Now that we have turned over the leaf on the new calendar year, and many are returning to their work places (that’s me today), we would like to know what in the broad landscape of open education you are hoping to reach for this year?
Let us know in a reply below, tell us in words or photos. And look for much more as we seek to make this community even more active in 2025. It’s yours to use.
Happy new year! As community lead for #LTHEchat a weekly tweet chat that started in 2014, we have made the decision after 10 years to transition to Bluesky. We’ve prepared guidance on how to get started in Bluesky and how to follow a hashtag by creating a Feed. We hope we can make new connections and reengage colleagues who had left Twitter and moved to Bluesky. If you’d like to find out more take a look at our blog https://lthechat.com. The weekly Learning and Teaching in HE chat created by the community for the community takes place Wednesday 8-9pm GMT.
Happy New Year, Sue, and thanks for sharing these changes for #LTHEchat which has had such a great long run due to I say its participants, not the platform we will not mention by name
Please share more when the details on how to join are available, and hope you can add the sessions for Open Education Week (Mar 3-7) when we open the event form mid January (ping me if you are willing to be an early tester).
On Bluesky you can find me at @suebecks.bsky.social and #LTHEchat at @lthechat.bsky.social! The chat centres round topics relating to learning and teaching in HE and takes place 8-9pm GMT.
Thank you Alan for the invitation. I am reaching for collaboration and interest in using a new open online course Distributing learning and knowledge creation which sets open education in a knowledge equity setting. We hope that the course will be of use to education providers for staff development and capacity building, and I would be delighted to discuss further with anyone who may be interested.
I’m tentatively working towards one of my ‘Hamming questions’ being something like:
How can microcredentials avoid simply replicating old hierarchies and instead support more equitable approaches to recognising learning?
Yes, I know I’ve been working on this for a while now. But as technologies evolve, adoption grows, and terminologies change, the work around equity and openness continues!
And thank for as usual, Doug, being a good example of being a community participant with replying.
I’m assured knowing there is some good energy going in microcredentials, and we here are hoping to get a bit more in the game (we do the usual digital badge issuing for a few things, like the OE Awards and Open Education Week participation).
I would guess you’ve written before/repeatedly, but what would this new era of microdentials look like? Are there any current examples that are fulfilling the latter supporting “more equitable approaches to recognising learning”.
In the spirit of not just asking people to contribute, but doing it myself, and maybe aligned…
I.m keenly interested in cultivating within the open community space, more ongoing activity of smaller skill recognition/thanks to people for the efforts they put into this. This is to augment our much larger program, the Open Education Awards for Excellence, which has a steeper level of effort to nominate, and highlights (well) the “big” achievements and achievers.
But what if we did more regular small acts of acknowledgement, appreciation? I know we have had overlapping conversations with @VisualThinkery Sorry Bryan, I am behind on editing our podcast conversation where we played out the ideas you and Dough have had to on “hat tips”.
I am hoping maybe here to encourage regular acts of using your Remixer Machine Hat Tipper to make those visible.
