Still time to register for OER17
I am a newbie to OER conferences, and #OER16 was the first I attended. It was fun, informative and helped me move forward my ideas about Open Education. I loved it, and live blogged and blogged quite...
View ArticleOpen by Accident
In 1996, I was lecturing in Information Systems in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at University of Salford. A colleague ran a Lotus Notes Server (under his desk as I recall) that...
View ArticlePreparing for OER17
Packing Pile by Frances Bell CC-BY-NC-SA I seem to have been preparing for OER17 for a long time, seeing as this is my eighth post tagged OER17 . I am setting off on Tuesday morning, and I am really...
View ArticleHiding in the Open #OER17 Keynote
Maha Bali describes herself as “open and connected educator, learnaholic and writeaholic” and you can find her on Twitter and at her blog. Maha has modelled openness in the development of her keynote...
View ArticleReaching Other Audiences #OER17 Keynote
Diana Arce @visualosmosis, Director of Artists Without a Cause @ArtistsWAC, gave the second keynote at OER17. She is an artist and activist who works with other artists to critique and make change...
View ArticleOpening up Wikimedia Content and Communities #OER17 Keynote
Lucy Crompton-Reid, the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK, and Karaoke Queen, introduced herself to us, revealing her broad experience, and enthusiasm for Wikipedia. Lucy was very happy when Jim Groom...
View ArticleThe Paradise (hopefully not lost) of #OER17
Last week I was lucky enough to attend OER17 an Open Education conference, The Politics of Open. When I heard at the close of OER16 that was the theme and that Josie Fraser and Alek Tarkowski were the...
View ArticleMissed Conversations – in more ways than one #OER17
This evening I participated in a Missed Conversation via VConnecting session that followed up on a #TowardsOpenness workshop at #OER17. It’s lovely that OER17 continues to ripple on nearly a week...
View ArticleGround Zero Approaches to Open #YearofOpen
Whilst I was at the OER17 Conference, via Twitter I became aware of a minor controversy around a post by David Wiley, How Is Open Pedagogy Different? published on April 4, just before OER17. Jim...
View ArticleWhat are the literacies of resisting the new norm(al)? #altc
I gave (with the considerable help of the other participants in the room) a 20 minute presentation at ALTC 2017, in the Empowerment in Learning Technology Theme, here is the abstract and here is an...
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