OpenLearn 2007
Programme

The conference took place on the 30th-31st October 2007.

Links to the papers and presentations can be found on the programme below. 

Papers have also been published in our Knowledge Network along with conference proceedings and abstracts (PDF). Selected papers will be reviewed for publication in a special issue of JIME to appear shortly after the conference.

Photos of the conference can be found on Flickr. The conference blogs are available on Yahoo Pipes and through Technorati.

Optional Day: Monday 29 October

14:00- 17:00	Registration
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
15:00- 17:00	OpenLearn Demonstration	FLOSSCom: Learning the Open Source Way Can Open Source principles be applied in educational settings?	Wifi access
15:00 & 16:00	Tours of the Open University (for those that have booked) starting at 15.00 and 16.00
19:00	Dinner

Day 1: 30 October

08:30-09:30	Arrival
09:30	Introduction (Andy Lane)
09:40	Keynote speech: John Seeley Brown
10:30	Coffee
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
11:00	Chris Pegler: Choosing and reusing content: Why neither is as easy as it sounds	Andreia Santos: Framing for sustainability: identifying values within open content provision	Rosemary Luckin, John Akass, John Cook…: Learner-Generated Contexts: sustainable learning pathways through Open Content
11:00	Grainne Conole & Martin Weller: Using learning design as a framework for supporting the design and reuse of OER	Cameron Esslemont: "bridging the abyss" Open Content to Meaningful Learning	Jonathan San-Diego & Patrick McAndrew: Learning from 'OpenLearner-interactions' using Digital research techniques
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Tony Hirst: Feeding From OpenLearn - Exploring the Potential of OpenLearn RSS Feeds	Andrew Ravenscroft & Patrick McAndrew: Boot Camp to holiday camp	Maaike Hendriks, Paul A. Kirschner, Robert Schuwer & John van der Baaren: Impact of Open Educational Resources in The Netherlands
14:15	Andrew Brasher: A conversion pipeline for audio remixes	Candice Thille & Joel Smith: Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the effectiveness of OLI statistics course in accelerating learning	Patrick Kelly, Linda Margaret Green & Joanne Beard: The whole is more than the sum of the parts: Pathways and programmes for Open Learners in Psychology
15:00	Tea
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
15:30	Alan Cann: Embracing Web2.0: Online Video - Beyond Entertainment	Peter Bateman: Devising a Participatory Open Educational Resources Architecture for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa - a Typological Approach	Tina Wilson & Patrick McAndrew: From Africa through Germany to the UK and back again: the potential of Open Educational resources
16:15- 17:45	Research Panel Toru Iiyoshi, M. S. Vijay Kumar, Andy Lane, Diana Laurillard & Stuart Lee: Opening Up Education: Removing Barriers, Fostering Participation, and Promoting Sustainability
18:30	Drinks Reception
19:00	Conference Dinner

 

Day 2: 31 October

08:30-09:00	Arrival
09:00	Trick or Treat?: Hewlett Foundation's Next Steps in the OER Grab bag - Dr. Cathy Casserly
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
09:30	Alexandra Okada & Simon Buckingham Shum: KNOWLEDGE MAPPING WITH COMPENDIUM for Open Learning and Open Sense Making Communities	Ray Corrigan: Is there such a thing as sustainable infodiversity?	Tina Wilson, Giselle Ferreira, Rose Webb & Teresa Connolly: Creating Open Educational Resources: a hands-on workshop
10:00	Alexandra Okada & Simon Buckingham Shum: KNOWLEDGE MAPPING WITH COMPENDIUM for Open Learning and Open Sense Making Communities	Niall Winters & Yishay Mor: Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language
10:30	Coffee
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
11:00	Alex Little, Marc Eisenstadt & Chris Denham: MSG Instant Messenger: Social Presence and Location for the "Ad Hoc Learning Experience	Freda Wolfenden & Bob Moon: The TESSA OER Experience: Building sustainable models of production and user implementation	Peter Bateman on behalf of Susan D'Antoni: An OER Research Agenda: Reflections of an international Community of Interest
11:45	Elia Tomadaki & Peter Scott Video conferencing in open learning	Richard Heller & Perihan Torun: Embedding open content in education - Peoples-uni.org	Cormac Lawler: Learning about learning in Wikiversity through action research
12:30	Lunch
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
13:30	Christopher Douce: Creating accessible SCORM content from OpenLearn material	Tina Wilson, Teresa Connolly, Rose Webb & Giselle Ferreira: Re-purposing for an open education repository: quantity, quality and processes	Maaike Hendriks, Paul A. Kirschner, Robert Schuwer & John van der Baaren: Finding your way to an open online learning community
14:15	Erik Duval, Bram Vandeputte, Katrien Verbert …: Open Metadata for Open Educational Resources in an Open Infrastructure	Lisa Petrides & Cynthia Jimes: A case study framework for open content projects: Free High School Science Texts and the case for continuous learning	Jenny Lynden & Robert Catt: Open Education and the Sussex Learning Network: a partnership perspective
15:00	Tea
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
15:30	Giovanni Fulantelli: The Open Learning Object model for the effective reuse of digital educational resources	Seb Schmoller, Nicky Ferguson, Neil Jacobs & David Kernohan: Sharing eLearning Content: what are the main challenges?	Andy Lane: How long will it take me? Assessing appropriate study times for open educational resources
16:15- 17:30	Discussants Panel: The future of open content. Josie Taylor, Tammy Sumner, John Dehlin, Erik Duval