Category: Event
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“Sharing is a challenge”: the Series Comes to an End, the Sharing Continues
As Open Education Month draws to a close, the series “Sharing is a Challenge” comes to an end. A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible — authors, translators, proofreaders and partners.The 14 male and 16 female authors from 15 countries have written 17 articles in 6 languages: proof that sharing is complex,…
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Potential Serendipity over Expectations of Gratitude
Alan Levine is one of the most active advocates in the open world. Every day, he manages to share online a website, an initiative or an idea that advances the open movement somewhere in the world. In this article, he draws on his own experiences to explain why it is not wise to organise gratitude,…
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Open Educational Resources: Is sharing really time-consuming?
A fine group of authors has come together to address this significant challenge: that producing OER takes too long. Sophie Depoterre, José-Miguel Escobar-Zuniga, Paul Lyonnaz and Nadia Villeneuve (Leuven, Belgium; Sherbrooke, Canada; Nantes, France; and Laval, Canada). Their conclusion is realistic: yes, it takes time to design an OER! But that time is ‘amortised’ by…
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How authors can make their OERs “discoverable”
Discoverability… Now that’s a rather strange word. The starting point for our ‘discoverability’ challenge was the realisation that it’s very difficult to ask someone to share something if, for one reason or another, the course you’re sharing is hidden from view. In the so-called Global North, the challenge becomes doing things properly, optimising access to…
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From obligation to recognition in open education
Are we sometimes expected to share? Is it sometimes counterproductive to force people to share? Answering these complex questions is the challenge taken up by Luc Massou (University of Lorraine, France), who draws on his experience at the French Ministry of Higher Education.
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Between openness and responsibility: how to make good use of Open Educational Resources
Virginia Rodés and Regina Motz (both from Uruguay, although Virginia is now employed by the Institute for the Future of Education and lives and works in Spain) examine the potential misuse of OER. Their analysis, based on very recent findings, shows above all that simply sharing is not enough. For things to go smoothly, one…
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Encouraging sharing relies on a systemic and holistic approach
Souhad Shlaka examines the issue of competition through the lens of her own experience as a lecturer and researcher at Mohammed V University (Morocco). The question raised was that of competition being imposed as a model of governance: how do we respond in order to replace it with a different approach, that of cooperation?
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A journey into the hurdle of complexity
Barbara Class and Henrietta Carbonel from UniDistance Switzerland, and Mathilde Panes from the University of Teacher Education of the Canton of Vaud, rose to the challenge posed by the technical complexities of sharing. They succeeded in explaining to us why these technical issues are, above all, conceptual issues. And they did so without neglecting to…
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A community through sharing
Zoltan Lantos is a lecturer and researcher at Semmelweis University in Hungary. His story is one shared by many of his colleagues: it begins with a decision to share resources that initially seemed logical, then sees those resources gradually come to life, and ends with a sense of wonder at how they evolve in response…
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Who Owns AI-Generated Content?
Perhaps the most famous sharer of all time is Robin Hood. But he was also an outlaw. So it’s quite normal that we should all be concerned about sharing today. What is the reality? When do I have the right to share? And above all… what changes with AI? These are the questions addressed by…
