Presenters are listed in alphabetical order.
Open Communities Sustained by Open Infrastructure
This panel discussion will focus on core educational values and considerations (like access, control, privacy, cost) and their relationship to various forms of openness, including: pedagogical approaches, community building, knowledge production, publishing models, content & software licenses, and infrastructure. The panel brings together leading practitioners in open education and OER publishing from a range of backgrounds and institutional contexts to discuss two fundamental questions:
What are our values/principles for ethical educational technologies and practices, particularly in regard to the ideals of “open” education?
How can we design and maintain educational processes, products, tools, and institutional structures that support & are owned by healthy, diverse communities?
Panelists will share lessons learned from their experiences leading institutional, provincial, and international efforts to create and adopt no-cost, high quality OERs and reflect on how this work aligns with their institutions’ larger public missions. Panelists will also offer compelling alternatives to trends in commercial educational publishing and discuss practical opportunities for attendees to collectively strengthen the communities and infrastructure needed to provide the kinds of educational opportunities they want to see in the world.