OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES GRANTEE MEETING AGENDA
March 12-13, 2008

The OER Grantee meeting will be hosted by Carnegie Mellon and held in conjunction with the Open Learning Interplay Symposium 2008. We urge all grantees and meeting invitees to participate in the symposium from March 10 to March 12. The OER Grantee meeting will start at noon on March 12 and build on our collective knowledge gained during the Opening Learning Symposium. The OER Grantee meeting will end at noon on March 13.

There will be wireless internet connection in the meeting room.

Meeting Goals:

• Deepen participants understanding of how knowledge gained from the learning sciences can be integrated into the design of OER projects to move beyond access to impact. How can we collectively move the field forward to transform teaching and learning?
• Deepen participants understanding of how we move from a supply push model of OER to a demand pull model. How do we enable fluid reuse of OER to create a seamless experience for the user?
• Enable synergies among persons and projects in the OER community.
  

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2008

• PM
• Meeting LOCATION: Rangos Hall

• NOON
• LUNCH

• 1:00
• Welcome & Introductions
  Catherine M. Casserly, Director
  Open Educational Resources Initiative,
  The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  
  Joel Smith, Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer, Carnegie Mellon University
•  

• 1:20
• KEYNOTE:
  Reinventing Education for the 21st Century
  Raj Reddy, Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  INTRODUCTION
  Candace Thille, Director, Open Learning Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  OPEN DISCUSSION
•  

• 2:30
• Interactive Session:
  The Application of Learning Sciences
  and OER Design
  Susan Ambrose, Associate Provost for Education, Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University
•  

• 3:45
• Break
•  

• 4:00
• The Hewlett Foundation’s Strategic Approach to Knowledge Development and Dissemination
  Paul Brest, President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
   
  Hewlett OER Phase 2:
  Transforming Teaching and Learning
  Catherine M. Casserly, Director, Open Educational Resources Initiative, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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• 5:00
• Adjourn
•  

• 5:30
• Buses Leave for Dinner at Rivers Club Restaurant
• FROM Carnegie Mellon

• 6:00
• Reception, Dinner and Talk
  
  Sir John Daniel, President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning
• Rivers Club Restaurant
  One Oxford Centre
  301 Grant Street
  Pittsburgh, PA 15219
  Phone: 412-391-5227

THURSDAY, March 13, 2008

• AM
• Meeting LOCATION: Hamburg Hall

• 8:00
• Continental Breakfast
•  

• 8:30
• So You Think You Understand Your Users?
  An Interactive Workshop to Explore Strategies for and Pitfalls of User-Centered Design
  Dr. Patrick Whitney, Director and Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor,
  Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design
  
  Session Chair: Phoenix Wang, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
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• 10:00
• Search Engines and More:
  The Many Ways of Getting Traffic to Your Educational Site
  Robbin Steif, CEO of LunaMetrics
  
  Session Chair: Vic Vuchic, Associate Program Officer, Open Educational Resources Initiative, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
•  

• 10:45
• Break
•  

• 11:15
• Moving OER Forward
  Catherine M. Casserly, Director, Open Educational Resources Initiative, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
•  

• PM

• NOON
• Adjourn and Lunch
•  

Open Educational Resources

Daily life, not markets: customer-centered design

By Vijay Kumar, Associate Professor and Patrick Whitney, Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor and Director, both at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Culture Shock

Product developers who expect customers to follow traditional cultural patterns are in for a surprise. By Patrick Whitney.

A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities

(by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, February 2007).

This report examines The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s past investments in Open Educational Resources, the emerging impact and explores future opportunities. Central to the report is the idea of “The Brewing Perfect Storm” and the creation of an Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure.

Open Educational Practices and Resources. OLCOS Roadmap 2012

(by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, May 2007).

The report is based on own research work, expert workshops and other consultations with many international projects that promote the creation, sharing and re-use of Open Educational Resources (OER).

Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources

Open eLearning Content Observatory Services, September 2007).

The report offers a comprehensive overview of the rapidly changing phenomenon of Open Educational Resources and the challenges it poses for higher education. It examines reasons for individuals and institutions to share resources for free, and looks at copyright issues, sustainability and business models as well as policy implications. It will be of particular interest to those involved in e-learning or strategic decision making within higher education, to researchers and to students of new technologies.

Educational Technology (pdf)

November-December 2007

The theme of this special issue of Educational Technology magazine is the active phrase: Opening Educational Resources. Our authors describe what has been done and is being done as this educational phenomenon has emerged in the 21st century.