As a first day event for Open Education Week 2021, we recorded this conversation between Open Education Global Executive Director Paul Stacey and Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Chief Executive Maren Deepwell, along with me, Alan Levine, from OE Global.
What do OE Global and ALT have in common? What do they hope to see happen and come out of Open Education Week? How are they managing strategic planning in the middle of a pandemic? How are these organizations using open approaches to design sustainable online events? How can ALT and OE Global generate more collaboration between organizations in support of open education globally – not just around principles but in actions?
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Paul and Maren shared their perspectives on evolving their respective conferences to provide experiences in lieu of what were long standing and popular in person events. We also heard of the challenges both leaders faced this year in leading open organizations and hope and enthusiasm for finding more ways for both organizations to work together.
Links Mentioned
- OER 19 Galway https://oer19.oerconf.org/
- OE Global 2020 https://conference.oeglobal.org/2020/
- Maren on keynote panel at OE Global 2020 on Open Education and Ethical Futures Keynote Panel: Open Education and Ethical Futures
- OER20 conference https://oer19.oerconf.org/
- OE Global 2021 conference https://conference.oeglobal.org/2020/
- UNESCO Recommendation on OER https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer/recommendation
- OERxDomains Conference https://oer21.oerconf.org/
- Reclaim Hosting http://reclaimhosting.com/
- Guest blog posts for OERxDomains conference https://oer21.oerconf.org/news/
- Open Covid Pledge for Education https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/what-we-do/open-covid-pledge-education
- Maren’s blog posts about leadership https://marendeepwell.com/?cat=15
- OEGlobal 2021-2030 Draft Strategic Plan – Feedback Wanted OEGlobal 2021-2030 Draft Strategic Plan – Feedback Wanted
- ALT release key findings annual survey – coming soon to https://www.alt.ac.uk/news
Questions Posed in the Podcast For You To Respond To
This podcast was posted as an activity for Open Education Week taking place in OEG Connect, where you can follow up listening to the podcast with questions and/or comments. Paul and Maren provided a few seed questions.
From Both
- What does a conference experience look like, in person or online, that gives momre space, time to breathe, and still offer the connections we seek from these events?
From Paul:
- How can organizations / community come together in new ways, create a greater critical mass
From Maren:
- In this time to create senses of hope what would you like more of from open organizations, how can we be more intentional, inclusive, accessible?
I am really looking forward to the conversation with Paul and Alan. My experience of OE Global has focused around events such as last year’s great conference, which I had the pleasure to contribute to. It gave me a great sense of global connections and networking - something that is different from ALT’s network which is more UK focused. I am interested to hear ideas and questions about enablers and barriers to working together in Open Education as we approach Open Education Week.
Such a treat to have an unscripted conversation with Maren and Alan. I’m keen to share ideas, explore what is exciting in our work, think big, and be thankful for small things. Can’t wait to see what emerges as we connect to kick off Open Education Week.
Recording just done, thanks @paulstacey and @mdeepwell for a fabulous conversation. Now let’s see how quickly I can assemble this into a recording…
The audio files, recorded in Zoom with recording option to save each participant as a separate file, are now processed.
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Links Mentioned
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