Teaching Matters OER Theme Roundup
Last week, the OER Service’s Teaching Matters blog theme, marking five years of Open Education Resources at the University of […]
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OERxDomains21 – All Change
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 […]
Read moreOpen Educational Resources: An equitable future for education in Scotland
by Lorna M. Campbell and Joe Wilson In the 8 years since the launch of Open Scotland, the aims of this voluntary cross sector initiative, and the Scottish Open Education Declaration [1], are more relevant than ever: To raise awareness of open education, encourage the sharing of open educational resources, and explore the potential of […]
Read moreOpen education and knowledge equity for all
This is a transcript of a keynote I gave at the Open University H818 The Networked Practitioner conference. The principles of open education were outlined in the 2008 Cape Town Declaration, one of the first initiatives to lay the foundations of w…
Read more25 Years of Ed Tech: E-Learning Standards
When Clint Lalonde came up with the crazy and wonderful idea of recording a serialised audio version of Martin Weller’s 25 years of Ed Tech book and asked if I was interested in getting involved, I knew right away which chapter I wanted to read. And I also knew it was one of the chapters […]
Read moreOpen Education Policies: Guidelines for Co-Creation
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 moreOpen Practice in Practice
Last week I had the pleasure of running a workshop on open practice with Catherine Cronin as part of City University of London’s online MSc in Digital Literacies and Open Practice, run by the fabulous Jane Secker. Both Catherine and I have run guest webinars for this course for the last two years, so this […]
Read moreOpen Policy for Learning and Teaching
Earlier in September, my colleague Neil McCormick, Education Technology Policy Officer at LTW, and I took part in Jane Secker […]
Read moreFor the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER
This is a belated transcript of the talk I gave at the ALT Summer Summit 2020. Slides from this presentation are available here: For the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER. At the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNES…
Read moreDigital Safety and Citizenship Resources
Learn more about digital safety and citizenship and how these issues impact you as a member of the university community. […]
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