The 4th annual international conference “Learning Innovations and Quality” (LINQ 2015) has extended the deadlines of its three calls to 4 March, 2015 after a clear demonstration of interest by the community. After the successful conference from 2013 in Rome and 2014 in Crete, LINQ has decided to return to its birthplace of Brussels to investigate the theoretical and practical potential of openness in education as a widespread default. From 11 to 13 May 2015, LINQ will convene international learning experts and practitioners from all educational sectors. Interested parties are invited to submit research papers, project overviews, and workshop proposals on the following themes by 4 March, 2015:
• Vision and needs for change in education through open learning worldwide
• Strategies and implementations of openness in learning processes
• Global aspects of high-quality open education
• Quality indicators and methods to describe, measure and evaluate quality for open education, OER and MOOCs
• Conceptual contributions on new and innovative quality models, methodologies, standards and approaches for open education and e-learning
• Practical experiences and reports with implementations of quality approaches for open education
• Competences required by institutions as well as by learners for designing, practicing and improving the quality of open learning
• Methodologies for and experience of increased recognition of open learning in formal, non-formal and informal learning, education and training
• Certification of open education and e-learning in institutions, programs & courses
• Integrated innovation and quality approaches for opening up education
• International, national and regional quality projects related to the themes of the conference
