MCC Daily Tribune
Celebrate Open Education Week- Day One
Founded in 2013 by the Open Education Consortium, the goal of Open Education Week (March 4-8) is to raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. Open Education Week has become one the most foremost global events recognizing high achievement and excellence in open education.
*Day one highlights*-
Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.
The idea of free and open sharing in education is not new. In fact, sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built.
Open is key; open allows not just access, but the freedom to modify and use materials, information and networks so education can be personalized to individual users or woven together in new ways for diverse audiences, large and small.
Open Education events happening this week:
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) will hold five 45-minute webinars, one per day at 3pm, where faculty in a specific discipline (Sociology, Administration of Justice, English, Philosophy, and Math) will discuss the intricacies of teaching OER in that subject. Register here.
- Lawrence Lessig, founding board member of Creative Commons, will present "On the Obligation of Scholars" at SUNY Geneseo on Wednesday, March 6th at 7:30pm. More information and registration is here.
- OER Convening @ Buffalo State on Saturday, March 9th. Join faculty and supporters from around SUNY in presentations and discussion related to OER development and sustainability. Agenda and registration can be found here.
Want to know more about "open"? Contact Michelle Beechey (mbeechey@monroecc.edu).
Michelle Beechey
Library
03/04/2019