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#OER16 Quick Overview and Some important links for Scottish FE
A quick overview of a superb two days thinking time.
- Open Educational Resources for those still wondering what #oer means.
- This conference has been going since the inaugural conference at the University of Cambridge in 2010 . It was a great privilege to be once again on the organising committee and chairing some of the sessions this year . This storify captures some of the sessions I attended . The event was supported by the great folks of alt.ac.uk/ co-chaired superbly by twitter.com/LornaMCampbell and twitter.com/HoneybHighton and attracted delegates from 29 different countries to two wonderfully sunny days in Edinburgh.
- I am prejudiced but I do think some of our most creative educators are interested in open education. I enjoyed the action-bound challenge and I made full use of the excellent and well organised on-line programme
- ActionBound would make a great platform for student induction sessions.
You need to download actionbound app #oer16 pic.twitter.com/uuDaPfhVIP- @Catherinecronin did a great job of unpacking the issues around open learning and the digital identity dilemma to being open .
- All of the sessions I attended inspired me and showed way forward for all of us in rethnking what education could be . Many of the sessions were recorded you can access them all on the conference web site oer16.oerconf.org There was something for everyone from policy makers to practitioners.
If open is answer then what is question #oer16 @catherinecronin some thinking along with http://wikieductor.org/Goopen pic.twitter.com/Hu2V5MYi7H- I'll focus here on picking out a few sessions and links that I think further education should tune in to . Every session had something superb wrapped up in it so this is a tough task.
- In no particular order and for those teaching computer games development have a look at
- All of the sessions from Wikimedia offered something for Colleges and adult learners - I can't do them all justice in a post . But Colleges should be using Wikimedia tools not just as reference materials but as active learning tools. Learners should be authoring content for all of the wikimedia platforms
- If you haven't discovered DS106 and you teach anything creative then have look - that primary learners all around the world are now doing some of the assigments should tell you something startling.
- I am assured that all of the BBC RES and other re-sources will be available to Scottish Schools through GLOW I hope similar thought has gone into how Colleges will access these probably through JISC services
- The research and education space (RES) | RIchard Leeming BBC great session on new resources for learning #oer16 https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-education-space …
- I saw a whole new academic discipline open up as David Kernohan set out his thesis on Blogs as now being more accessible, authoritative, accessible and capable of citation than traditional research. All pointing to new ways of evaluating the impact of academic publishing.
Evaluating blog corpus on open education nice work from @dkernohan now on to semanometrics and citation metrics pic.twitter.com/rI98Nt78jN- Dublin City University student success tool box - give Colleges a range of customiseable re-sources for induction and much more . Every College in Scotland needs access to this . Perhaps one for CDN to have a look at . Available for download from github
- These two superb characters - are driving global changes in Educational blogging and content creation SPLOT is just one of a range of tools they demoed splot.ca/about/ watch their session carefully I liked NSCloner which gives teachers any kind of Wordpress blog they want quickly and easily
- Check out too how American Community Colleges use OER across the curriculum
- And finally if you want a closer to home example check out Edinburgh University open.ed.ac.uk/ Every College should have its own modest ambitions in opening up learning . There are 210,000 learners no longer in Scottish FE . How are you reaching out into your communities and local businesses and offering real support.
Three strands of the vision #oer16 pic.twitter.com/Q6BAoRxRld- If you missed out - think about becoming a member of ALT and/or book your place or better submit a presentation idea to next year's conference
- #oer16 delighted to be co-chairing #oer17 with @atarkowski https://oer17.oerconf.org/ - the politics of open
- And remember too to read and comment on the Scottish Open Education Declaration !
Read (& comment on) the Scottish Open Education Declaration. #OER16 http://openscot.net/declaration/ pic.twitter.com/Wd7xWUa17b
