Just logged into the ISKME Online Summit, perhaps the last event of this year’s Open Education Week that has been stretched to the end of April.
Taking inspiration from resilient redwood forests, ISKME’s OER Summit will focus on how being deeply rooted and connected in our communities helps us to rise and thrive together. Stay up to date about this event on the OER Commons 2026 OER Summit Hub.
Symbolism of redwood trees, how they grow in “fairy rings” around an older tree, that they grow to me some of the tallest trees, but also have deeply connected roots.
Redwood trees are very reslient, to fire, drought, many of them “pivot” turning to grow towards sunlight.
Metaphor of the “nurse tree” relationship where a redwoood tree provides shlter for a new one to grow- I remember that as a term from the Sonoran desert for mesquite/paloverde trees that give shelter for saguaro cactus seeds to get a start.
First session on “Making Camp in OER Commons” by Tyson Brown, National Geographic Society’s Director of Education PowerED Hub
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