My feet have just touched the ground after OER14 conference in Newcastle - 'Building Communities of Open Practice' .
Not all members of the SIG could be there so I offer a few personal reflections (maybe others who attended will share their memorable moments as well?) .
After a superb student welcome, Catherin Ngugi kicked off with a keynore focussing on her work in OER Africa. Her work is focussed on HE and institutions and she was describing a context where the prohibitive cost of text books has the perverse effect of pushing more of the teaching into the formal lecture. She gave examples of how collaborativey produced OERs were beginning to widen pedagogical approached.
Still in Africa I, was fascinated to join a workshop on Day 2 where the two universities in Leicester were teaming up with colleagues in Gondar Ethiopia to create video based OERs for medical training.
Closer to home I enjoyed the energy from Manchester based 'Voice Box' who shared their user-generated video content created by community learners who were in recovery from drink and substance abuse.
Loads of more stuff to read (and pictures of some of the interactive activities) at www.oer14.org
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