OER18 - Welcome and keynote by Lorna Campbell.
OER18: Open to All9th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy18 – 19 April 2018, Bristol, UK
OER18
turned the focus on one of the often-cited benefits of ‘open’ – the
promise of inclusivity. How do the resources, methods and projects that
make up Open Education support making education available to all? As a
movement over 15 years old, has Open Education made an impact – on
learners, on society and on education? What can we do to to support
learning in the open – and how can we use open to support learning?
The
conference was chaired by academic and Open Education researcher
Vivien Rolfe, alongside Wonkhe Associate Editor David Kernohan
Lorna Campbell’s keynote focused on how the OER Conference has examined and
renegotiate what “OER” means over the years, and how this has reflected
her own journey as an open education practitioner. She also looked at what we can do to ensure that open education is diverse,
inclusive and participatory, and using innovative examples from the
University of Edinburgh, she explored how we can engage students in
open education practice and the co-creation of OER.
About the presenter
Lorna
works for the University of Edinburgh’s OER Service within the Learning
Teaching and Web Services Directorate. She has a longstanding personal
commitment to supporting open education; she founded the Open Scotland initiative, was co-chair of the OER16 Open Culture Conference, is a Trustee of Wikimedia UK and of the Association for Learning Technology, and a member of the Open Knowledge Open Education Working Group Advisory Board. Lorna is also the driving force behind the Scottish Open Education Declaration. Her blog, Open World, http://lornamcampbell.org/,
features personal reflections on all aspects of open education, and
she regularly live-tweets open education conferences and events at @lornamcampbell
For session information see
https://oer18.oerconf.org/sessions/welcome-and-keynote-lorna-campbell/