Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide.
OpenMed project will celebrate Open Education Week with the following scheduled events including webinars, guest speakers, and online conversations:
- Monday, March 7th
Webinar: Open licensing and challenges to adopt OER across the Mediterranean countries
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm GMT
Daniel Burgos, Vice-chancellor for Research & Technology, UNIR – Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain
The webinar will run in Adobe Connect, and can be accessed using the following link: http://unir.adobeconnect.com/unirresearch2 - Tuesday, March 8th
Panel: Opportunities for the promotion of OER in the Arab World
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm GMT
Sana Harbi, UNESCO OER Chair at Université de Sousse, Tunisia and Gemma Tombs, Coventry University, UK
The panel will run in Blab, and can be accessed using the following link:
https://blab.im/gemma-tombs-opportunities-for-the-promotion-of-oer-in-the-arab-world - Wednesday, March 9th
Webinar: A low cost Open Education initiative to face massification of higher education in francophone African countries
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm GMT
Khalid Berrada, Advisor to the President in charge of pedagogical innovation, responsible of Uc@Mooc project, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
Online: coming soon - Thursday, March 10th
Webinar: Discover Palestine MOOC
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm GMT
Saida Affouneh, Director of elearning centre, ANNU, An-Najah National University, Palestine
The webinar will run in Google Hangouts, and will be streamed at the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHE4AHIDh8
Full details as well as links to the webinars can be found at http://openmedproject.eu/2016/02/10/oew-16/
The program in pdf format can be downloaded from here.