Category: Event
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Encouraging autonomy
In today’s entry to the 23 good reasons for Open Education series, Paul Stacey discusses autonomy. Paul Stacey, from Canada, has taken several key roles in the promotion of Open Education over the years and is today an independent researcher and consultant. Paul’s main message could be “At a time of high interest in sovereignty,…
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Respond fast to tech challenges
In today’s entry to the 23 good reasons for Open Education series, Belén García-Manrubia tells us how and why Open Educational Practices are able to respond faster to the challenges of fast-changing technologies. As Belén puts it: “Only in this way can we move towards a more agile, inclusive and future-proof education system.”. Belén is…
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Access to varied knowledge
In today’s entry to the 23 good reasons for Open Education series, Sophie Depoterre and Yves Deville revisit the words “variety” and “wealth” in order to convince us that Open Education achieves just that. Sophie and Yves run the OER programs at UC Louvain, in Belgium, recognized as one of the pioneering sites for OER…
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Promote quality
In today’s entry to the 23 good reasons for open education series, Magdalena Spaude gives us five good reasons for which OER improve quality: they serve as inspiration, they can be customized, they enable feedback, they promote cooperation and are sustainable. Magdalena works in the Prorectorate for Teaching and Studies at the University of Cologne…
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Translation and localisation
In today’s entry to the 23 good reasons for Open Education series, Glenda Cox discusses the important topic of localisation within the context of open education. The topic is particularly meaningful when you adopt a global perspective and look at education from a variety of points of vie
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23 good reasons… to adopt open education
EUniWell, with the UNESCO Chair RELIA and the UNITWIN-UNOE network, participates to the Open Education Week 2025, (and even Month). Join us from March 3rd to discover every day a new reason to adopt open education…
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Launch of UNOE
Moderator: Colin de la Higuera, UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence (RELIA) at Nantes University Inauguration by Carine Bernault, President of Nantes University Speech by Ms Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO Speech by Mr Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General for Communication at UNESCO Pre-recorded speeches by other network rectors
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International Staff Week on Open Education
Register now for the International Staff Week dedicated to Open Education at Nantes Université, France, from 4-8 December 2023.
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Open Education Global in-person congress at Nantes Université
The Open Education Global congress, co-hosted by Open Education Global and Nantes Université, will take place from 23-25 May 2022 in Nantes, at the Cité des congrès. This event is focused on presenting existing solutions and practices that inform and guide the implementation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation.