OpenEDU4ALL organized by ICORE and MOOQ have launched the Open Call for Papers: “We welcome and encourage all researchers and practitioners to submit their papers for the OpenEDU4ALL Workshop until 20th of June 2017“, underlines Christian M. Stracke, OpenEDU4ALL organizer and ICDE Chair in OER from the Open University of the Netherlands. ICORE and MOOQ are joining forces again and inviting to the OpenEDU4ALL Workshop 2017. It is an interactive workshop on “Open Education for All” continuing the successful workshop from last year: OpenEDU4ALL 2017 will take place at the European Conference EC-TEL on Wednesday, 13th of September 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia.
The Open Call and all submission details are available here: www.mooc-quality.eu/
All submitted papers will go through a double-blind peer review and selected papers will be presented in the OpenEDU4ALL Workshop and published in the OpenEDU4ALL proceedings as special issue of CEUR series with gold Open Access, ISBN, unique identifier and indexing.
The interactive OpenEDU4ALL Workshop 2017 is dedicated for sharing and discussing the latest research as well as practical needs and future of Open Education and how to improve it with openness for all. Thus, it is designed in two sessions: One on “Scientific research and policies for Open Education” and one on “Practical needs and future of Open Education”.
The first session “Scientific research and policies for Open Education” will combine short introductory input speeches from ICORE, UNESCO IITE, OEC and CC as leading organizations supporting OpenEDU4ALL 2017 followed by the presentation of the selected scientific papers. Main goal of the first session is the development of a declaration on Open Education for All that will be elaborated in working groups based on the presentations as well as the results from an online survey for all participants of OpenEDU4ALL.
The second session “Practical needs and future of Open Education” will focus quality dimensions and indicators required for Open Education for All. OpenEDU4ALL participants will elaborate them in the format of an interactive World Café and with the involvement of input from a live twitter stream.
Registration for OpenEDU4ALL 2017 is mandatory as seats are limited: It is free and open for all EC-TEL 2017 conference participants and interested experts and practitioners. All details about the registration and the Open Call for Papers can be found on the OpenEDU4ALL 2017 website: www.mooc-quality.eu/
The vision and overall objective of OpenEDU4ALL is the launch of a global joint initiative to facilitate and improve Open Education. An important milestone would be the re-establishment of openness as default as in the 60ies years of the 20th century: Supported by UNESCO IITE, OEC and other organizations from Open Education, ICORE, the International Community for Open Research and Education (www.ICORE-online.org) and MOOQ, the European initiative for the quality of MOOCs and Open Education (www.mooc-quality.eu) are inviting all interested citizens and organizations worldwide sharing this vision to join forces.
As a further step, ICORE and MOOQ are joining forces organizing a joint interactive Workshop at EC-TEL 2017 to continue the first ICORE and MOOQ Workshops at ICDE Global Conference 2015 in South Africa, OE Global 2016 in Poland, EC-TEL 2016 in Lyon and OE Global 2017 in Cape Town.
OpenEDU4ALL 2017 is co-organized by Christian M. Stracke and Esther Tan from the Open University of the Netherlands, Alexander Khoroshilov (UNESCO IITE), Stavros Panagiotis Xanthopoylos (OEC, tbc) and Cable Green (CC, tbc) supported by an international Programme Committee.
Important dates:
17th of May 2017: Call for Papers is open
20th of June 2017: Deadline for paper submissions
15th of July 2017: Notification of paper acceptance
30th of July 2017: Deadline for EC-TEL early bird registration
31st of Aug. 2017: Deadline for OpenEDU4ALL registration
13th of Sept. 2017: OpenEDU4ALL Workshop 2017
OpenEDU4ALL 2017 website:
www.mooc-quality.eu/
For background and history of OpenEDU4ALL 2016:
http://mooc-quality.eu/mooq-