{"id":120,"date":"2013-12-16T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastmidslt.wordpress.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2023-01-04T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:45:21","slug":"emlt-meeting-at-de-montfort-university-december-11th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/emlt-meeting-at-de-montfort-university-december-11th-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"EMLT Meeting at De Montfort University, December 11th 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome and overview of meeting<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Sarah Horrigan opened the event with a quote from Martin Weller (2013) about openness.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpenness has been successful in being accepted as an approach in higher education and widely adopted as standard practice. \u00a0In this sense it has been victorious, but this can be seen as only the first stage in a longer, ongoing battle around the nature that openness should take. \u00a0There are now more nuanced and detailed areas to be addressed, like a number of battles on different fronts. \u00a0After the initial success of openness as a general ethos then the question becomes not \u2018do you want to be open?\u2019 but rather \u2018what type of openness do you want?\u2019. \u00a0Determining the nature of openness in a range of contexts so that it retains its key benefits as an approach is the next major focus for the open education movement.<\/p>\n

Open approaches complement the ethos of higher education, and also provide the means to produce innovation in a range of its central practices. \u00a0Such innovation is both necessary and desirable to maintain the role and function of universities as they adapt. \u00a0It is essential therefore that institutions and practitioners within higher education have ownership of these changes and an appreciation of what openness means. \u00a0To allow others to dictate what form these open practices should take will be to abdicate responsibility for the future of education itself.\u201d (Weller, 2013)<\/p>\n

Weller, M. (2013), The battle for open – a perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, available from http:\/\/www-jime.open.ac.uk\/article\/2013-15\/pdf<\/a>, date accessed 13th December 2013<\/p>\n

PechaKucha presentations<\/h1>\n

We then had some PechaKucha presentations from EMLT members.<\/p>\n

Martin Cooke (Jisc RSC East Midlands) – Balabolka<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watch Martin\u2019s presentation about the free text-to-speech tool Balabolka.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mcRqrsQwH6g<\/a><\/p>\n

Resources<\/p>\n