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SUMMARY:Product Showcase: How Pressbooks Supports the Open Education Journey
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE: https://pressbooks.com/pressbooks-product-showcase/#join_our_sessions \nAre you exploring ways to enhance or expand your institution’s creation and use of open educational resources (OER)? Join this session to learn how Pressbooks supports institutions at each stage of the open education journey. We’ll provide a helpful overview of Pressbooks’ digital publishing platform and common use cases\, including: \n\nCreating\, finding\, and adapting OER content\nEnabling open pedagogy and student publishing\nDeveloping handbooks and training materials\nDifferent Pressbooks deployment models\n\nWhether you’re just getting started or leading a mature open education program\, Pressbooks can help you build capability\, manageability\, and sustainability. \nREGISTER HERE: https://pressbooks.com/pressbooks-product-showcase/#join_our_sessions
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/how-pressbooks-supports-the-open-education-journey/
LOCATION:Pressbooks\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Education Resources
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SUMMARY:Demo and Inside Look at OER102 MOOC- Enhancing education through open opportunities (OEWeek Live!)
DESCRIPTION:In this pre-Open Education Week episode of our live streamed sessions\, we welcome into the studio Paola Corti and Luca Tantimonaco from Politecnico di Milano. We will see a tour of the new MOOC from Polimi Open Knowledge  “Enhancing education through open opportunities” shared under a CC-BY license. \nThis open course is even more open as all of the content and assets are openly licensed but also the tools used to create the course\, including video editing\, were open source tools. You will learn not only how this is done\, but how to make use of the source materials provided for the MOOC published openly to Zenodo. \nLearn more: \n\nEnhancing education through open opportunities (OER102) https://www.pok.polimi.it/course/view.php?id=158   \nCourse Videos (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmKUwJ0KJQnWVwAZm2J4Q-Ieg9Wf4Ap5N \nAnnouncement in OEG Connect https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/7248 \nMOOC Materials (Zenodo) https://zenodo.org/records/14198499\nLibre Office (used for organzing documents and presentation graphics) https://www.libreoffice.org/\nOpenShot Video Editor https://www.openshot.org/\nPolimi Open Knowledge (140+ MOOCs) https://www.libreoffice.org/\nOER 101: Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching (first MOOC)\n\nWatch the demo live and ask questions via chat or watch the recording later
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/oer102-mooc/
LOCATION:Politecnico di Milano\, Milano\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Open Education Resources,Open Educational Practices,Open Source Platforms,Tools and Techniques
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SUMMARY:WikiAfrica Hour – De-colonising knowledge on Wikipedia
DESCRIPTION:What do we mean by decolonising knowledge? Why is it essential to document this on Wikimedia projects? What established knowledge decolonisation initiatives are inside (and even outside) the Wikimedia movement that we should pay attention to? How can we improve existing initiatives and encourage others to do the same? \nThis month on Wiki Africa Hour\, we’re doing a deep dive into decolonising knowledge with guest host Achal Prabhala\, who will lead a panel experienced in disrupting the information landscape. \nGuests include: \n\nIolanda Pensa: a wikipedian and researcher. She has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006\, she organized in 2016 “Wikimania Esino Lario”\, she is chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee\, former chair and now national coordinator for GLAMs of Wikimedia Italia\, scientific director of WikiAfrica from 2007 until 2011 and co-founder of Wiki in Africa. co-founder of De-colonising knowledge on wikipedia in Switzerland.\nAsuru Lutherking Petercan: a research assistant in architectural history and heritage preservation. Advocating for free knowledge in Nigeria\, advocating for policy change and creating awareness in the built environment and beyond about heritage and historic architectural archives\, contributing to open source platforms\, training more professionals to contribute and also starting an architectural heritage community to join in the contribution of Heritage architecture and GLAM related knowledge in Nigeria.\nSandra Schmitt Soster: Sandra Soster is the GLAM and Culture Manager of Wiki Movimento Brasil since 2022. She holds a PhD degree of Architecture and Urbanism by University of São Paulo (USP).\nChantal Edie Ntube: an artist whose art representation extends beyond her visual practice as a photographer and writer. Chantal has a BSC in History\, a Masters I in Political Sciences\, and an HND in HSC from Reading in the UK.\n\nWikiAfrica Hour: \nWiki In Africa’s WikiAfrica Hour is a monthly live discussion with open movement advocates from around the world. The conversations discuss the WikiAfrica movement’s and Wikimedia activities across Africa and shares insight for anyone (from Africa and beyond) into the global Wikimedia movement.
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/wikiafrica-hour-de-colonising-knowledge-on-wikipedia/
LOCATION:Online from Multiple Locations
CATEGORIES:Equity and Access,Social Justice,z--- Other
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SUMMARY:Open Ed Live
DESCRIPTION:Open Ed Live is a free online event aimed at bringing higher ed faculty\, librarians\, instructional designers\, and others with related responsibilities or interests together to explore the boundless opportunities of open education. It consists of three half-day\, virtual events with drop-in sessions for extended conversation on key topics. \nHosted by the Division of Digital Learning and UCF Libraries of the University of Central Florida\, along with members of the UCF Bookstore\, Office of the Provost of Academic Affairs\, and teaching faculty. \nSpeakers representing all levels of colleges and universities will present informational sessions\, participate in panel discussions\, and lead interactive workshops for attendees. \nYou’ll receive actionable advice on how to best incorporate open educational resources and practices into courses. \nThis second annual event acts as a prelude to Open Education Week which takes place March 3-7\, 2025. Open Education Week is an annual\, global celebration where educators can actively share and learn about the latest achievements in open education.
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/open-ed-live/2025-02-26/
LOCATION: University of Central Florida\, 4000 Central Florida Blvd\, Orlando\, FL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Digital Skills,Open Education Resources,Open Educational Practices,Tools and Techniques
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SUMMARY:Data Reuse Days 2025 (WikiData)
DESCRIPTION:The Data Reuse Days 2025 is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata’s data to build interesting applications and tools. It aims to bring together data reusers and editors to learn from each other and discover cool Wikidata-powered applications. We will also cover technical aspects of Wikidata and share research and ideas for the future of reusing Wikidata’s data. \nThe event is taking place online\, we will have sessions taking place during periods of 2 hours through 8 days: from February 18 to 27\, 2025. Find the schedule below on this page. The sessions take place in English\, and are open to everyone interested in the topic of data reuse. You have 3 options to watch the sessions: \n\nAttend live in the Jitsi room: you’ll be able to interact with the speakers and other participants. The unique Jitsi link will be added to the Event details shortly before the event\, and visible to people who have registered. Note: if you join the Jitsi room\, please be aware that we will be recording the call and broadcasting it live on Youtube.\nWatch the livestream of the sessions on Youtube: great option if your connection or device doesn’t allow Jitsi\, or if you don’t want to appear on the videos. The links will be added in the table below for each session shortly before the event.\nWatch the replay videos later on Youtube or Wikimedia Commons: to catch up in case you missed the live transmission\, The links will be added in the table below for each session
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/data-reuse-days-2025-wikidata/2025-02-26/
LOCATION:Online from Multiple Locations
CATEGORIES:Digital Skills,Open Data,Open Education Resources
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