Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference
07-July-2005
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iterating toward openness " Open Education Conference 2005It's that time of year again! Last year's Open Education Conference at USU was described by several as "the best conference I ever attended." This year's conference should be even better. Keynotes this year include John Seely Brown (Social Life of Information) and Yochai Benkler (Coase's Penguin).
The Call for Papers is available now. Please submit something! General information on the conference, including a Flyer and Presentation Slide you can use to help us advertise, is available at http://cosl.usu.edu/conference/.
Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education ConferenceAdvances in information technology have spread communications capabilities to every clime. There is a great potential and responsbility for educators, instructional technologists, and learning scientists to leverage these advances in order to extend educational opportunity to literally everyone who desires it. As Epictetus said, "Only the educated are free."
...Please join us September 28 - 30, 2005 on the Utah State University campus to discuss, share, and work together in this important area of educational and technological research...
more from the Call for papers...
Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference is a multidisciplinary event designed to promote discussion of research and development activities that advance the effectiveness and sustainability of the open education movement.
We invite you to present at the conference. Presentations should address at least one of the four conference themes: open educational resources, overcoming barriers to open education, international issues in open education, and policy and administrative issues in open education. Preference will be given to presentations that synthesize multiple themes in robust ways.
Submissions are due by July 15, 2005.
Acceptance announcements will be made by August 1, 2005. Once accepted, we strongly encourage you to submit your paper for publication in the proceedings. Full papers are due no later than September 1, 2005, and must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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