Champions Melissa Highton Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services; Assistant Principal Online Learning University of Edinburgh UK “OER fits with universities’ missions as civic institutions by extending access to education” Prof. Robert SchuwerProfessor in Open Educational Resources Fontys University of Applied Sciences, School of ICT The Netherlands “Open Education needs to talk to the passion of teaching” Antonio Martinez-ArboledaTeaching Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education University of Leeds UK “Librarians are crucial to realizing Open Education as they are in charge of organizing knowledge” Dr Chrissi NerantziReader in Academic CPD Manchester Metropolitan University, UK UK “Through sharing, we can connect with other people and diverse ideas, as a collective and as a society” Catherine CroninStrategic Education Developer National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education Ireland “How can we do better? How can we meet the needs particularly of those who are marginalized?” Costas PapadopoulosAssistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studies Maastricht University The Netherlands “As educators we need to share our teaching material to as wide an audience as possible” Prof. Ebba OssiannilssonChair ICDE OER Advocacy Committee and Vice President Swedish Association for Distance Education ICDE OER Advocacy Committee Sweden “We need to see Open Education in the wider ecosystem of openness” Kamil ŚliwowskiBlogger and trainer Otwartezasoby.pl blog / Sektor 3.0 Poland “We have to think about how copyright can really serve teachers and learners” Giulia Boggialistudent Politecnico di Milano Italy “My dream would be to have a centralized OER repository for students like GitHub” Prof. Ana Moura SantosAssistant Professor in Dept. of Mathematics, MOOC Técnico Coordinator University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico Portugal “My strategy is to keep things open, however, I cannot do that every time” Prof. Marcelo Fabián MainaProfessor of Dutch and Academic Communication Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Spain “The OER approach opens new ways of creating courses” Prof. Marc van OostendorpProfessor of Dutch and Academic Communication Radboud University The Netherlands “Open Education does not threaten the teacher’s job, it makes it easier in many ways” Jacques DangSecretary of the Board of Directors L'Université Numérique, Paris, France L'Université Numérique France “Extend the reach of higher education beyond the walls of universities”
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