Programme of the Congress
Programme of the 2012 World Open Educational Resources Congress
Wednesday 20 June
14:30 - 16:00
Opening address
Ms Irina Bokova
Director-General
UNESCO
Ms Asha S. Kanwar
President and CEO
Commonwealth of Learning
Keynote address
Mr Lawrence Lessig
Director
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Harvard University
USA
16:00 - 16:15
Setting the context for World OER Congress
Sir John Daniel
Project Director
Fostering Governmental Support for OER Globally
Commowealth of Learning
16:15 - 17:30
High Level Session on OER in the Caribbean and Africa
Ms Franka Alexis Bernadine
Minister of Education and Human Resources Development
Grenada
Thursday 21 June
10:00 - 10:15
Ms Trudi Van Wyk
Education Specialist - eLearning
Commonwealth of Learning
10:15 - 11:25
High Level Session on OER in Europe and Latin America
Mr Angelo Vanhoni
Chamber of Deputies
Brazil
Ms Milena Damyanova
Deputy Minister of Education Youth and Science
Bulgaria
Mr David Porter
Executive Director
BcCampus Canada
Mr Igor Ostrowski
Vice-Minister
Ministry of Administration and Digital Affairs
Poland
Biography
Mr Hal Plotkin
Senior Policy Advisor
Office of the Under Secretary of Education
USA
Mr Francisco Javier Giménez Duarte
Vice-Minister of Education for Educational Development
Paraguay
11:35 - 12:45
High Level Session on OER in the Arab States and Asia and the Pacific
Ms Samira Al Moosa
Permanent Delegate of the Sultanate of Oman to UNESCO
providing a contribution by
Ms Madiha Al Shaibani
Minister of Education
Oman
Ms Emma Kruse Va'ai
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
National University of Samoa
Samoa
Mr Chul-Kyun Kim
President
Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS)
Republic of Korea
12:50 - 13:10
Summary of the 6 Regional OER Policy Fora
Sir John Daniel
Project Director
Fostering Governmental Support for OER Globally
Commowealth Of Learning
Ms Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic
Senior Consultant
Commonwealth of Learning
14:30 - 16:00
Panel Discussion 1: Issues and Challenges for OER
Mr Dirk Van Damme
Head of the Innovation and Measuring Process Division
Directorate for Education
OECD
Mr Sounaglo Ouedraogo
Education and Training Director
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
Mr Magnus Malnes
European Students Union
Belgium
Ms Edith Moraes
Plan CEIBAL
Uruguay
Mr Mansoor Al Awar
Chancellor
For Learning and Academic Development
Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University
United Arab Emirates
Mr Guido Langouche
Secretary
International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAE)
Netherlands
16:00 - 17:30
Panel Discussion 2: Government Representatives on the Paris Declaration on OER
Ms Mariama Ali
Minister of Education
Niger
Mr Xavier Prats Monné
Deputy Director-General
DG Education and Culture
European Commission
Ms Mojca Skrinjar
State Secretary
Education, Science, Culture and Sport
Slovenia
Friday 22 June
10:00 - 10:15
Ms Zeynep Varoglu
Programme Specialist
for ICT in Education
UNESCO
10:15 - 11:00
Debate: Idealists vs Realists on the Future of OER - Mainstreaming and Partnerships
Idealists
Mr Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair on OER
Open Universiteit of the Netherlands
Netherlands
Ms Barbara Chow
Program Director
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
USA
Realists
Mr Neil Butcher
OER Strategist
South Africa
Ms Catherine Ngugi
OER Africa
Kenya
11:00 - 13:00
Closing Plenary
Mr Joshua Mallet
Ministry of Education
Ghana
Ms Asha S. Kanwar
President and CEO
Commonwealth of Learning
