Keynote Speakers

	Xavier Prats Monné Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission Between EDEN and Earth: Technology and the Modernisation of EU Higher Education (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of the speech
	Jim Groom Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington, USA The Uneducation of a Technologist: From EDUPUNK to ds106 (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of the speech: Pre-conference interview with Jim Groom: : Think Together, Enable Dialogue and Get Feedback: From EDUPUNK to DS106 Steve Wheeler’s interview

Belinda Tynan Pro-Vice Chancellor, The Open University, UK	Marci Powell Chair Emerita and Past President, USDLA, USA	Darcy Hardy Associate Vice President, Enterprise Consulting, Blackboard, USA
Pre-conference interview: Openness in the Context of Sustainability Airina Volungeviciene’s interview	Pre-conference interview: Collaboration Is Key: The power of togetherness Lisa-Marie Blaschke’s phone interview
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	Martin Weller Professor of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK The Battle for Open (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of the speech: Pre-Conference interview: The Battle for Openness Steve Wheeler’s interview
	Albert Sangra UNESCO Chair, Faculty Member, eLearn Center at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Expanding Learning Opportunities for the Last 25 Years… and Beyond (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of the speech: Pre-conference interview: Losing Control: The true democratisation of learning Ebba Ossiannilsson’s interview
	Maarten de Laat Full Professor of Professional Development in Social Networks, Welten Institute, Faculty of Psychology & Education, The Open University of the Netherlands Networked Learning in Open Practices (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of the speech: Pre-conference interview: Understanding the Context Antonella Poce’s interview
	Alan Tait Director, International Development and Teacher Education, The Open University, United Kingdom From Distance Learning to Open Education: A Changing Landscape (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of the keynte speech:
	Audrey Watters Journalist Specializing in Education Technology News and Analysis, Hack Education, USA Learning Networks, Not Teaching Machines (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of keynote speech:
	Stavros Panagiotis Xanthopoylos Vice-President, Brazilian Association for Distance Education – ABED, Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), Brazil The New Role of Open and Distance Education: An insight from the emerging educational and corporate scenarios in the newly industrialised world (PPT Presentation) Click here for the Video Broadcast of the keynote speech:

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