Open Education Handbook/Open Education - Conferences and Events

There are several points in the calendar where awareness of openness in education is raised. These include:


 * Open Education Week (March)
 * Open Access Week (October)
 * Open Data Day (February)
 * Education Freedom Day (January)

There are also many conferences dedicated to open education which take place all around the world.

Open Education Conferences

 * Europe:


 * Online Educa – Annual global elearning conference held in Berlin.
 * OER14 conference – Annual conference held in the UK, focused on OER.
 * Mozilla Festival – Annual event usually held in London, lots of teaching and learning activities related to web.
 * OKFest – The Open Knowledge Foundation Festival – this year open education is likely to an important area.
 * Wikimania - Annual conference centered on Wikimedia projects with tracks dedicated to education, free culture, open data, and more.
 * Cetis Conference - Annual Conference from Cetis, UK centre that specialises in technology innovation and interoperability standards in learning, education and training.
 * OPPI - Helsinki Learning Festival: Held in Helsinki, first year in 2014. Focuses on new learning practices.


 * USA:


 * OpenEd conference – Annual conference held in US, currently the biggest Open education conference in the world.
 * OCWC Conference – Held in the US and organised by the Open Courseware Consortium.
 * Connections - US conference that brings together leading policy, academic and technology experts to discuss the future of open education resources (OER) as well as the technologies that are making this future a possibility.


 * Non-Western:


 * Inaugural International Conference on Open and Flexible Learning (ICOFE) – Annual event held last year in Hong Kong.
 * International Conference of the African Virtual University – This year was the first year this conference ran, held in Kenya.
 * Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning – Bi-annual event organised by the Commonwealth of Learning, held in Africa.
 * Asia Regional OpenCourseWare And Open Education Conference - Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and organised by University of Malaya.
 * EELU ICEL 2014 - EELU International conference on e-learning - Held in Egypt.
 * OER Asia - Open Educational Resource Community in Asia Symposium - Held in WOU in Penang, now in its 2nd year.