Open Education Week 2022: Retrospective
OE WEEK 2022 (March 7 - 11)
Open Education Week was launched in 2012 by Open Education Global as a collaborative, community-built open forum. Every year OE Week raises awareness and highlights innovative open education successes worldwide. OE Week provides practitioners, educators, and students with an opportunity to build a greater understanding of open educational practices and be inspired by the wonderful work being developed by the community around the world.
Learning Technology Coaches and Open Education Week
Learning Technology Coaches (LTCs) contributed to open education by investigating, introducing, and promoting freeware and open-source technologies.
To participate in OE Week 2022 and raise awareness about the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning, LTCs hosted three events: Zero Textbook Cost Programs, Free Technologies in Education, Open-source H5P Objects.
Open Education Events
In this session, Learning Technology Coaches focused on the value of OER for students and instructors and provided an overview of the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs and initiatives. A guest speaker, Dr. Erika Merschrod (Department of Chemistry, MUN) provided insight into using OER in her teaching by illustrating how a free online textbook integrated in a Brightspace course site can enhance teaching and learning experiences.
In this session, Learning Technology Coaches focused on the educational value and use of open-source/free technologies in post-secondary classrooms and demonstrated a variety of such tools. A guest speaker, Dr. David Churchill (Department of Computer Science, MUN) provided an example and discussed the benefits of using a free, open-source broadcasting platform in remote or online teaching.
In this session, Learning Technology Coaches introduced the H5P technology and demonstrated some examples of interactive learning objects that can be created using H5P tools for a variety of academic disciplines. Participants of the workshops had an opportunity to view and test the demonstrated activities from the perspective of learners.