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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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Reflecting on a decade
This week I’m wrapping up almost a decade at JIBC (9 years and 7 months to be exact). This is almost 3x longer than any other stay with an employer and it feels important to pause and reflect on this formative time. I started at JIBC as an Educational Technology Specialist. It was a brand new position, with no rules and few expectations other than “we need you to harness the online learning activity that is happening here”. It came with a 40k budget and an office of one, but this office of one had a door, a huge window, and a view of the pond. I had spent the…
