What is "Open Education" and what does it mean for the future of learning?

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CCI and the The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project of Queensland University of Technology are pleased to present a free seminar with leading international and national experts. What is "Open Education" and what does it mean for the future of learning? What role can Australia play? Featuring guest speaker Melissa Hagemann (pictured right) from the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network.

Hagemann currently sits on the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia as well as other leading open content projects, and has served on the Member of Experts' Group of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Library Initiative. She was profiled as a SPARC Innovator in December 2006 for her work within the Open Access movement.

This seminar comes prior to the Open Access and Research (OAR) Conference, 24 - 25 September 2008.