It's Open: Moving Forward Open Education, Open Pedagory & Open Practice 

Open Education is not a revolutionary idea. “It’s an evolution and return to the core values of the academy - sharing knowledge freely for the benefit of society.” (Mackintosh, 2017).
eCampusOntario has embarked on a path to openness for Ontario higher education, offering a library of free and open instructional resources that will support an access and affordability scenario for learners, and an empowerment strategy for instructors. David Porter will describe the research and development path that eCampusOntario is currently pursuing on behalf of member institutions, and how you can benefit from the work.

Keynote Speaker: David Porter

Dr. David Porter is the CEO of eCampusOntario, the primary face of the Ontario Online Learning Consortium (OOLC), a not-for-profit corporation whose membership is composed of all publicly funded colleges and universities in Ontario.
David is a long-time advocate for the benefits of adapting new technology to deliver educational opportunities, and has been involved in open and distance learning since the 1990s, at both the K-12 and higher education levels.
David was formerly Associate VP Educational Support and Innovation at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. For 11 years, David was the Executive Director of BCcampus. During his term at BCcampus, David and his team engineered Canada’s first government funded open textbook program, a leading-edge development in higher education in 2012.
David has also worked as a project leader and consultant for international open and distance learning projects, most recently in Mongolia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. He is a co-editor of the International Journal of eLearning and Distance Education (IJEDE.ca), an open access journal.

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*REGISTRATION CLOSES ON Sunday, MARCH 18, 2018.