Association for Learning Technology
Weekly news Digest - special OER16: Open Culture edition
Issued on 15 April 2016
*Welcome to the special OER16: Open Culture edition of the ALT Digest.*
The 7th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16: Open Culture, will be held on the 19th-20th April 2016 at the University of Edinburgh
The conference is focusing on the value of embedding open culture in the context of institutional strategies for learning, teaching and research. The conference will be chaired by Melissa Highton, Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, and Lorna Campbell, OER Liaison at the University of Edinburgh and EDINA Digital Education Manager.
Keynote speakers include Catherine Cronin, Emma Smith and John Scally on Tuesday 19th, and Jim Groom and Melissa Highton on Wednesday 20th. See the full programme, with over 100 presentations: https://oer16.oerconf.org/programme/
*Remote Participation*
If you are not attending in person there are a number of activities you can engage remotely with including live streaming of the main sessions and contributing to the #oer16 tag. To find out more visit https://oer16.oerconf.org/help/remote-participation/
Thanks are due to OER16’s sponsors, supporters and exhibitors, including Opening Educational Practices in Scotland, the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University, Kaltura, the University of Edinburgh, ALT, and the ALT Open Education Special Interest Group: https://oer16.oerconf.org/our-sponsors-and-exhibitors/
Find out more about the Open Education Special Interest Group, and other Special Interest and Members Groups: https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups
Thank you and join us again #altc
The Digest will return on Friday 22 April 2016.
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The deadline for the next issue of the Digest is 12.00 on Wednesday 20 April 2016 for the Digest to be issued on Friday 22 April 2016.
This issue was compiled by Tom Palmer.
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