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 3ER

Organisation

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 Wales

Martin Weller Professor of Educational Technology
Institute of Educational Technology Professoriat

Themes

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

1. Christa Appleton
2. Paul Bacsich
3. Deborah Baff (Project Manager)
4. Panos Bamidis
5. Tom Bartlett
6. Haydn Blackey (Co-Chair)
7. Sarah Bridgman
8. Siobhan Burke
9. Sue Burnett
10. Alastair Clark
11. Anna Comas-Quinn
12. Anna Davidge
13. Maren Deepwell
14. Martin Hawksey
15. Simon Horrocks
16. David Kernohan
17. Tharindu Liyanagunawardena
18. Terry McAndrew
19. Chrissi Nerantzi
20. Lis Parcell
21. Megan Quentin-Baxter
22. Paul Richardson
23. Ben Ryan
24. Simon Thomson
25. Dafydd Trystan
26. Greg Walker
27. Martin Weller (Co-Chair)

Link to OER14