The Future isn’t what it used to be: Open Education at a Crossroads OER24 keynote resources3/4/2024 At the recent OER24 conference in Cork, Ireland, Catherine Cronin and I had the great honour of giving a joint keynote, in the company of the other keynoter, the inimitable Rajiv Jhangiani. In addition, we were inspired by the range and depth of work shared by so many in the international open education community who presented and participated in the conference. We have many thoughts and reflections mulling away. For now, we are sharing resources from our keynote, The Future isn’t what it used to be: Open Education at a Crossroads. Slides: We presented the keynote using a slide deck with few words, informative images, and some wonderful abstract and alternative visuals (we are not boasting, thanks go to the excellent artists). The slides are at https://bit.ly/oer24-crossroads. Keynote essay: We also wrote up the keynote as an essay. It is not quite a transcript as it is halfway between talking and writing, including all of the references we used. You can find it here. Video recording: Thanks to the conference organisers, ALT and Munster Technological University, the keynotes were also recorded. Ours can be accessed here (our talk starts at 23:30). Resource list: During our talk, we linked to a list of critical tech organisations and initiatives which we have been keeping. We thought this might be useful to others, so have created a shared and editable spreadsheet of critical tech organisations and initiatives here, which everyone is invited to use and/or add to. Participant responses: Finally, during our keynote, we asked everyone in the room two questions. Near the start of our keynote, we asked: “What do you think of when you hear “open education?”. The responses from participants are here, in the form of a word cloud –– largely positive and hopeful words. Q1: What do you think of when you hear “open education”? Q2: What could we do right now?
The second question we posed, right at the end of our talk, was: “What could we, as this community – this conference group – do right now?”. With just a few minutes to collect responses, it was encouraging to receive over 90 immediate suggestions. We have clustered these suggestions into the following eight themes, for ease of sharing:
1. Take action, make plans
7. Challenge existing power structures; work towards justice
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AuthorI am a professor at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, interested in the digitally-mediated changes in society and specifically in higher education, largely through an inequality lens Archives
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