Panel Talk OPN61
Taking Advantage of Open Education Resources
Free educational resources? Yes please! In this session, we’ll learn about the most cutting edge OERs (open educational resources) and how you can integrate them into your own lesson plans.
Leslie Kennedy
Director, Affordable Learning Solutions, California State University, USA
Leslie Kennedy, Ed.D.is the Director of Affordable Learning Solutions in the Academic Technology Services department at the California State University, Office of the Chancellor. She provides strategic planning,and project and vendor management in support of the Affordable Learning Solutions initiative and leads a number of campus and system-wide collaborations. Previously, Dr. Kennedy served for eight years as the director of instructional technology support services at CSU Long Beach. She coordinated the user community and implementations at WebCT for five years, and previous to that she was tenured at Fullerton College. Dr. Kennedy has an MA in Linguistics and a second Masters in Online Leaming and Teaching. Her doctorate is in educational leadership in higher education with a research focus on the need for faculty support when enhancing their instruction with instructional technologies. Dr. Kennedy's work background includes a unique combination of relevant vendor experience, project management of diverse academic technology projects and teams, and first-hand experience as a faculty member which enables her to provide vision and guidance to Academic Technology Services.
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http://affordablelearningsolutions.org
Till Kreutzer
Rechtsanwalt, iRights.Law, Germany
Dr. Till Kreutzer is a lawyer (attorney-at-law), legal scholar and journalist. He is co–founder and editor of iRights.info, a non-profit information portal on copyright in the digital world for consumers and creators, awarded – inter alia – with the Grimme-Online-Award 2006. He is also an entrepreneur and founder of the iRights.Lab, an independent think tank on strategies for the digital world and the law firm iRights.Law. Till is a research fellow at the Hans–Bredow–Institute for media research at the University of Hamburg and a member of the Institute for Legal Issues of Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS). Till is personal member of the German Commission for UNESCO. He teaches copyright law, trademark law, privacy law and personal rights at various institutions. He participated on several occasions as an invited expert of the German Parliament in the “Reform of Copyright in the Information Society” and at hearings in the European Parliament.
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Sotiris Makrygiannis
CEO & Founder, Eliademy, Finland
Sotiris launched one of the very first e-schools back in 1997 but failed to make a commercial success. After 12 years building Operating Systems at Nokia he moved and created Eliademy.com with a mission to democratize education with technology. He is passionate about books, travel, and technology. Father of 2 and inspired by the open source movement.
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Jules Hayward
Education Lead, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, UK
Jules Hayward leads the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Education and Training Programmes. These learning programmes include training opportunities, educational projects with schools and colleges, global online education initiatives and an extensive higher education programme. Jules manages these focus areas whilst also creating connectivity with the Foundation's other key programme areas in: Business, Insight and Analysis, Communications, and Government and Cities. She has a strong interest in how education and training can play a catalytic role in accelerating the transition to a circular economy.
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Andrew Clubb
VP, Technical Product Management, International & Professional, McGraw-Hill Education, USA
Andrew Clubb joined McGraw-Hill Education as Vice President of Technical Product Management in May 2014. Since then he has worked with digital platforms for the International & Professional divisions in numerous regions around the globe.
His passion for digital product development on an international scale has taken him to jobs based in various continents including the US and Asia, with roles ranging from technology, sales and product management. Andrew’s portfolio also includes freelancing as a Digital Publishing Consultant at Andrew Clubb Consulting Ltd and 15 years at Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.
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Moderator
Esko Lius
Expert, Digital Learning, Omnia - The Joint Authority of Education in Espoo Region, Finland
Esko Lius is known for inspiring learning projects which put emphasis on learners' own activity, transformative pedagogy, and versatile tools for authentic learning. Mobile learning and BYOx model are most often employed.
He is involved in designing strategies and systems for building up the capacities of the teaching staff, and he facilitates digital strategy processes of the management – both in Finland and in international projects, e.g. in Kosovo and Egypt.
He is curious enough to ask What if… and divergent and diligent enough to find new approaches in challenging situations. He sees that the connection between formal school learning, the world outside, and learner's own interest is paramount to generate deep learning.
Recently he has been pondering (and piloting) how open digital badges may change the paradigm in recognizing competences and learning.