of events to increase awareness of open education movement. The third annual Open Education Week takes place from March 9-13, both online and offline around the world. Through the events and resources, we hope to reach out to more people to demonstrate what kind of opportunities open education has created and what we have to look forward to.

Click here to access the 2015 Event Schedule.

Below are online webinars for the week.

March 9^th	March 10^th	March 11^th	March 12^th	March 13^th
	7:30 AM (CST) A Preview of OER15: Mainstreaming Open Education	7 AM (CST) How to find free copyrighted material on the Internet	8:15 AM (CST) Living and learning in the open: Supporting and developing open courses	6 AM (CST) Marvelous Mapping: Reflecting on online identities and practices using Visitors & Residents Mapping
9 AM (CST) Education Seminar: “Open & Online Education”	9 AM (CST) Workshop: Develop an “Open” Course Design		9 AM (CST) Debate: Is Open & Online education the way forward?
	9 AM (CST) Transnational Virtual Mobilities		9 AM (CST) The impact of Open Education on internationalisation models of universities
	11 AM (CST) OER Uptake in Adult Education Institutions
	11:30 AM (CST) Institute for Open Leadership
	12 PM (CST) Open MOOCs with the Open Education Consortium	12 PM (CST) Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Program
		12 PM (CST) Curriculum Development in a Transdisciplinary Collaboration Space
1 PM (CST) A Discussion on Open Pedagogy	1 PM (CST) Distinguishing the dOERs: Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources	1 PM (CST) Can I actually use it? Testing open textbooks for accessibility	1 PM (CST) Education Innovations with Creative Commons – from OER, to Pedagogy, to Policy	1 PM (CST) The Open Web: (a) Lost (b) Reclaimed (c) Co-claimed (d) All of the above
	1 PM (CST) The Battle for Open		1 PM (CST) Institutional Library Support
2 PM (CST) Sustainability Strategies for Open Educational Resources		2 PM (CST) The Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources Initiative	2 PM (CST) The Open Education Movement in Australia
		2:30 PM (CST) Achieve OER
6 PM (CST) Stop believing in Magic: Business Models for Open Education	7:30 PM (CST) Institute for Open Leadership

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