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Click here to see wiki documentation of the sessions.
The Open Educational Resources gathering which took place in Dubrovnik at the iSummit '07 has attributed, even in a small way, to the global growth of the OER movement over the last year. Following on from that landmark gathering, the Open Education '08 lab aims to capitalise on the momentum which continues to gather in the OER community.
The Open Education '08 lab, now known as 'Education Policy and Practice in a New Century: Implementing what Works', will challenge and stimulate participants over six sessions during where tangible elements will be developed as follows:
- A checklist on the practical implementation of open education which could be applied to your project;
- An updated map of what is happening in open education around the world, including developments in this sphere since Dubrovnik 07;
- Concrete collaborative projects in the 'easy wins' in the practice and policy departments;
- A clear picture of how Creative Commons, ccLearn, iCommons and other catalyst organisations can best contribute to the broader open education movement.
During the first session, participants will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and their projects and will confirm and refine the goals for the duration of the lab. A brief background will be provided on the Open Education Track 2007 and the results of some initiatives that were begun at that time.
During Session 2's Map/Matrix for Open Education, participants will begin compiling the Open Education checklist and a discussion will take place around the criteria to be fulfilled by an OER project in order to successfully initiate and implement open education, and how this can be assessed.
Session 3 will investigate the practical legal obstacles to educational resources being open. There are a host of legal issues, in addition to copyright, which arise for open educational practitioners and these issues will be up for an open debate, and a brainstorming session on possible solutions will take place.
In the following session, participants will look at how to ensure maximum community involvement in the conceptualisation, production, dissemination and sustainability of open education resources.
In the dissemination-focused Session 4, titled Promulgating OERs: getting to the right people, this interactive gathering will look at how to ensure that open educational content gets to where it is most needed through technical and publishing tools and practices.
Session 6 will be a round up and preparation for feedback to the whole iSummit community.
Pic by tom-b on flickr.com, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
