The annual H818 Online Conference was part of the activities of module H818 ‘The Networked Practitioner’, one of the modules making up The Open University’s Masters in Online and Distance Education (MAODE). This has now been replaced by the Masters in Online Teaching (MAOT) which has its own annual H890 Online Conference. As a consequence this site is an archive and is no longer maintained.

Every February a conference took place using The Open University’s Online Rooms, usually over three days, in which all students studying the H818 module delivered a short presentation about their module-related project work, and responded to questions from the audience. The presentations related to the main conference theme ‘Open Education in an Open Landscape’ and one of the subthemes: Inclusion, Innovation or Implementation. Each day of the conference also featured an invited keynote presentation from an expert in the field.

Conference attendance was open to all current and former MAODE students to attend, along with staff from the MAODE’s home department at The Open University, namely the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS).