Title: Overview of dissimination activities
Author: Willem van Valkenburg
Date: May 2014
Summary: Overview of all dissimination activities of the project
Title: Poster Open Courseware
Date: 20-22 June 2012
Event: World open educational resources congress
Over 400 delegates including representatives of Government, educators, NGOs, and universities attended the Congress which was organized in full partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and supported by a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (USA). The goals of the Congress were to:
- Release the 2012 Paris OER Declaration;
- Showcase through an Open Seminar & Exhibition the world’s best practices in OER policies and initiatives;
- Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 UNESCO Forum that coined the term Open Educational Resources (OER).
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Title: Poster Open Courseware
Date: 27/28 September 2012
Event: Open and distance learning - Cyprus
Educational models are changing increasingly. More universities are embracing open and flexible learning and as a consequence, the creation of international student markets is becoming a reality. Formal learning nowadays becomes integrated with non-/informal learning and educational innovation is now both financially, technology and socially driven. Worldwide there is an awareness of the emerging role of open education en open educational resources to support educational transformation. For example, by offering better quality education to significantly larger numbers of students.
The role of open and flexible learning is becoming more important for these new models, new markets and new media.
All of the above was the scope of EADTU’s 25th Anniversary conference under the EU-Presidency of Cyprus.
