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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.

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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]

At a time when social media is playing an important role in mediating opportunities for professional development, dissemination of practice and international, intra-institutional collaboration, this tweet chat will share examples of what it means to support learning and collaborate in the open. It will be part of the activities in the #altc…[Read more]

“Destroying open ed”  That was the title of the workshop I attended virtually at #opened17 this year. Taking place in California, the timing in the UK was a challenge as it would start at 11.30pm on a Friday night. Would I manage to stay awake sufficiently to take part?

The format was experimental based on the Liberating Structures…[Read more]

This summer the Open Ed Sig is hosting a webinar which brings together people from across the many Open Education communities in order to facilitate a discussion of our shared values. The Open Ed Sig, having […]

This ALT Open Education SIG webinar is shared with FELTAG SIG and is part of a series of webinars ALT is organising in support of the FELTAG Movement.

Thursday 15th June, 1pm

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OER17 presented an opportunity for open practitioners, activists, educators and policy makers to come together as a community to reflect on The Politics of Open. What are our current key challenges and s […]