Next week is Open Education Week. What does this mean, you are undoubtedly asking yourselves. Well, let me tell you!
First, a quote from the Open Education website:
“Founded in 2013 by the Open Education Global (previously Open Education Consortium), the goal of Open Education Week is to raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. Open Education Week has become one of the most foremost global events recognizing high achievement and excellence in open education.
The week-long event spotlights amazing work from over a dozen categories including live, face-to-face events, webinars, projects, and resources. The Best-of-the-Best participate in Open Education Week. “
So, here we are in year 8 of this amazing event. Institutions around the world are running face to face and online events, and all online events are free so you can attend from your own desk.
The Events page on the Open Education website lets you know what is happening, and where, but it’s a little tricky to navigate.
Interested in an event? Click on it to find out more. And then you can click on Event Schedule to see a complete calendar of events taking place next week.
Click on the date to see all the events, Online Events are listed first, followed by Local (on-site) Events. If it is an online event, click on the event title and then you can click Join Webinar to connect to the session once it begins. The Events page does not have an option to automatically add calendar events to your calendar of choice, so you will have to do that yourself. Just make sure you have the time right, as these events are originating from all over the world.
Next week I’ll be blogging some more about Open Education Week as it happens!