Open Educational Resources Conference 2011

Open Educational Resources Conference 2011
Manchester Conference Centre
Wednesday 11 - Friday 13 May 2011

Building on the success of OER10 the event will consist of a stimulating and engaging mix of keynotes, project presentations and case studies, refereed papers, workshops and demos all promoting and disseminating best practice in OER.

Call for submissions, deadline: 30 November 2010

Journal of Interactive Media in Education - Special Edition
A special OER edition of JIME is planned and will feature the best research papers from the conference. Conference presenters are invited (if they wish) to submit a full paper for open peer review for inclusion in JIME. The deadline for this is 24 June 2011. For submissions please refer to the author guidelines at JIME submissions.

All submissions will be blind refereed by the Programme Committee and authors will be notified by 20/12/10. Authors of accepted abstracts will then be invited to submit a full paper for publication in JIME

Oral Presentation submission
Oral presentations are 25 minutes in duration (except where they are part of a Symposium, in which case 10-15 minutes) and should introduce an original theory, concept, method, approach, case study or work in progress related to one or more of the conference themes. 

Workshop submission
A workshop is an interactive session 90 minutes in duration with hands-on activities and/or audience participation. It should introduce one or more new concepts, methodologies or approaches and should have clear intended outcomes for participants. It should be accompanied by additional materials such as hand-outs and would usually have more than one facilitator to enhance engagement. 

Symposium submission
A Symposium (duration 90 minutes) consists of a number (4-5) of short papers (10-15 minutes) clustered around one or more of the conference themes and designed to stimulate discussion and debate. One member should act as Symposium Chair and submit both this form as the "master" Symposium submission accompanied by an Oral Presentation submission form for each of the short papers in the symposium. The Symposium description should state clearly how discussion will be facilitated. 

Demonstration submission
A demonstration should introduce a new tool, technique, resource or methodology. Each demonstration will be 20-25 minutes duration with 5-10 minutes discussion and will form part of a 90 minute demonstration session. 

For more information: http://www.ucel.ac.uk/oer11/papers.html