Open to ideas! OESIG pre conference session Thurs 1st Sept 1pm UK Getting involved in creating and/or using open… View Article
So much open sharing happening this week for #oeweek. We submitted an event around Open Badge use called Open Love… View Article
A11y and Open are political – webinars & online events are too! – Ghizzi Dunlop Robin Wall Kimmerer said, ‘Western science is knowledge for knowledge’s sake; Traditional Ecological Knowledge is knowledge coupled with responsibility for that knowledge.” Substitute “Open” for “western science” and replace “Traditional Ecological” with “Accessible and Inclusive Open”. Accessibility is […] View Article
Are you all webinar-ed out? Did you find the pandemic raised tricky issues about access to study materials in your institution? Was there confusion about how best to support your students and staff at a distance? Did you have access to resources you needed to support your own development needs? Feel like you are being tossed around in an ocean of questions?? Open Education SIG would like to help. View Article
How are universities helping to fight hunger in the UK? View Article
I have long been puzzled as to why open badges are rarely mentioned in our annual OER conferences. I do believe that the open infrastructure and the innovation which is crystalised in an open badge offers an opportunity for deeper conversations about what we value in education. I was delighted therefore during the course of […] View Article
The wonderful artwork shared above provides a clear metaphor for the current Covid19 crisis which moves amongst us and touches us all, wherever we may live, whatever our circumstances. “We are all in this together” has often been the refrain we hear on the news and in supermarkets. However, new research is revealing that our […] View Article
The current virus crisis has provided many valuable lessons to us all as a society. Very early on the UK a list of key workers was drawn up by the government – these would be the individuals who would be in the front line, keeping us safe and ensuring that we could sustain some sort […] View Article
Based in: The University of the Highlands and Islands (Perth campus). Passionate about: lifelong learning, technology in learning, collaborating. Currently I am a member of the University Learning and Teaching Academy team, however I have worked in and out of the university since 1994 during which time I have undertaken a variety of roles including […] View Article
It is that time of year again! This annual event helps us to share the many open activities we are involved in and this year is a particular challenge as there is so much going on in open education. So this year the Open Ed sig is providing an asynchronous opportunity to focus on the […] View Article
This blog post is shared as part of the Open Education SIG twitter chat for ALT’s winter conference 2019 which… View Article
Contributed by Terese Bird @tbirdcymru As Leicester Medical School’s Educational Designer I oversee the School’s one-iPad-per-student programme. The iPads serve as a digital platform on which we have freedom and flexibility to learn more creatively than traditional methods. Using off-the-shelf apps, our own VLE Blackboard, and ebooks shared out by our Library, students digitally take […] View Article
