Wiley Downes Dialogue
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Join Stephen Downes and David Wiley for day of dialogue and discussion across the spectrum of open education...
Convening in Historic Courtroom 302 in the Vancouver Art Gallery, Space is limited to 40 people and will fill up quickly, so sign up now!. The discussion is being recorded and live streamed via UStream.
Topics
8:45-9:00 - Introduction
- Stephen Downes
- David Wiley
Segment 1 (9:00-10:30) - Providing, Supporting and Producing OERs
Recorded audio: http://www.downes.ca/files/audio/downeswiley1.mp3
- What are OERs and Why do we want Them? What's Our Objective Here?
- Providing Learning vs Supporting Learning
- Perspectives on OERs: Users and Producers
- OERs Created by Providers vs. Created by Community
Segment 2 (10:45-12:15) - Education, Learning and Licensing
- Education vs Learning and the 'Educational License' Debate
- 'Enclosure', or Non-License Methods to Block Access to OERs
- The NC Clause of Creative Commons Licenses
- Mixing Content, Mixing Licenses
12:15-1:30 - Lunch
- On Your Own
Segment 3 (1:30-3:00) - Institutions, Accreditation and Commercialism
- Commercial vs. Non-commercial OER Production
- Intrusion of Commercial values into the personal and non-Commercial space
- Open Education and the Long-Term Role of Institutions
- Models for Open Accreditation: Can They work?
Segment 4 (3:15-4:45) - What's Next? Why Bother?
- Rates of OER Reuse: Is All the Trouble Worth It?
- Is it Ever OK not to be Open?
- What Needs to Happen Next for/to/with Open Education?
Facilitators (by segment)
- Chris Lott
- Paul Stacey
- Jeff Miller
- Dave Cormier
Getting There
The dialogue will be held in the Historic Courtroom 301 in the Vancouver Art Gallery. See the Conference Locations page for details.
