Experiment in Progress, But Do Not Keep Out, Federate on In

We are coming up to soon being one month until the launch of Open Education Week 2025. This is the time where I get a little bit nervous about the response to our calls for adding events to the calendar and for sharing open assets. My OE Global colleagues remind me to be patient as the pace always picks up at this point.

And we can sense a bit of the building wave, as this week more events have been contributed and are available on the overall calendar. Keep your eye as well on the geographic spread through the map view of upcoming events.

Map view of where Open Education Week events original from. Is there any location that conjures a question for you?

We have room for many many many more.

I was looking for an openly licensed image to use on this post, and turned to one of my favorite resources, Openverse, with a general image search on wave.

Many typical and quite beautiful photos of ocean waves came by, the image for this post with the sign reading “Keep Out Experiment in Progress” from a gravitational wave experimental facility, stood out for the reason to post today.

We are adding a few more elements to this year’s version of Open Education Week, one of them being our interest in the Fediverse and Mastodon in particular being a viable social media space for open educators — of course there are many and you can expect a few sessions this year taking on the “Where do we go” to connect question.

The Experiment

The OE Week website is hosted using WordPress and we have an add-on / plugin that turns the blog into its own account in Mastodon. This means every news post we write can be published on the fediverse like other people regularly write/share there. But I needed to write a new news story to test this out.

If you are in Mastodon, you can search for Open Education Week’s presence there by searching for @sharing — now a fediverse account of its own that anyone can follow to see our latest updates. But the real functionality is that we are testing naother new plugin so that ll the events submitted to the calendar will also be published to Mastodon under mthe account above.

To test that its working, I am thus tasked myself to write a quick news post to see if it flows outward. That’s the experiment!

Look for more details later this week on the new approach we are using for collecting open assets aka resources.


Feature Image: Keep Out Experiment In Progress — LIGO Gravitational Waves flickr photo by jurvetson shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license.

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