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A recent post on the Open Education mailing list OER-DISCUSS from Dr Suchith Anand, Chief Scientist at Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition brought an important issue […]

Serge Ravet is President at Reconnaître – Open Recognition Alliance

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 […]

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The hedgerows are full of fruit right now, these elderberries are so inviting! Bountiful nourishment which we can forage to make a delicious tea time treat at little or now cost. […]

covid canal artwork by Sheila McNeill, shared on twitter.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Open Education Week 2020Webinar preview Wed 4th March

The OER20 conference takes place in London on 1st-2nd April. Always a friendly and welcoming event we are delighted that some of the contributors have […]

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 […]

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This blog post is shared as part of the Open Education SIG twitter chat for ALT’s winter conference 2019 which will be chaired by Teresa MacKinnon and Sam Taylor.

When […]

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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 d […]

The OER19 Conference is nearly upon us and will take place at the National University of Ireland in Galway. It will focus on the following themes:

Back to basics – asking difficult questions about open e […]

An opportunity to hear about open practices in education and to discuss barriers to adoption as part of Open Education week 2019.

We will be joined by Shona Whyte, Associate Professor of English at […]

Based in:
Open Universiteit, Netherlands (but lives in Colorado, USA)
Passionate about:
Intercultural Learning, Open Virtual Mobility, Virtual Exchanges, Collaborative Open Learning, and Open Educational […]

This year’s #OER18 conference will take place in Bristol, UK on the 18th-19th April and is of course open to all!

OER18 turns the focus on one of the often-cited benefits of ‘open’ – the promise of inclusivity. How do the resources, methods and projects that make up Open Education support making education available to all? As a movem…[Read more]

Based in:
University of Warwick School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Passionate about:
Learning through connected practice, languages and communication, fixing copyright, the open web, opening doors!
Open […]

Based in:
The Open University, UK
Open network:
@crumphelen helencrump.
Passionate about:
critical education, walking and camping.

I’m currently in my second year of a PhD. I’m inves […]

Institution
in betweeny
Role
committee member – temporarily taking a break from Co-Chair role
Passionate about
being open, medical science, jazz
Connect
@VivienRolfe   vivrolfe.com

I’m a gut physiologist who has wandered through my working life looking for new gigs. I’ve worked in hospitals, universities and indus…[Read more]