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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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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

Case studies Conference reviews Innovative practice Open education

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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