OER15 The 6th International Open Education Conference
14th and 15th April 2015
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3EROrganisation
The Open Education Conference is an International Conference currently organised by a volunteer committee from the Open Education Community. OER15 is hosted by OER Wales Cymru, Universities Wales and the Association for Learning Technology and will take place in Cardiff in April 2015.
It will be hosted and run by the Association for Learning Technology with effect from September 2016 thus securing the sustainability of the conference for future years.
Chairs
The OER15 Conference is chaired by Haydn Blackey Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at University of South Wales and Martin Weller Professor of Educational Technology, Institute of Educational Technology Professoriat, at the Open University.
Haydn Blackey
Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at University of South WalesMartin Weller Professor of Educational Technology
Institute of Educational Technology ProfessoriatThemes
The conference focus is ‘Mainstreaming Open Education’ with the following sub themes.
- Impact Research
- Open Education across Languages and Cultures
- Learners and Other Communities
- Open Educational Practice (OEP) and Policy
- Open Courses
- Open Education in Colleges and Schools
Committee Members
- Christa Appleton
- Paul Bacsich
- Deborah Baff (Project Manager)
- Panos Bamidis
- Tom Bartlett
- Haydn Blackey (Co-Chair)
- Sarah Bridgman
- Siobhan Burke
- Sue Burnett
- Alastair Clark
- Anna Comas-Quinn
- Anna Davidge
- Maren Deepwell
- Martin Hawksey
- Simon Horrocks
- David Kernohan
- Tharindu Liyanagunawardena
- Terry McAndrew
- Chrissi Nerantzi
- Lis Parcell
- Megan Quentin-Baxter
- Paul Richardson
- Ben Ryan
- Simon Thomson
- Dafydd Trystan
- Greg Walker
- Martin Weller (Co-Chair)
Link to OER14