VC is an OER
Virtually Connecting is often an event, Virtually Connecting is a resource but Virtually Connecting is also a community. Many of us in the VC community are deeply connected to OER which makes this event extra special.
We welcome others to join us to become part of this movement, if you have not yet read “The Paradox of Inclusion” on this blog, you should do that right after deciding how to participate at #OER17.
We are excited to offer eight opportunities to connect virtually to the event and converse with the people at #OER17: The Politics of Open which is being held in London, UK on April 5 and 6 of 2017. We have onsite buddies Autumm Caines, Maha Bali, Christian Friedrich, Martin Weller, Sue Beckingham, Teresa Mackinnon, Suzan Koseoglu, and Rajiv Jhangiani connecting you through our virtual buddies Nadinne Aboulmagd, Alan Levine, Helen DeWaard, Simon Ensor, Mia Zamora, Joe Murphy and Ken Bauer. Conference keynotes, plenaries and main hall sessions are livestreamed, whereas Virtually Connecting sessions allow virtual participants to engage in conversations with onsite participants – it’s all informal, more like a conference hallway chat.
If you’re interested in joining any of these sessions, please sign up using this form or you can tweet us @vconnecting or leave a comment below. We’ll ask for your email address so we can send you a link to the session just before it goes live. Title times are local of the conference site, scroll below to find the times adjusted to your timezones and the links to watch the sessions live or recorded if you can’t make it into the session itself.
If you’re new to Virtually Connecting, read more about us here.
Here is the schedule (guests’ Twitter handles are all in the tags for this post)
Wednesday April 5 with Muirreanne O’Keefe and Tanya Dorey-Elias
This will be right after the morning keynote, 1100-1120. Onsite buddies Rajiv Jhangiani and Christian Friedrich, virtual buddies Ken Bauer and Nadine Aboulmagd.
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Wednesday April 5 with Laura Ritchie, Pauline Ridley, Maha Bali
This will be at the end of lunch onsite 1300-1330 (also immediately before our Vconnecting session in Seminar 6). With onsite buddies Autumm Caines & Christian Friedrich and virtual buddies Alan Levine and Nadine Aboulmagd.
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Wednesday April 5 Walk By and Hallway
This will be at 1620-1635 where Maha, Autumm, Christian, Martin, Teresa and Kate will connect with us and see who they can pull from the crowd to join us. Virtual buddies Helen DeWaard and Simon Ensor.
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Wednesday April 5 with Martin Hawksey, John Robertson and Lorna Campbell
End of day session, from 1730-1800. With onsite buddy Teresa MacKinnon and virtual buddies Nadine Aboulmagd and Simon Ensor.
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Thursday April 6 with Diana Arce and Sheila MacNeill
Our first session for Thursday – 0900-0930 with onsite buddies Autumm Caines and Maha Bali; virtual buddy Nadine Aboulmagd.
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Thursday April 6 with Jim Luke, Helen Beetham, Fabio Nascimbeni
This session will take place during the first half of lunch, 1240-1310, with onsite buddies Autumm Caines and Sue Beckingham, virtual buddies Helen DeWaard and Simon Ensor.
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Thursday April 6 with Lucy Crompton-Reid, Lisa Taner, and Maren Deepwell
This session will take place near the end of lunch, with onsite buddy Martin Weller and virtual buddies Nadine Aboulmagd and Simon Ensor.
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Thursday April 6 with Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Sukaina Walji
Our end of event session and wrapup
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If you’re interested in joining any of these sessions, please sign up using this form
Part of what makes VConnecting special is the spontaneity – onsite guests may have to join us a little later than scheduled or leave early.
Oh – and we made this fun video trailer!
And if you have a minute, participate in our Twitter poll (open til Thursday Apr 6)
Do you think @VConnecting addresses the needs of…
(we will use results of this poll in our #OER17 presentation Wed April 5 at 13:30 UK)— Maha Bali, PhD مها بالي 🌵 (@Bali_Maha) March 31, 2017
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