Open Educational Resources conference

Wikimedia UK education projects

Annual Conference — Campus Ambassadors – Student Societies — Schools — Committee — VLE

Wikimedia UK volunteers have a recurring presence at the annual Open Educational Resources conference.

The conference is not just focused on resources, but on open educational practices and their pedagogical, legal, and cultural significance. It also discusses overlapping topics such as open access to research. The conference is a focus for the free-and-open education movement in the UK, attended by academics, managers, learning technologists, project holders, staff developers, software developers, and others from across the education sectors.

2014

Martin Poulter and Simon Knight are attending to each run a session and to run a stall. This is made possible by financial support from Wikimedia UK as part of its education outreach. The conference is hosted by the University of Newcastle.

2013

Martin Poulter attended OER '13 in the University of Nottingham. He gave a presentation titled "The Wikipedia Education Program: open educational practice on a global scale", ran a stall and distributed education brochures. This was made possible by financial support from Wikimedia UK as part of its education outreach. Other Wikipedians were at the conference, including the UK-based academic Phil Wane who gave two posters.

The event was written up on the Wikimedia UK blog. The Wikipedia Education Program session was blogged about by Therese Bird of the University of Leicester and video is available through the University of Nottingham.

2011

Martin Poulter attended OER11 in Manchester to give a presentation titled "Wikipedia and Higher Education: beat them or join them?"