Open Education Handbook/Open Education - Conferences and Events

There are several points in the calendar where awareness of openness in education is raised. These include: Open Education Week (March) Open Access Week (October) Open Data Day (February) Education Freedom Day (January) There are also many conferences dedicated to open education which take place all around the world. Open Education Conferences Europe Online Educa – Annual global elearning conference held in Berlin. OER14 conference – Annual conference held in the UK, focused on OER. Mozilla Festival – Annual event usually held in London, lots of teaching and learning activities related to web. OKFest – The Open Knowledge Foundation Festival – this year open education is likely to an important area. Wikimania - Annual conference centered on Wikimedia projects with tracks dedicated to education, free culture, open data, and more. Cetis Conference - Annual Conference from Cetis, UK centre that specialises in technology innovation and interoperability standards in learning, education and training. OPPI - Helsinki Learning Festival: Held in Helsinki, first year in 2014. Focuses on new learning practices. USA OpenEd conference – Annual conference held in US, currently the biggest Open education conference in the world. OCWC Conference – Held in the US and organised by the Open Courseware Consortium. Connections - US conference that brings together leading policy, academic and technology experts to discuss the future of open education resources (OER) as well as the technologies that are making this future a possibility. Non-Western Inaugural International Conference on Open and Flexible Learning (ICOFE) – Annual event held last year in Hong Kong. International Conference of the African Virtual University – This year was the first year this conference ran, held in Kenya. Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning – Bi-annual event organised by the Commonwealth of Learning, held in Africa. Asia Regional OpenCourseWare And Open Education Conference - Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and organised by University of Malaya. EELU ICEL 2014 - EELU International conference on e-learning - Held in Egypt. OER Asia - Open Educational Resource Community in Asia Symposium - Held in WOU in Penang, now in its 2nd year.