The final program should be available shortly…

• John Britton, Chinese University of Hong Kong (student)
• Philise Rasugu, African Virtual University
• Julian Sukmana Putra, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia (student)
• Stian Haklev, Norway
• Robert Boyczuk, Seneca College, Toronto

Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who applied – we had about thirty applicants for five scholarships, and the judging was tough! Also, many, many thanks to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for their continued support of the Open Ed scholarships.

Finally, the Open Ed 2008 program is now available online. The speakers and topics for this year are incredible… This should be the best Open Ed conference ever! =)

We’re pleased to announce that the conference registration for Open Education 2007 is now open.

The early registration deadline is Friday, September 7 — after that date all of the rates will go up. So please register early! To register online, please visit http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/opened2007/registration.

To view the preliminary program online (subject to change), please visit http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/opened2007/program.

To view details about how to travel to Utah State University, please visit http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/opened2007/travel.

If you have any questions, please post them to the OpenEd 2007 Forums.

We’re looking forward to seeing you September 26-28, 2007 in Logan, UT!

Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University
Conference dates are September 26-28, 2007

Submission deadline is May 18, 2007

Conference Themes
For the first several years our field focused on content production and content licensing. Today, there are thousands of full university courses and tens of thousands of learning modules available as open educational resources under open licenses like those offered by Creative Commons. However, our work isn’t finished; we’re simply nearing a checkpoint.

If our open education efforts aren’t supporting learning, we’re failing as a field. Period. And as we are beginning to understand how to produce and license content, we have to turn some of our attention to how this content is used by learners and teachers. How do they change, adapt, and localize it for their specific needs or the needs of their specific students? Do open educational resources support learning in ways different from non-open resources? In what concrete ways do open educational resources support learning?

OpenEd 2007 will focus on:
* Localizing open educational resources
* Learning from open educational resources

Acceptance announcements will be made by July 31, 2007. If your session was accepted for presentation, we strongly encourage you to submit a full paper for publication in the conference proceedings. Accepted full papers (5-10 pages) are due no later than August 17, 2007.

All submissions (short description, abstract and full papers) and presentations must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0).

For more info please see the conference website http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/opened2007/ or
email conference at cosl dot usu dot edu.

Pop!Tech

Theme: Science, technology and the future of ideas

Begins: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 at 7:00 PM

Ends: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 at 12:00 PM

Location:

Camden, Maine

Last date for registration: Wed, 18 Oct 2006

Last date for paper submission: Wed, 18 Oct 2006

Link: Pop!Tech Homepage

Highlights this year will surely include Creative Commons General Counsel Mia Garlick answering the question “What is commercial use?.” The earth will possibly explode as Brian Lamb and Todd Richmond give talks at the same conference with the titles “DIY Educators Gone Wild: Where are the Instructional Mash-Ups?” and “Open Content: Must Anarchy Reign?” (hint: Todd will answer a resounding yes.) Representatives from UNESCO and OECD will be speaking; the Hewlett and Mellon Foundations, the main US funders behind open source in education, will be speaking. Presenters from a dozen or more countries will talk about everything from the technical bleeding-edge to the no tech zones of Nepal. And of course the major OCW projects from the US, EU, and Asia will be represented as well. It is going to be a rockin time for sure. You can check out the detailed program online, though it is subject to minor changes.

Please pass along to everyone you know. We look forward to seeing you in Logan September 27-29!