Blogged: The Insides / Making of Open Education Week

I am old school web and still believe in the value of publishing on my own site my thoughts and ways of working. Writing this helps me reflect and process and gives a record to look back on later.

So I just extruded a rather long, and likely overly detailed review of how the Open Education Week site works and the thinking I have put into it since taking on managing the project in 2024.

Taking Away Time Zone Math

This includes auto detection of the browser setting for time zone, and making that the choice in the top right menu, to assign what local time events are displayed in (one can always choose a different one, to see times in Kuala Lumpur time). I never want to force site visitors to do timezone map or fiddle with some external date/time calculator.

Special thank for this feature! A colleague and I were invited to lead a workshop by Canadian colleagues this Monday. By cross-checking with the OEWeek Calendar, we realised that time change takes place in Canada a few weeks before France, so that the workshop was one hour earlier than we expected.