{"id":5,"date":"2016-06-06T18:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T18:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2017-01-13T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:08:06","slug":"about-oe-global-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/about-oe-global-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"About OE Global 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are very pleased to welcome you to the beautiful and sunny city of Cape Town, South Africa, from 8-10 March, 2017. The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss, plan, reflect, collaborate, innovate and celebrate openness in education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re particularly excited to have Cape Town as the venue in 2017 conference, since it marks the 10 year anniversary of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetowndeclaration.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cape Town Open Education Declaration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2017 actually marks several important milestones in Open Education, including the 15 year anniversary of the term \u201cOpen Educational Resources\u201d and the 5 year anniversary of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/communication-and-information\/access-to-knowledge\/open-educational-resources\/what-is-the-paris-oer-declaration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paris OER Declaration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For those who remember the start of the movement, we\u2019ll have the opportunity to celebrate and reflect on these and other achievements, reconnect with colleagues and friends, and learn about new ideas and initiatives. New to the Open Education Global Conference? A special welcome to you, and an invitation to join us to hear about what\u2019s going on around the world, share your experiences and ideas, meet some really dynamic people, and help us realize the open future of education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Open Education Awards for Excellence will be presented during the conference. These awards recognize distinctive open education projects, technological innovations, notable open courses, and exemplary leaders in Open Education worldwide.\u00a0 Learn more about the awards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeconsortium.org\/projects\/open-education-awards-for-excellence\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference will take place at the <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/venue\/\">Cape Town International Convention Center<\/a>, near the picturesque Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. In anticipation of the conference, we invite you to browse the site, peruse the Cape Town visitor information and check out the archives of past conferences. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"mailto:conference@oeconsortium.org\">conference@oeconsortium.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See you in Cape Town!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to welcome you to the beautiful and sunny city of Cape Town, South Africa, from 8-10 March, 2017. The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss, plan, reflect, collaborate, innovate and celebrate openness in education. We\u2019re particularly excited to have Cape Town as the venue in 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.oeconsortium.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}