Call for Proposals 

We are inviting proposals to facilitate breakout sessions focused on projects, initiatives, showcases or insights involving Open Education. Proposals should keep the conference theme in mind and directly address one or more of the suggested breakout topics/tracks. At the same time, you are encouraged to shape your proposed session to best communicate your unique experiences with and ideas about open education at the local, regional, national, and/or global level.  

Conference Theme: Open for Student Success and Closing the Gaps 

Suggested Topics/Tracks:

• Student success stories and metrics from OER implementation

• Promoting equity, inclusion and access through OER

• Opportunities for collaboration/connection across colleges/institutions/K-12

• Institutional OER initiatives: successes and lessons learned

• Engagement with students about OER and textbook costs

• Obstacles to OER adoption (and maybe how to overcome them)

• Technologies to support development and dissemination of OER

• Local, regional, national, and/or global arguments for OER

• Experiences authoring and remixing OER

• What It Means to be a "Leader" in Open

Session Formats: 

Virtual Presentation -- 25 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A

An opportunity to showcase and share a project, strategy, or idea.  

Interactive Virtual Workshop -- 60 minutes

Designed to maximize interaction and involve participants in some sort of meaningful work, whether individual or collaborative. Participants should (virtually) walk away from a workshop with something that they can use immediately in their classroom or open education initiative. 

Proposals (for either breakout sessions or workshops) with a commercial or product-centered focus will be considered, but only if the reviewers determine that it will be valuable to attendees. 

Call for Proposals Deadline: Sunday, November 17, 2024