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Examples of open education practices enabled by OpenETC infrastructure
For some time I’ve been wanting to share some examples of what open education practices (OEP) enabled by open ed tech looks like in practice. OpenETC provides open ed tech infrastructure to the BC higher ed sector in the form of 3 types of services: WordPress, Mattermost, and Sandstorm click and go apps. The most visible examples of OEP are in the WordPress part of OpenETC, since Mattermost (open source Slack) is a more private class or group space, and Sandstorm uses-in-practice aren’t visible to us as administrators. So this is a round-up of a selection of uses of WordPress in OpenETC. WordPress E-portfolios Last year, the biggest uptake for OpenETC…
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Open infrastructure and open education practices
One of the questions that I’ve been percolating and discussing with my OpenETC collaborators is the extent can you do open and engage in open education practices without open infrastructure. The timing is perfect, as I’m about to embark on a two week guest speaker gig for the MET course Planning and Managing Educational Technologies for Higher Education. This is the third year I’ll be doing a guest speaker spot in this course, and while in the previous years I focussed on the institutional organisation of educational technologies, this time I’m going to focus on the growing importance of considering open educational technology as part of the educational technology infrastructure of an institution.…
