I was very excited to see that the Resolution in support of #OER proposed by our campus committee has been featured at the top of the Faculty Senate meeting overview written up in our university newsletter this week!
I was very excited to see that the Resolution in support of #OER proposed by our campus committee has been featured at the top of the Faculty Senate meeting overview written up in our university newsletter this week!
I am happy to announce the open call for peer reviewers for the second edition of The #OER Starter Kit!
This has been a long time coming, and I'm excited to get feedback for the final revisions to the book before its publication later this year.
To express interest in serving as a peer reviewer, complete our Peer Review Interest Form: https://forms.gle/EMqwQE7rNxfLnhX37
The call for reviewers will close on Friday, February 13.
Free hybrid #Quarto workshops this week @unibibkoeln and on Zoom:
**Thursday 22 January**
10.00 – 11.30 Intro to Quarto – Papers and Slides
14.00 – 15.30 Themes, templates, pandoc – Style your Quarto
16.00 – 17.30 ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas: Quarto/RMarkdown for reproducible research and academic writing
**Friday 23 January**
10.00 – 12.30 Quarto for teaching and Open Educational Resources
14.00 – 16.00 Using Quarto with #git
Registration and detailed schedule: https://gschwier.pages.git.nrw/quartoworkshop2026/
Artwork CC BY Allison Horst from the “Hello, Quarto” keynote by Julia Lowndes and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, first presented at the #RStudio Conference 2022.
#ReproducibiliTea #academia #Rstats #OpenScience #OER #OpenEducation #HigherEd
Next week, #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas in Cologne is organising a two-day extravaganza of Quarto workshops and talks: https://gschwier.pages.git.nrw/quartoworkshop2026/
We are making online attendance possible for the world to join in the fun! Online and on-site @unibibkoeln registration is possible via our homepage.
#Quarto is a modern open-source publishing system that turns plain text and code into polished papers, slides, websites, books, and teaching materials. It unifies writing and computation, supports seamless reproducible workflows, and bridges the gap between publishing your research and reusing the same transparent analyses in notebooks for teaching.
#reproducibility #OpenScience #OpenEducation #HigherEd #academia
Free hybrid #Quarto workshops this week @unibibkoeln and on Zoom:
**Thursday 22 January**
10.00 – 11.30 Intro to Quarto – Papers and Slides
14.00 – 15.30 Themes, templates, pandoc – Style your Quarto
16.00 – 17.30 ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas: Quarto/RMarkdown for reproducible research and academic writing
**Friday 23 January**
10.00 – 12.30 Quarto for teaching and Open Educational Resources
14.00 – 16.00 Using Quarto with #git
Registration and detailed schedule: https://gschwier.pages.git.nrw/quartoworkshop2026/
Artwork CC BY Allison Horst from the “Hello, Quarto” keynote by Julia Lowndes and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, first presented at the #RStudio Conference 2022.
#ReproducibiliTea #academia #Rstats #OpenScience #OER #OpenEducation #HigherEd
I can speak a tad more freely on the demise of the OER Foundation, now that I'm unemployed. I've published a truth to power blog post on what happened. I hope this experience is not the 'canary in the coal mine' for #OER and #OpenEducation initiatives worldwide. https://openeducation.nz/?p=55
I create my teaching materials as #OER with #EmacsReveal [1]. For my course on IT Systems [2] in summer term 2025, I switched to #Kokoro [3] as #TextToSpeech model, and students generally liked the quality (see README of emacs-reveal for evaluation results). Teaching resources are video-like, interactive HTML presentations with audio, generated from #OrgMode text files using GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
This holiday season, I found the time to release #EmacsReveal 9.54.0, which includes the settings I used for IT Systems. I also updated the #TTS Howto [4] to use Kokoro.
Feel free to reuse my course materials and emacs-reveal! All the best for 2026!
[1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/
[2] https://oer.gitlab.io/oer-courses/it-systems/
[3] https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
[4] https://oer.gitlab.io/emacs-reveal-howto/tts-howto.html
#Emacs #Org #RevealJS #CICD #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Education
I can speak a tad more freely on the demise of the OER Foundation, now that I'm unemployed. I've published a truth to power blog post on what happened. I hope this experience is not the 'canary in the coal mine' for #OER and #OpenEducation initiatives worldwide. https://openeducation.nz/?p=55
Nachlese zum 39c3 : FSFW-Schulstick auf der Basis von Linux. Habe ihn dort im Workshop ausprobiert - ich fand ihn gut, die Kinder sichtlich auch. Hier die Infos von:
@schulstick dresden.network
"Der Schulstick ist ein Linux Live-USB-Stick für Schüler:innen voller Freier Software FLOSS und derzeit in Grundschule und Gymnasium im Einsatz. Die aktuelle Portal-App-Entwicklung voll OER ist gefördert durch das Sächsische Kultusministerium."
Nachlese zum 39c3 : FSFW-Schulstick auf der Basis von Linux. Habe ihn dort im Workshop ausprobiert - ich fand ihn gut, die Kinder sichtlich auch. Hier die Infos von:
@schulstick dresden.network
"Der Schulstick ist ein Linux Live-USB-Stick für Schüler:innen voller Freier Software FLOSS und derzeit in Grundschule und Gymnasium im Einsatz. Die aktuelle Portal-App-Entwicklung voll OER ist gefördert durch das Sächsische Kultusministerium."
I create my teaching materials as #OER with #EmacsReveal [1]. For my course on IT Systems [2] in summer term 2025, I switched to #Kokoro [3] as #TextToSpeech model, and students generally liked the quality (see README of emacs-reveal for evaluation results). Teaching resources are video-like, interactive HTML presentations with audio, generated from #OrgMode text files using GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
This holiday season, I found the time to release #EmacsReveal 9.54.0, which includes the settings I used for IT Systems. I also updated the #TTS Howto [4] to use Kokoro.
Feel free to reuse my course materials and emacs-reveal! All the best for 2026!
[1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/
[2] https://oer.gitlab.io/oer-courses/it-systems/
[3] https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
[4] https://oer.gitlab.io/emacs-reveal-howto/tts-howto.html
#Emacs #Org #RevealJS #CICD #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Education
As the former Managing Director of the OER Foundation, I am saddened to share that our mission to widen access to educational opportunity around the world through the implementation of the UNESCO #OER Recommendation will come to an end, as the Foundation is being disestablished.
For more information see: https://openeducation.nz/
@oemb1905
> What happened?
It's explained in the post 'Terminating OER Foundation Services';
This is really disturbing news! The OER Foundation does world-leading work. Demonstrating digital tech for education that respects learners' and teachers' software freedoms, and cultural freedoms. This disestablishment seems to have been done in a calculated way, to damage that mission.
We must find a way to keep OERF alive! How can I help?
As the former Managing Director of the OER Foundation, I am saddened to share that our mission to widen access to educational opportunity around the world through the implementation of the UNESCO #OER Recommendation will come to an end, as the Foundation is being disestablished.
For more information see: https://openeducation.nz/
Das Jahr geht rasant zu Ende, aber wir stehen bereits mit einigen tollen Ideen in den Startlöchern für ✨ 2026. Mitte Januar gehen z.B. unsere 🚀 Workshops rund um #OER und #KI weiter und das nächste 🤝 Netzwerktreffen KI in der offenen Hochschullehre steht auch schon an. Alle Infos und Anmeldung hier 👉 https://www.twillo.de/veranstaltungen/
#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik
Das Jahr geht rasant zu Ende, aber wir stehen bereits mit einigen tollen Ideen in den Startlöchern für ✨ 2026. Mitte Januar gehen z.B. unsere 🚀 Workshops rund um #OER und #KI weiter und das nächste 🤝 Netzwerktreffen KI in der offenen Hochschullehre steht auch schon an. Alle Infos und Anmeldung hier 👉 https://www.twillo.de/veranstaltungen/
#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik
In der digitalen Hochschulwelt öffnen sich im Dezember täglich neue Adventskalendertürchen voller praktischer Impulse zu #KI, #VR, #OER oder auch #Moodle.
In einem Blogbeitrag auf https://e-teaching.org haben wir acht spannende Adventskalender vorgestellt und Gerüchten zufolge versteckt sich sogar ein e-teaching.org-Beitrag hinter einem der Türchen...
Den vollständigen Überblick mit allen Links gibt es hier: https://www.e-teaching.org/news/eteaching_blog/e-learning-adventskalender-2025
Mareike Kholin & Robin Rothe (https://www.die-bonn.de/) befassen sich in ihrer Session „Der steinige Weg zur offenen Praxis: Wie #OER-Schulungen in der Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung Hürden abbauen“ mit den Widerständen und Ängsten von Lehrenden bei der partizipativen Anwendung digitaler Technologien und Inhalte. Die Ansätze dazu diskutieren sie im Rahmen ihrer Evaluation zu einem Beratungskonzept. #vBIB #vBIB25
