Welcome
Assistant Deputy Minister Peter Leclaire of Advanced Learning and Community Partnerships, Ministry of Innovation and Advanced Education
Axel Meisen, Former Director of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Panel
Chair: Rory McGreal UNESCO/COL/ICDE Chair in OER
Gilbert Paquette Téléuniversité du Québec
Mary Burgess, BCcampus
Janet Welch, Univ. of Alberta
Open Education leaders from across Canada will highlight developments in their regions. This includes the recent Western Canadian Memorandum of Understanding on OER, the BC open textbook project, the Alberta OER initiative and French language REL (Resources éducatives libres) developments in Quebec. There will be a brief Q&A period after the talks.