D’Arcy Norman has a new post on his thoughts about Open Education Conference 2009. Norman discusses a range of topics, but most notably inclusion. He suggests that the conference had a “strong sense of male dominance” and asks how the conference could be made more diverse. From the post:
If the open education conference was so strongly over-represented by white males who shared similar backgrounds, why is that? If it’s not through active exclusion (there is no club to join, no registry to sign, no approval process), it may be through a sense of inclusion or non-inclusion. Why are women, people of colour, people of various other backgrounds, not as strongly represented here?
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