ALT has produced this call to action to highlight to education policy makers and professionals how Open Education and OER can expand inclusive and equitable access to education and lifelong learning, widen participation, and create new opportunities for the next generation of teachers and learners, preparing them to become fully engaged digital citizens.
This week 185 participants came together in London for the OER17: The Politics of Open conference and many more participated online. OER17 presented an opportunity for open practitioners, activists, educators and policy makers to come together as a community to reflect on ‘The Politics of Open’. We asked what are our current key challenges and strengths – locally, nationally, and internationally? What are our priorities – in terms of political governance, organisational and personal politics? What are the changes that we want to effect together?
This year we celebrate a special Open Education Week 27-30 March in the Year of Open. All across our community of Members and beyond we come together to advocate for openness in Education and the important role Learning Technology can play in supporting it.
The recently launched ALT Strategy for 2017-2020 sets out openness as one of the core values of our Members and it also includes as one of the three strategic aims to ‘increase the impact of Learning Technology for public benefit’.
We are delighted to announce that the #OER17: The Politics of Open call for proposals has now been published. The 8th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER17: The Politics of Open, will be held from 5 to 6 April 2017 at Resource for London, UK. The deadline for proposals is on midday GMT Wednesday, 16 November 2016. The conference themes for submission this year are:
