Open Conference on Open Education/Planning

During Open Education Week (11-15 March 2013), La Trobe University hosted the Open Education Conference. Following on from the Radical Learning Project and CTLC Colloquium panel discussion of OERs in 2012, the Open Education Conference is a clear indication that there is already active participation Open Education and a need for La Trobe University to address OE in policy.

Purpose

To understand existing OER practice in the University, To promote discussion of OER, and produce a list of recommendations for La Trobe University.

Planning Group

The La Trobe Open Education Week planning group consisted of cross faculty, library and CTLC representation. Planning Group comprised of

Leigh Blackall (Health Sciences)
Ruth Jelley (FBEL)
Annabel Orchid (FBEL)
Simon Huggard (Library)
Roderick Saddler (Library)
John Hannon (CTLC)
Emma Yench (FSTE)
Donna Bisset (HUSS)
Mungo Jones (HUSS)

Meetings and information management

The planning group held bi-weekly meetings in February and March supported by a Wiki maintained throughout the planning stage to ensure open and collaborative panning and communication among the planning group. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Education_Week_2013/La_Trobe_University_Open_Conference

Targeted Audience

La Trobe teaching staff
La Trobe Faculty educational designers
CTLC
La Trobe librarians
other librarians
other teaching staff
Melbourne Free University
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Australia

Communication

UniNews
Planning Group Networks
Conference Poster

Date

March 12th 2013

Venues

LIMS 205
HUED108

Sychronous communications and event records

Video and Audio streaming on the day provided through Google Hangouts
Meeting Words
Twitter hash tag #openltu

Agenda

A loose agenda was developed based on suggestions throughout the meetings, with the final agenda set on the day.

Introductions and agenda
Who's doing what
Critical ideas
Lunch and open networking
Examples of assessment
Producing OERs
Practical steps
Recommendations