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Dave giving his presentation
Apr
13
2023

OER23: ‘A one star review’…by Eamon Costello

Events OER Open Education Conference OER23 Open education Uncategorized

I am slowly recovering from a terrible OER23 at the beautiful Inverness campus of the University of the Highlands and… View Article

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Who wants change? Crowd with hands up. Who wants to change? Crowd without hands up.
Mar
21
2023

OER23 Guest Blog Post: ‘OER as a tool to educate against discrimination’

Anti-Racism and Learning Technology SIG OER23 Open education

Guest post from our OER23 Committee Member Dr Teeroumanee Nadan. Originally shared 13 Mar 2023 As an #OER23 committee member, I volunteered… View Article

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Mar
20
2023

OER23 Guest Blog Post: ‘A Conversation About Mastodon being a Welcoming Ecosystem for OER Practitioners’

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Clément Aubert and Alan Levine Note: This blog post developed organically starting with open discussion of Mastodon in an OER23… View Article

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Mar
17
2023

OER23 Guest Blog Post: ‘Open Scotland at 10’

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To mark ten years of the Open Scotland initiative we’re delighted to be holding two events as part of the… View Article

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Mar
06
2023

OER23 Guest Post: ‘OEWeek + OEG + OER23…All the Opens’

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I am writing this just three days before the start of Open Education Global (OEG)’s annual Open Education Week March 6-10, 2023.… View Article

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Tree growing in dry desert without leaves, next to green tree surrounded by lush fields
Feb
09
2023

5 Interactive Climate Change Education Tools to Wow Your Students 

Events OER23 Open education

We are excited to be a part of the OER23 conference committee and to contribute our expertise in climate literacy… View Article

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Open in Action
Mar
25
2022

OER22 Guest Post: Achieving a more inclusive Open Education thanks to GO-GN

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The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) was founded by Fred Mulder to bring together active researchers on OER in a… View Article

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Jun
12
2020

ePortfolios for educators

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Background: Earlier in the year I shared a resource I had been working on that I started to develop as part of our annual worldwide company initiative: the ‘Catathon’. Catathon is where we at Catalyst IT would down tools for the day and create something that could be classed as ‘Open’, so for technical colleagues […] View Article

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Aug
06
2019

What is NMIS-Skills?

Community Open education Project learning

NMIS-Skills is part of the wider National Manufacturing Institute Scotland project. NMIS aims to “to be a distributed  industry-led international… View Article

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Jan
29
2019

The PressED conference

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Imagine you had to make the most accessible conference ever. What would you need to consider? Venue, Price, Location, Cost,… View Article

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Laura Ritchie with her students virtually connecting at #OER18
Jun
11
2018

Openly making music together.

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Professor Laura Ritchie (@laura_ritchie) describes herself on her blog as a “musician, teacher, learner, dreamer, open thinker”. Here she recounts… View Article

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Dec
16
2017

It’s time for the next generation of leadership

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  In this blog post, I discuss some aspects of my latest research on next-generation leadership for education for all,… View Article

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