Thursday, 9 March

Thursday, 9 March
	Auditorium 2	Room 1.41	Room 1.61	Room 1.63	Room 2.61	Room 2.64
8.00 - 9.00	Registrations
9.00 - 10.00	[Venue: Auditorium 2] Announcements & Keynote Panel (Open Perspectives) Chair: Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams Panelists: Patricia Arinto, Mark Horner and Carina Bossu
10.00 - 10.30	Tea/Coffee Break & Poster Presentations
10.30 - 12.30	Open for Participation	Action Lab 120 Minutes of Messy Exploration Jenni Hayman	Action Lab Change the world through OERs (we’re not kidding)! Inclusive design, accessibility, diversity, and how difference makes us stronger Jess Mitchell, Jutta Treviranus	OER and Student Experience Postgraduate students as OER capacitators Thomas King The Learning Environment of the student at an Open and Distance (e-) Learning University: the Unisa perspective Christo Du Preez The Student Experience as OER Joseph Pickett Exploring open educational practices of first year students at a South African university Tabisa Mayisela	MOOCs Panel MOOCs and Open Education in Africa Marco Kalz, Laura Czerniewicz, Lorenzo Dalvit, Bakary Diallo, Maria Garrido Making MOOCs and changing open educational practices Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji, Glover Michael “I don’t always wrap MOOCs, but when I do…”: Improving postgraduates students’ experiences of MOOCs as OERs through facilitation and face-to-face contact Shanali Govender, Tasneem Jaffer	Open Business Models Made With Creative Commons – Open Business Models Paul Stacey OER and Technology The Alicanto Cloud: A new model for open and social learning Steve Carson, Yuri Quintana Action Lab Collaborative OpenCourseWare Authoring: The SlideWiki Platform Alexander Mikroyannidis
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.00	OER Based Degree & College Panel OER-based Degree Pathways: Emerging Trends and Lessons Learned at U.S. Community Colleges Una Daly, Quill West, James Glapa-Grossklag, Richard Sebastian, Preston Davis Panel Institutionalizing Open Education Practices James Glapa-Grossklag, Barbara Illowsky, Una Daly	Research in OER OER-Integrated Teaching and Learning in a Post-War Northern Sri Lanka Sasikala Kugamoorthy, M. Rajini, Shironica Karunanayaka, Som Naidu Exploring the cultural-historical factors influencing OER adoption and use in Mongolia’s higher education sector Batbold Zagdragchaa, Henry Trotter Going Open in Afghanistan – Impact Study of an OER Library Lauryn Oates, Jamshid Hashimi, Murwarid Ziayee, Abdul Rahim Parwani	Year of Open & Open Education Week	OER in HE and Beyond Open for Business: the “Learn Accounting” Project Jacqueline Kew, Clare Holing Edging our way into open online eye health education Greg Doyle, Veronica Mitchell TelKart and QnA: An Open Teaching System for Computer Science Courses Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Geoff Gordon	MOOCs Action Lab Designing a framework for making use of MOOCs Andrew Deacon, Janet Small, Sukaina Walji	Open for Participation
15:00 - 15:30	Tea/Coffee Break & Poster Presentations
15.30 - 17.30	Openness and Distance Education Panel Impact of OER on Cost and Quality of Course Materials in Postgraduate Distance Education Courses Sheila Bonito, Joane Serrano, Charisse Reyes, Rita Ramos, Carmelita Orias	Action Lab Unleashing the Power of Online Networks through Openness Alice Zambodla, Tony Carr, Sarah Goodier, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams	Open Information The power of open information in open learning curriculum development Naomi Cloutier, Carolyn Teare, Irwin Devries Openness for visibility: The ROER4D Curation and Dissemination strategy Michelle Willmers, Thomas King OER adoption by University of Delhi, India: Student’s Readiness and Acceptance Sarita Kumar, Charu K Gupta, Savithri Singh	Action Lab Creative Commons – Hack The Cred Paul Stacey, Cable Green, Kelsey Wiens, Kamil Śliwowski	MOOCs MOOCs in the Global South – Indian Learners in Massive Open Online Courses Janesh Sanzgiri Action Lab The quality of MOOCs: Results from latest four research surveys and discussion of the Quality Reference Framework for MOOCs Christian M. Stracke, Esther Tan, Achilleas Kameas, Bill Vassiliadis, António Teixeira, Maria Do Carmo Teixeira Pinto, Cleo Sgouropoulou	OER and Technology Closing the Digital Educational Divide: Sharing OER with Libraries, Schools and Public Health Facilities in Africa and the World Jeremy Smith, David Baliles, Carl Meyer OER and Science The European Data Science Academy: Bridging the Data Science Skills Gap with Open Courseware Alexander Mikroyannidis, John Domingue, Christopher Phethean, Gareth Beeston, Elena Simperl Catalyzing Science & Engineering Capacity Building in Africa Through Open Education; Pivotal Roles For Globally-Networked International-Organizations Samson Jarso
18.00	Gala Dinner (CTICC) and Open Education Awards for Excellence Ceremony 18:00 - African Drumming Performance – This will include a group of drummers in African attire with additional djembes which guests can use to participate in the drumming on arrival. 18:45 - Starters 19:15 - Open Education Awards for Excellence 20:00 - Dinner 21:00 - Entertainment - AFRO ELITE 22:00 - Dessert 22:30 - Gala Dinner Ends