Call for proposals now open for the Northeast Regional OER Summit 2018 | May 31-June 1, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Thursday & Friday , May 31 & June 1, UMASS Amherst, DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018

The Northeast Regional OER Conference Committee, along with Lumen Learning, invite you to share your ground-breaking ideas, research and best practices in Open Education Resources. For more information about this event, visit the Northeast OER Summit website .

Submit a conference presentation proposal and plan to join your colleagues for this conference on 5/31 & 6/1, 2018 at UMASS Amherst in Amherst, MA.

All presenters will be expected to register and pay for their attendance to this low-cost event. Details of registration, including costs will be available mid-March.

We invite proposals with a focus on the following areas: 

• Understanding OER (includes introduction to OER, open licensing, shared examples of OER, and discussion of OER adoption models)
• Teaching and Learning with Free and Open Educational Resources (includes ways to find and use free, CC licensed and public domain content, and incorporating open pedagogy)
• The Value of Open (includes benefits of OER and open pedagogy, examples of OER initiatives, research on OER, and data on the impact of OER)
• Implementing and Scaling OER Initiatives (includes collaboration, starting your initiative, policy, strategies, structure and process, and communicating about OER)..."