“lightning” by duane.schoon is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The CC Open Education Platform is hosting a series of open education “lightning talks” in which open education practitioners will discuss their work (7 minutes) and take questions (2 minutes) in a supportive space. Everyone is welcome. Join us!

In this first round of talks, 25 members of the CC Open Education Platform will present their work over three sessions.

Tuesday, 8 December: 8:00am – 9:30am (PST – Los Angeles time)

• Sue Jones: Cognitively Accessible Math OER
• David Wiley: Sustaining and Improving OER
• Chris Morrison & Jane Secker: How openness helped us address the challenge of copyright and online teaching at a time of crisis
• Nathan Smith: Starting a local consortium to increase collaboration around OER
• Yasin Dahi: Learnful: An open platform for OER authoring and collaboration in Canada
• Christer Gundersen: Crowdsourcing translation of early grade reading resources at scale
• TJ Bliss: Open Education in Idaho Higher Education
• Grif Peterson: Increasing equity with OER through learning circles

Friday, 11 December: 7:30am – 9:00am (PST – Los Angeles time)

• Judith Sebesta: Texas Learn OER
• André Rocha: Fabschools
• Suma Parahakaran: Educating for Human Values and Ethics in Schools
• Yogesh K S: Wikimedia and MediaWiki in Open Education
• Stephen Downes: A Personal Learning Platform
• Hugh McGuire: Where can I find Pressbooks books? Why, the Pressbooks Directory
• Omshivaprakash: Digital archiving to build OER for local languages
• Nate Angell: Open Learning Experience Bingo

Thursday, 17 December: 8:00am – 9:30am (PST – Los Angeles time)

• Roxanne Russell: Part you, part text, part machine, all learning
• Fernando Daguanno: OER are not always textbooks
• Meri McCoy-Thompson: We Are Resilient
• Werner Westermann: Offline OER to mitigate learning loss
• Sarah Hutton: Open from the Start: Strategies for Integrating OER and Open Pedagogical Practice Into First-Year and General Programs at UMass Amherst
• Lance Eaton: The Public Dollar: Finding & Flipping the Value of the Commons
• Rajeeb Dutta: Hello Santali
• Dan McGuire: Geogebra + Illustrative Mathematics + your LMS = Great Teaching and Learning