OKFestival 2012

“OKFestival 2012 features a comprehensive week-long programme of lectures, workshops, hackathons, satellite events, meetings, film screenings and participatory sessions organised around 13 Topic Streams built by international teams of Guest Programme Planners with the help of the OKFestival Organising Team.”  More information about the festival can be found at <http://okfestival.org/about/>.  An overview of Topic Stream 07 reads as follows: “Openness is very much in action in the generation and dispersal of knowledge. The Open Research and Education stream will offer talks, debates and hands-on workshops geared particularly towards educational specialists, researchers and scientists.  The Open Data research session will focus on the impact of Open Data research within the academic environment. The session will bring together the latest research concerning Open Data and Open Government Data, forming a interdisciplinary mix of short presentations followed by a discussion panel.

In the Open Education sessions, participants will explore open education in a series of innovative workshops using pecha kucha and fishbowl techniques. A collaborative team from P2PU, the School of Open and the School of Data will discuss peer-learning and education beyond institutional walls, giving you the chance to create your own open course. Another swarm of people will present Peeragogy as a way of looking at current learning trends. All open education sessions happen on Thursday.  The Open Research programme will cover a range of topics, with sessions on everything from drugs to museums! Throughout, there focus is on how to deliver open access to data and publications, and how to form scientific communities that share and collaborate on accumulated knowledge. The emphasis is on doing as well as talking, and discussion and seminars will be interspersed with writing sprints and review sessions. The bulk of the programme will take place on Wednesday, with sessions taking place on the Thursday as well.  On Tuesday, the Open Science group will also be holding a satellite hackday, to work together on projects, technologies and tools around open science.”