Call for Papers Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning http://cosl.usu.edu at Utah State University
Conference dates are September 26-29, 2006
Submission deadline is April 30, 2006
URL: http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/opened2006
Conference dates are September 26-29, 2006
Submission deadline is April 30, 2006
The field of open education is gaining momentum around the world. Literally
hundreds of open education projects are springing up from Tokyo to Boston to
Paris to Beijing. Over 2000 courses are now available through OpenCourseWare
projects alone. Add to this the growing number of open access learning
object repositories, increases in the number and quality of open source
educational software projects, the open education work agencies like UNESCO
and the OECD are doing, and the field is diversifying as quickly as it is
growing.
Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content is a multidisciplinary
event designed to promote the discussion of the variety of research,
development, and other activities necessary to move the field of open
education forward.
Prepare a short description (50 words or less) and an abstract (500 words)
describing your topic, project, and/or research related to one or more of
the conference themes.
Conference Themes:
- Social, Cultural, and Technical Aspects of Open Educational Resources
- Social, Cultural, and Technical Aspects of Tools and Software Supporting Open Education
- Social, Cultural, and Technical Aspects of Reusing and Remixing
Acceptance announcements will be made by June 30, 2006. If accepted, we
strongly encourage you to submit the full paper for publication in the
conference proceedings. Full papers are due no later than August 15, 2006.
*All* submissions (short description, abstract and full papers) and
presentations must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).
For more info please see the conference website (
http://cosl.usu.edu/conferences/2006/) or email
conference@cosl.usu.edu
Acceptance decisions will be made based on the following criteria:
A submission is RELEVANT when
- it directly address one or more of the conference themes
A submission is SIGNIFICANT when
- it raises and discusses issues important to improving the effectiveness and/or sustainability of open education efforts, and
- its contents can be broadly disseminated and understood
A submission is ORIGINAL when
- it addresses a new problem or one that hasn't been studied in depth,
- it has a novel combination of existing research results which promise new insights, and / or
- it provides a perspective on problems different from those explored before
A submission is of HIGH QUALITY when
- existing literature is drawn upon, and / or
- claims are supported by sufficient data, and / or
- an appropriate methodology is selected and properly implemented, and / or
- limitations are described honestly
A submission is CLEARLY WRITTEN when
- it is organized effectively, and / or
- the English is clear and unambiguous, and / or
- it follows standard conventions of punctuation, mechanics, and citation, and / or
- the readability is good
