#OER19 preview webinar
Channel: ALT
Date: 22/03/2019

The OER19 Conference is takes place at the National University of Ireland in Galway, 10-11 April 2019. It focuses on the following themes:

Back to basics – asking difficult questions about open education:
- Why open?
- Open for whom?
- Whose interests are served?
- In what ways has the open agenda been appropriated, and what are the implications of this?
- The geopolitics of open education, bringing open in from the periphery
- The open ecosystem: How is open education part of the broader ecosystem of “opens”?
- What does it mean to illuminate open by considering context?
- How can historical perspectives contribute to understanding the issues faced in the open education movement today?
- Links between critical digital literacies, critical data literacies, and openness
- What open business models are emerging? What are the paths to sustainability?
- What are the risks and challenges to the open education agenda?

The ALT Open Education Special Interest Group (#OESIG) hosts this preview webinar with the Conference co-chairs Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, who are joined by the keynote panel Caroline Kuhn, Taskeen Adam, and Judith Pete.