Open Education Resources Free Seminar

The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project of

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Faculty of Law

&

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi)

Invites you to a

Free Seminar with Leading International and National Experts

What is “Open Education” and what does it mean for the future of learning?

What role can Australia play?

Tuesday September 23rd – 2pm-5pm

OJW ROOM - S Block Level 12

QUT Gardens Points Campus

Lessons from the open access movement are now being applied to open education.Building upon the Budapest Open access Initiative, which first defined open access in 2002, educators, internet pioneers, and foundations launched the Cape Town Open Education Declaration in January 2008. The declaration calls for publicly funded educational materials to be made freely available over the internet, the use of open content licenses, and the collaborative production of materials.

- Melissa Hagemann, Open Scholarship
Convenor: Professor Brian Fitzgerald, QUT/OAK LAW/CCi
Special Guest: Melissa Hagemann, Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network
Discussion Leaders (include): John Wilbanks, Science Commons
Delia Browne, Ministerial Council for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) A/Professor Cushla Kapitzke, Faculty of Education (QUT)
Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology OAK LAW Professor James Dalziel, MELCOE Macquarie University
Carolina Rossini, Berkman Centre Harvard Law School Jessica Coates, Creative Commons Clinic (CCi) 
                           To be followed by the Open Access and Research (OAR) Conference see: 
                                http://www.oar2008.qut.edu.au      www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au 
                           RSVP: Annie Connell on 07 3138 9576 or at annie.connell@qut.edu.au

See the biographies of the convenor, special guest and discussion leaders