OER23: Open Education (OER) Conference 2023 University of the Highlands and Islands Inverness, UK, April 4-6, 2023

Conference website	https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/open-education-conference
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oer23
Submission deadline	January 10, 2023

OER23 Conference: Advancing Open Education Practices, 4 - 6 April 2023, Inverness, Scotland is organised by the Association for Learning Technology in partnership with GO-GN and hosted by UHI, we invite you to take part in the 14th Annual Conference for open education research, practice and policy. 

OER23 takes place in person, and also offers opportunities to present online.

OER23 Conference: Advancing Open Education Practices

The conference will put the spotlight on Advancing Open Education Practices through five themes:

• Theme 1: Celebrating the impact of Open Education and OER;  
• Theme 2: Open Education research and policy around the globe;
• Theme 3: Open Education in Scotland - celebrating 10 years of the Scottish Open Education Declaration; 
• Theme 4: Embedding and supporting Open Education through curriculum design; 
• Theme 5: Wildcard. Creative practice in relation to openness. 

How to submit

We now invite proposals for:

Session Types

Submission, reviewing, and acceptance process

All submitted proposals will be peer-reviewed by members of the Conference Committee. After review and one cycle of revision and resubmission, the Conference Committee will select proposals for inclusion in the conference. 

Submission criteria

• The maximum word count is 500 words and you need to state the word count. Submissions under 350 words or over 525 words will not be accepted or reviewed.
• Your submission should include two or three references, and six at most. References should follow the Harvard System (parenthetical referencing – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical_referencing).
• Submissions should not include the names or affiliations of the authors within the text.
• Contributions should not have appeared elsewhere in their entirety, although it is understood that earlier versions or portions of the contributions may have been openly published prior to the conference.
• To ensure a suitably diverse programme, no individual can be named as the main author or presenter of more than one proposal, though they may be named as co-authors. 

Note for proposals with a commercial focus

We do not accept proposals with a primary focus on demonstrating services or products offered by a commercial provider and which do not explicitly address the conference theme(s) in a learning context. If you are unsure of how best to submit your proposal, we encourage you to attend our author webinars or contact us directly.

Review criteria

Proposals will be reviewed according to the following criteria:

• Relevance to one or more of the conference key themes
• Usefulness to conference participants globally, and from across all sectors of education 
• Contribution to the provision of reliable evidence for scholarship and research into Open Education 
• Demonstrated evidence of reflection, evaluation, and criticality
• Engagement of participants 
• Creativity and innovation
• Openness 
• Clarity, coherence and conformance to guidelines.

Education is considered broadly, incl. formal and informal learning settings in schools, colleges, universities, the workplace, homes and communities, at any stage in learners’

Where is OER23?

OER23 will take place in Inverness, Scotland. UHI is a geographically and digitally distributed tertiary university that provides further and higher education opportunities across and beyond the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. With a strong commitment to equality of access to education, UHI has a unique place and deep roots in its communities, and we are looking forward to bringing OER participants from the UK and across the world to the UHI Inverness campus in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.

UHI Inverness, 1 Inverness Campus, Inverness, IV2 5NA - UK. For travel and venue information head over to the conference website. 

Where can I find help?

For more information and help head over to the conference website or email helpdesk@alt.ac.uk .