Day 3 of #OEWeek26 !!
Don't miss today's OEWeek Live! Together in Story: A Conversation Among Open Storymakers
Join the creators of the award‑winning open picture book Together, funded by GO‑GN, alongside a colleague from Curious Learning, for a friendly conversation among storymakers.
#Today ... March 4, 2026 @ 5:00 pm UTC
join in the conversation –> https://twp.ai/NTaeuv
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Don't miss today's OEWeek Live! Beyond ChatGPT: GenAI in Action
Host Alan Levine is joined by Anna Mills, Yasin Dahi, Muriel Peguret and Mirela Cherciov.
#Today ... March 3, 2026 @ 5:00 pm UTC
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Another good discussion for Open Education Week. This time, I am talking to Dr Shikha Raturi from the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, to discuss OER in the Pacific #OpenEducationWeek #OEWeek2025 #OpenEducation #OER
Access the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZMInCapnr4
Day 4 of #OpenEducationWeek 2025! Highlighting courses for #agriculture: https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/
🌾 #QGIS for Precision Agriculture
💧 Enhancing Water Productivity with WaPOR #WaPlugin in QGIS
🌐 #GEE for Agrohydrological Applications
🚁 Processing Drone Images with #WebODM @OpenDroneMap
📱 Field Surveys with @merginmaps
As part of Open Education Week I was privileged to interview Gino Fransman from Nelson Mandela University. In this interview, he discusses the exceptional Open Education Influencers (OEIs) project, which empowers students to advocate for and engage with OER.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhBHbUlULM
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Day 3 of #OpenEducationWeek 2025! Highlighting #QGIS courses for #hydrology: https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/
💧Hydrological Analysis with PCRaster Tools plugin
🔧Programming for Geospatial Hydrological Applications
🏞️Workshop QGIS for Hydrological Applications
📖QGIS Advanced Tutorials
🌏GIS Training for Hydrogeological Applications
QGIS for Hydrological Applications
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Celebrate Open Education Week 2025!🎉
Today's highlight from GIS OpenCourseWare: Point Cloud Processing with QGIS & PDAL Wrench. Learn to work with point cloud data and automate workflows for faster, efficient processing. 🚀 #OpenEducationWeek #OEWeek2025 #GIS #QGIS #PointCloud #PDAL
Last year I had a brief keynote (here is the blog that I wrote about it) at TU Delft Library during Open Education Week. In the meantime I started as Director General of KB | The National Library. There is much that I learned about us as National Library. It is a wonderful place to be and to work for. And how do I stand in the things I put forward one year ago? Open because knowledge needs to flow Well it will not come as a surprise that I still plea for an open world. Where it is also true that “our levels of openness and empathy are more likely to grow when we feel secure” (see the Trends Shaping Education report from OECD). And when we do not feel secure or perhaps doubt what might happen when opening up our research data, scientific results or educational resources, we build digital fences. And yes it is true that we should not be too naïve, but it is also true that knowledge should flow as much as possible, to be able to solve great challenges of this time. We need critically thinking citizens I read the key findings of the High-level Conference about the Perspectives of Academic Freedom (see this report), where the link is made between academic freedom, democracy and competitiveness. “Universities, policy makers and civil society must work together to ensure that higher education remains a space for free thought & democratic engagement”. And at the same page I read about the Working Group for the European Space for Citizenship Education (ESCE: meeting for the first time on 17 and 18 February 2025). Focus of this meeting was on (1) Codification of principles of quality citizenship education, (2) Accountability and quality assurance and (3) Cooperation, laying the groundwork for a more engaged and cohesive European society. The ESCE ensures that Europe’s democratic future is built on a solid foundation of informal, engaged and critically thinking citizens. Open Education can help - all necessary skills complement each other And that is, for me, the logical connection between the plea for open & education. It is, I should say surely now, education that can help. “To support effective listening and the negotiation of different world views”, as the OECD report states. To have education that fosters “a culture of responsible digital citizenship that balances freedom of expression with the need for accurate and respectful discourse”. And that is also important for us libraries. Where education should address “both set of skills (numeracy, literacy ánd critical thinking, media literacy) in a way that complements rather than compromises one for the other. The Union of Skills In the consultation to develop a Union of Skills, it is stated that we lack skills in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) fields. On 5 February 2025 Neth-ER together with the Dutch MBO Council, UNL and the VH (all tertiary education) organised a workshop (in Dutch) on the Union of Skills. The participants concluded that both professional and personal competences are very important. The workshop also connected to life-long learning.
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