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Tuesday, May 1 (Pre-Conference)
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2:00 - 6:00 pm
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Conference planning team meeting: Hotel Chiqui lobby.
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| 8:30 pm |
Dinner: Hotel Chiqui lobby (optional). Each guest will pay for their own meal. Special breakout for those interested in OCW in the K-12 space.
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Wednesday, May 2
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(Breakfast to be arranged individually, prior to the day's events) |
8:00 am
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Meet in hotel lobby for bus ride to conference venue. Bus leaves at 8:15am.
Destination: Guillermo Gómez Laá's Room- Edificio de Derecho y Económicas, Universidad de Cantabria, Avenida de los Castros, 39005 Santander
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8:30 - 10:30
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Welcome, Introductions and Kickoff Presentation
- Kickoff: OCW Consortium: The Past and the Present (John Dehlin, OCWC Director)
- Welcome to all. Introduction/update from each institution (~2 minutes per institution)
(Link to PPT )
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10:30 - 10:45
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Break
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| 10:45 - 12:30 |
2 Tracks in Parallel -- Strategic and Technical
Strategic Track: Curricular and Organizational Considerations for OCW -- Larry Cooperman of UC Irvine OCW (moderator)
1. From a content/curriculum and organizational perspective, what are the different models for doing an OCW? 5-6 institutions will spend 10 minutes each discussion the organization and curricular decisions that they made, and the costs and benefits of that choice (please do NOT go lightly on cost -- it should be evenly balanced between pro and con):
• MIT's approach (Steve Carson): (PPT)
• OU UK's approach (Andy Lane): (PPT)
• USU OCW's approach (Marion Jenson): (Notes)
• Tufts OCW's approach (Nancy Wilson): (PPT)
• UC Irvine's approach (Larry Cooperman): (PPT)
2. What are the tradeoffs you make when choosing between these models? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? What about common metrics like cost per course, level of effort per course, usage and use habits per course, etc.? How do they stack up?
3. How do institutions vet curricular quality in OCW beyond syllabi approved by professors/departments? Is there a usability criteria in its posting, eg. can an intended audience use it for learning? Does OCW have expiration dates? (This is on the input side - the decision to post as OCW rather than the evaluation process gathering feedback on its use)
Technical Track: Institutional Project/Tool Technical Overviews and Best Practice Sharing -- (Dr. David Wiley): (Notes)
Each institution will spend -5 minutes per project (there may be multiple projects from each contributor) showing the technical group their current status (both of projects and tools), sharing best practices, perils and pitfalls, and discussing their future plans.
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| 12:30 - 12:45 |
Break |
| 12:45 - 2:30 |
Strategic Track: OCW Brand Management: Perceptions, Reality, and the Future (John Dehlin, Steve Carson): (Notes).
1. What is the difference between OER and OCW? What officially constitutes an OCW?
2. Who is/are the primary target audience(s) for OCW? What are the current, common perceptions about what OCW is among this group?
3. What do we want our target audience to think of, when they think about OCW?
4. What can we do to properly and proactively manage expectations among our target audience, and to build a successful brand name?
Technical Track: Developing Technical Standards for OCW Content and Web Sites -- (Cecilia d'Oliveira, MIT) (PPT):
This session will attempt to agree on a basic list of technical standards for OCW content and web sites. Topics include: RSS, Metadata, Federated Search and Multimedia.
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| 2:30 - 4:00 |
Lunch -- Keynote -- Dick Rowe: President of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. (PPT)
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| 4:00 - 6:00 |
Strategic Track: How do We Know We're Succeeding with OCW/OCWC? -- (Dr. Dawn Geronimo Terkla and Lisa O'Leary of Tufts OCW, Dr. Flora McMartin of USU OCW). (Notes):
The main questions and issues addressed in this session will include:
1. Revisit goals and priorities set at Kyoto. Ensure consensus.
2. What are the successes, failures, and risks of OCW and the OCWC to date? What are the potential barriers to success?
3. Review of the OCW Consortium Proposal, and its current set of resources and deliverables. How should the Consortium focus its resources?
4. What is or should be the value of the OCW Consortium to its members? How should the OCWC be structured to help foster success?
Technical Track: Collaboration around OCW Content --(Stephen Bradley, OU UK) This session will discuss issues like: forums, wikis, myOCW, mash-ups, video chats, the consumption of IMS packages (IMS Content Packaging (Out), Common Cartridge, Zip Files and multimedia)
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| 6:30 - 8:00 |
Reception / Showcase hall open (An expo of various OCW-related projects from around the consortium) |
| 9:00 - 11:30 |
Dinner. Special side conversation on OCW in the K-12 space. Please contact John if you are interested in participating. |
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Thursday, May 3
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(Breakfast to be arranged individually, prior to the day's events) |
| 8:30 am |
Meet in hotel lobby for bus ride to conference venue. Bus leaves at 8:45am.
Destination: Guillermo Gómez Laá's Room- Edificio de Derecho y Económicas, Universidad de Cantabria, Avenida de los Castros, 39005 Santander
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| 9:00 - 10:45 |
Parallel Events
• General Mixer for OCW Consortium Members
• Technical mixer - a chance to talk code and share code
OCW Newcomer's Orientation - How to Run an OCW at Your Institution (PPT, Notes): In this session we will welcome new attendees. We will discuss the basics for starting your own OCW, including: "Making the OCW Case at your Institution", Ways to Structure your OCW Team, Technologies for OCW, OCW Curriculum and OCW Assessment. Organizers: Terri Bays (Notre Dame University), Marion Jensen (Utah State University), Laura Dewis (OU UK)
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| 10:00 - 10:45 |
Parallel Events
OCWC Governance Discussion: (Moderator: John Dehlin, OCWC Director) (Notes): The purpose of this presentation is NOT to finalize on a governance structure for the OCWC, but to allow for thoughts and opinions to be heard, and to set some direction for formalizing OCWC Governance by the September OCWC Meeting in Logan, UT :
• Review of deliberations to date on OCWC Governance (5 minutes)
• Open forum for thoughts and suggestions from general body (35 minutes)
• Attempt to summarize and establish next steps (5 minutes)
Technical track: Discussion around technical collaboration (Stephen Bradley, Dr. David Wiley) (PPT)
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Break
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| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Keynote: A Review of OCWC Progress Towards Goals and Priorities. Framing for rest of day's conversations. (PPT)
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| 11:45 - 1:45 |
Strategic Track: Breakout sessions on goals and priorities
• OCW Recruitment (More OCWs) -- (J-OCW (PPT), Pedro Aranzadi, Brandon Muramatsu): In this session, we will focus on 2 things: 1) Lessons learned from regional OCW recruiting efforts, including J-OCW, Universia, and the New England (U.S.) effort. 2) We will also do some initial conference planning for the September 2007 OCWC Conference in Logan, UT.
• Sustainability (Dr. Christine Geith) (Notes, Gary Lopez PPT): This session will contain 3 parts: 1) a "best practice exchange" of sustainability lessons learned by existing OCWs, 2) a discussion of "big ideas" relative to OCW sustainability going forward, and 3) a compilation of Sustainability "action items" or "next steps" for the OCWC over the next year. All discussions will coalesce around the following question: What can we do as a consortium to foster the development of sustainable OCW models?
• Reach & Impact (Cec d'Oliveira, Stephen Bradley, David Wiley) (Notes, PPTs): How can we as a consortium broaden the impact of existing OCW course materials? A list of potential topics for discussion include: myOCW, Portal, OCWC forum, Federate Search, the fate of eduCommons, alternate distribution channels, sharing of best practices.
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| 1:45 - 2:00 |
Break |
| 2:00 - 2:30 |
Strategic Technology Considerations for your OCW: (Dr. David Wiley) (PPT): This session will serve as a wrap-up from the conference's technology track, and will highlight for all Consortium members the basic, high-level technical standards and priorities for OCW Consortium members.
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| 2:30 - 4:00 |
Lunch -- Reflections and Open Discussion About the OCWC, Moderated by Dr. Catherine Casserly of the Hewlett Foundation.
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| 4:00 - 5:00 |
Report of breakout deliberations
• Recruitment (Steve Carson) (PPT)
• Sustainability (Dr. Christine Geith) (Notes)
• Reach & Impact (Cec d'Oliveira, Stephen Bradley, David Wiley) (PPT)
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| 5:00 - 6:00 |
• 5:00 - 5:45: Open Mic on Big Questions, and Big Ideas
• 5:45 - 6:00: Closing Remarks
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| 9:00 - 11:30 |
OCWC Closing Dinner |
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Friday, May 4
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All Day
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Iberoamerican OCW Showcase |
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