Webinars are a great way for a global community to get together and we hope to have some Open Education Working Group Webinars and online meetings in the near future. If you have ideas for areas we should explore then let us know.

In the meantime hear are some of the upcoming webinars covering various aspects of open education – maybe we’ll bump in to you there!

Community College Consortium for OERs (October – December 2013)

Topics:

• Finding, Adopting, and Sustaining Open Textbook Projects
• Fostering Open Policies on Campus and Statewide
• California Community Colleges Share It Forward with CC-BY

OER Research Hub Webinars (October 2013 – January 2014)

Topics:

• Are OER complementary or competitive with formal education? Some recent research findings
• Policies – The Cause or Effect of Open Education?
• Are OER the answer? Possibilities and challenges for OER use in the Indian education system
• OER in a flipped classroom

Open Professionals Network (October 2013)

Topics:

• An Overview of Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources for Faculty

OpenCourseware Consortium (November 2013)

Topics:

• Open Education and Policy

EdTechTeacher (October 2013)

Topics:

• Connecting & Collaborating in Elementary
• Creating a Connected Classroom
• Digital Citizenship in the Connected Classroom
• Connected Classroom
• Connected Administrators

Education Week (October 2013)

Topics:

• Flipped Learning for Students and Teachers

Jisc (October 2013)

Topics:

• Learning to Learn Online mini course
• What is a wikimedian? Tales from the NLS Wikimedian in Residence