Assistive tools promote independence, productivity, and participation in society. We call for a deeper, more open dialogue around student's use… View Article
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Recent advances in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made it accessible to the wider public through platforms such as OpenAI’s… View Article
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Learning Technologists at Bournemouth University (BU) have been exploring the concept of escape rooms and how they might be used… View Article
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In this post, we consider how the ICAP Framework (Chi and Wylie, 2014) can help support a shared understanding of… View Article
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The legal profession is undergoing its digital transformation journey, reshaping how we practice as lawyers and the nature of how… View Article
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Artificial intelligence has long been touted to change the world as we know it. Long gone is the excitement surrounding… View Article
Leave a commentA11y 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
Leave a commentI 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
2 CommentsThe 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
Leave a commentBased 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
Leave a commentIt 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
Leave a commentContributed 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
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