Open Peer Learning: School of Data and School of Open
Description
Outside of the open communities, few people know how to apply “open” tools, practices, and standards to their work. In addition to a discussion on successful open peer learning environments, Creative Commons, P2PU, and the OKFN will introduce the School of Open and the School of Data and lead a workshop to prototype “open” challenges — a collaborative process of designing and developing challenges on how “open” applies to various domains of interest, eg. data, research, education. Challenges may be anything from “Copyright for educators” to “How to get your journal to be Open Access” to “Using (open) data to prove your point”.
Session Host
Jane Park, Creative Commons, United States, @janedaily, janepark (at) creativecommons.org
Contributors
Jessica Coates, Session moderator, Creative Commons, U.S., @damph
Timothy Vollmer, Session moderator, Creative Commons, @tvol
Philipp Schmidt, Session moderator, P2PU, @schmidtphi
Laura Newman, Co-lead, OKFN
Robert Sweeny, Discussion co-lead, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Bios
Jane Park: Jane is Project Manager in education for Creative Commons, a nonprofit org that works to maximize digital creativity, sharing, and innovation in a very simple way: free copyright licenses and tools that let anyone, anywhere share their work with the world. Currently, she is leading kick-off efforts for a School of Open (http://schoolofopen.org), a collaboration with the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), of which she is a founding volunteer.
Timothy Vollmer: Timothy Vollmer is Policy Manager and Open Data Coordinator for Creative Commons. Prior to rejoining CC, Timothy was Assistant Director to the Program on Public Access to Information for the American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. He was a research investigator for the Open.Michigan Open Educational Resource initiative, helped develop a student-centric OCW publishing pilot there.
Jessica Coates: Prior to joining CC as its Global Network Manager, Jessica worked as a copyright specialist and community manager in Australia. There she spent much of her time as the Project Manager of Creative Commons Australia and the Creative Commons Clinic, a research program at the Queensland University of Technology. She has also had stints working as a copyright and broadcasting policy adviser for the Australian government and Australia’s commercial television broadcasters, as well as an academic, lecturer and educator.
Philipp Schmidt: Not just a pretty face, Philipp is the executive director of P2PU answering only to the board, the community and Delia (uhm, so, everyone.) How he still manages to get any work done is a mystery.
Details
Location: HACK workshop 4
Date & Time: Wed 19, 11:30-15:30
Target Group: Open enthusiasts, experts on open tools, open licenses, open content, open education, open data, open everything! Also anyone interested in this topic.
Topic Stream: Open Research and Education
Session Etherpad page: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/Open_Peer_Learning_Workshop