It’s that time of year again. If I can navigate the train strikes I’ll be heading down to Liverpool on Monday for the annual ALT Conference where we’ll be reforming the ALTC Social Media Super Group with Martin Hawksey on filming and live feeds, Rich Goodman on media tweets, Chris Bull on photography, and me […]
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Earlier this week Christina Hendricks at UBC put out a call for examples of student engagement with open education and OER. I was going to reply in comments but as we have lots of great examples of students getting involved with OER at the University of Edinburgh I thought I’d write a short post here. […]
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One of the things I’ll be looking into as part of my new role is key performance indicators for open educational resources. At the University of Edinburgh we have a Vision and Policy for OER that encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience, enrich […]
Read moreA brief report on the International Open Science Conference held in Berlin in March, presented at the University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network event on 28th April 2017. Open Science Conference report from Lorna Campbell The Open Science Conference held in Berlin in April was the 4th international conference sponsored by the Leibniz Research Alliance and […]
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Last week I wrote a reflective blog post about starting out on the CMALT journey, What do you do?, and was delighted to get lots of really helpful practical input from the ALT community on twitter. I’ve captured the advice and discussions in a Storify here Starting CMALT – Advice from the community so I can look back on them and in […]
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I’ve been thinking on and off for the last few days about the fascinating discussions going on around Open Pedagogy. Maha Bali has curated a diverse and thought provoking series of posts on the topic here and has organized a hangout to discuss What is Open Pedagogy? later today. Other than commenting on a few […]
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“So what do you do?” can be a bit of a difficult question to answer when you work in the domain of learning technology. And depending on which area of learning technology you work in it can be a harder question to answer for some than others. My default answer tends to be “I work […]
Read moreReflections on open education policy in the UK since the Cape Town Declaration Paper presented at the OER17 Politics of Open conference. 2017 has officially been designated the “Year of Open”. The Year of Open is a global focus on open processes, systems, and tools, created through collaborative approaches, that enhance our education, businesses, governments, and […]
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The OER17 Politics of Open Conference is taking place in London this week, and I can hardly believe it’s been a year since Melissa and I chaired last year’s conference in Edinburgh! As always, I’m looking forward to catching up with friends from all over the world and meeting some long standing online colleagues irl for […]
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It’s Open Education Week and I’m delighted to be participating in a special EDEN webinar on How To Be More Open: Advice for Educators and Researchers. I’ll be joining Fabio Nascimbeni, Catherine Cronin and Chrissi Nerantzi to discuss a range of questions including: Why should I be more open in my practice and profession? How do you practice […]
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