Last week I was at the OER22 Conference, and I was actually at the conference because for the first time in two years the OER Conference was in person and online. OER22 was a hybrid conference in every sense of the word; the first day took place in London, the second day featured recorded online […]
Read moreMany thanks to P-8 Digital Skills Project “Strengthening Digital Skills in Teaching”, ETH Zürich and ZHAW for inviting me to speak at their OER Conference 21. Slides and transcript of my talk, which highlights the work of Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan McAndrew, GeoScience Outreach students and Open Content Curation Interns, are available here. Before we […]
Read moreEarlier this week I had the very great pleasure of joining my colleagues Myles Blaney and Michael Gallagher for their fabulous M&M Podcast to talk about knowledge equity. I’m a big fan of the M&M Podcast and knowledge equity is a topic that is very close to my heart so I really enjoyed the experience. […]
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The OER Conference is always one of the highlights of the year for me. I’ve been privileged to attend every single one since conference launched in 2010 and it’s been interesting to see how the event has changed as open education has evolved over the last 11 years. My keynote at the 2018 conference focused […]
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Today saw the publication of an important and very timely resource for open educators and policy makers: Open Education Policies: Guidelines for Co-Creation by Javiera Atenas, Leo Havemann, Jan Neumann and Cristina Stefanelli. The aim of the guidelines is to: “support institutions and governments in the development of open education policies promoting the adoption of […]
Read moreI’ve been thinking quite a lot about open policy this year, and I want to take a moment to try and put some of these thoughts into writing. Despite, or perhaps because of, the global pandemic, there have been some significant policy developments in the broad domain of open knowledge this year. In April, in […]
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How is it September already?! Time always seems to fly at the end of summer but this year has been particularly weird as we’ve started to ease out of lockdown. July seemed to run on for ages, and then August disappeared in the blink of an eye! The best thing about September is that it […]
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The OER Conference is always one of the highlights of the year for me. It’s the only open education conference I attend regularly and I’m privileged to have been present at every single one since the conference launched at the University of Cambridge back in 2010. So needless to say, I was gutted that the […]
Read moreIt’s been nothing short of inspiring to see the heroic efforts of learning technologists all over the country to help their colleagues move their teaching online over the last week. Special shout out to my colleagues in LTW who have calmly and patiently trained over six hundred academic staff to use our core tools and […]
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At the end of February I was honoured to be invited to present the closing keynote at the Wikimedia in Education Summit at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University. This is the transcript of my talk. Introduction Although I’m originally an archaeologist by background, I’ve worked in the domain of learning technology for over twenty […]
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