Sometimes, when you are right in the middle of something, it is difficult to enjoy the scene, nor does it allow you to see the big picture. The Open Education Week in March and the Open Education Global Conference 2015 in April kept us at the Consortium quite occupied earlier in the year. Now, we have to start preparing for the next Global Conference, and as I am going through the 2015 conference website in preparation for the 2016 Conference, I am having a great time reliving the moment. I would like to share a couple blog posts on the Conference so that you too can remember the excitement. And if you missed the OE Global this year, this is your chance to catch up.
Let me start the list with a post by Mary Burgess on her takeaways from the Conference: The Open Education Consortium Global Conference.
There is another blog post from BC Campus – an interview with Dr. Irwin DeVries, Thompson River University on how his experience was with OE Global at OE Global 2015 Conference Inspires Heart and Vision.
Una Daly does a great job summarizing the event in her blog post OEC Global 2015 Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
And Briar Jamieson wrote Open Education Global, Beginner’s Heart, which also provides a thorough recap of the Conference from a perspective of an Open Education newbie. Actually, she kept insisting that she was new to Open Education, but I am not sure whether others bought that bit.
Robert Farrow offers his summary on the keynote speeches.
OE Global keynote Dirk van Damme
And Stephen Downes also writes about Mark’s keynote in his blog post Mark Surman on Open Education and Open Internet. The depth and details that he offers makes you think that you are watching the video of the keynote.
Heather Ross talks about the Conference via her blog post The Week That Was – Publication and OEGlobal 2015.
Here’s an update on OERu by Wayne MacKintosh in his blog post OERu at Open Education Global 2015.
And Martin Weller shares his insight from the Athabasca Library that having to cater to needs of students of MOOCs who don’t have access to the libraries led to the library’s gathering OERs in one place in his post MOOCs as Open Driver.
There are still more blog posts, but I will stop here for now and leave you to go back to the Conference website and browse the presentations and papers. You can find a selection of papers from OE global in the special issue of Open Praxis. You can find pictures of the Conference on Flickr. And you can search with hashtag #oeglobal on social media if you can’t quite think up that name or presentation. The workshops, presentations, social events, conversations, and the location all contributed to making OE Global a conference worth reliving the moment.