Monthly Archives: October 2020

Webinar 2: Open Educational Practices with Lorna Campbell and Catherine Cronin

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Lorna Campbell. CC-BY-SA-4.0, Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons

Catherine Cronin

Catherine Cronin

I’m delighted to announce my next webinar, on Tuesday 3rd November at 11am GMT. If you are not taking this module and wish to join the webinar then please register using this form. In this interactive session, Lorna Campbell and Catherine Cronin will explore interpretations of Open Education Practice and share recent examples arising in response to COVID-19. Various aspects of OEP will be explored, e.g., OEP to build community, OEP for teaching, OEP for authentic assessment, and OEP and policy. To conclude the session, Catherine and Lorna will invite participants to collaborate and explore potential applications of OEP in their own contexts.  

Lorna is a learning technology service manager at the University of Edinburgh’s Open Educational Resources Service. She has a longstanding commitment to supporting open knowledge and open education, and blogs about openness, knowledge equity and digital labour at Open World  http://lornamcampbell.org/ Lorna is also a Trustee of Wikimedia UK and the Association for Learning Technology, and an active member of the #femedtech network. You can find Lorna on twitter at @lornamcampbell. 

Meanwhile Catherine Cronin is Strategic Education Developer at the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education where her work focuses on digital and open education in the Irish HE sector. Other work includes writing and editing (e.g.,Open at the margins: Critical perspectives on open education) and collaborating on equity-focused open education projects including FemEdTech and Equity Unbound. You can find Catherine at @catherinecronin and http://catherinecronin.net/.

First Webinar on Digital Literacy, Copyright and Creativity

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Chris at CC Summit by Sebastiaan ter Burg2

On Tuesday 27th October at 11am the first webinar for the module EDM122 Digital Literacies and Open Practice will take place. This session is being delivered by Chris Morrison who is the Copyright, Licensing and Policy Manager at the University of Kent. Chris and I run the website copyrightliteracy.org and he is the creator of Copyright the Card Game and co-creator of The Publishing Trap, our game of open access and scholarly communication. Together we also run a regular webinar series on Copyright in a Time of Crisis, hosted by the Association for Learning Technology. We also have a fun podcast series called Copyright Waffle. Oh and we have a collection of novelty copyright t-shirts. No doubt Chris will be wearing one next week!

The webinar topic is based on a chapter that Chris wrote in the book Digital Literacy Unpacked edited by Katharine Reedy and Jo Parker. Chris’s chapter is available on open access in the Kent Academic Repository.

If you are not formally enrolled on this module and wish to book a place on the webinar then please complete the form to book your place. A link will be sent to you ahead of the webinar, with the joining instructions.

 

Welcome to EDM122: Digital Literacies and Open Practice

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Jane at INTED in ValenciaI’m really delighted to be running this 15 credit module  as part of the Masters in Academic Practice for the third year running, so welcome to my new cohort at City University. For those who are not at City, but who would like a taste of the module you are very welcome to join the webinar series. I have also made information available about the teaching days and the reading list from the blog.

Digital Literacies and Open Practice is an opportunity for staff to explore two important and inter-related issues, that are central to the role that technology plays in education. It will be particularly interesting to discuss these issues in light of the COVID-19 crisis and the rapid shift to online learning. The importance of considering your own, but also your students’ digital literacies has been only too apparent with the start of the new academic year. Students’ entire learning experience is being mediated by technology and I have regularly had discussions with staff who made assumptions about what students might already know, about how to use technology and how to behave online. I think the need to embed digital literacies into the curriculum are now more important than ever before.

And the crisis has also highlighted the value of open practice, whether it’s about sharing teaching resources, helping students get access to digitised or electronic key readings, and the need for open access research. A month or so I signed the Open COVID pledge, to try and be open in the work I write and publish.  I’ve also been running regular webinars for the education community on copyright and online learning, with my research partner, Chris Morrison. So I am delighted, that the first webinar, coming up on 27th October will be delivered by Chris, who will talk more about copyright literacy.

I hope you can join some of this module and if you would like to understand a bit more about the rationale behind it and the feedback from the first cohorts, then I have recently published the paper I presented just a few weeks before lockdown at the INTED Conference in Valencia. It all seems like a dream now, international conferences and overseas travel, after spending the last six months in my home office. But I am looking forward to this module starting and to sharing my passion for digital literacies and open practice with anyone interested, wherever they might be in the world.