Open Education Conference

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Upcoming Open Source & Health IT Conferences – November/December 2013

The following are some upcoming Open Source & Health IT Conferences our readers at Open Health News (OHN) might be interested in attending in the coming months.

•  EHI live 2013
•  10th Annual Open Education Conference
•  AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium
•  mHealth Summit 2013  Read More »

“Access alone is not enough” Josh Jarrett, Deputy Director of Postsecondary Success at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Ruth Suehle | OpenSource.com | October 26, 2011

Josh Jarrett, Deputy Director of Postsecondary Success at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered today's keynote at the Open Education Conference with a simple message (but no simple answer): Access alone is not enough to help people realize their dreams. Read More »

10th Annual Open Education Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 6, 2013 (All day) - November 8, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
The Canyons Resort Park City, UT
United States

For over a decade the focus of the open education community has been on creating and sharing open educational resources. We have largely succeeded in building out a vast, high quality open content infrastructure atop which a new generation of educational innovations are being built. As we celebrate the success of that work, the 10th annual Open Education 2013 Conference looks forward to the critical work of the next decade.

This year’s conference themes include:

  • Developing and deploying models that support the broad adoption and use of open educational resources
  • Leveraging the open content infrastructure to enable and reinvigorate efforts like prior learning assessment, alternative pathways to credentials, and informal and lifelong learning...

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