The #OEAwards25 nomination closes on July 21

Dig deep – nominate the unexpected, unusual #openeducation people & projects … e.g. this #OEAward23 winner

🏅 >> Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) in Open Educational Resources (OER) << from University of Southern Queensland, #Australia

🔗 https://twp.ai/SA8E3u

🌱 Sow the seed today! https://twp.ai/NTSyrq

#DigDeep #ExcellenceInDiversity #OEAwards #OEAwardWinners #OpenEducation #OER #EduSky #OpenPed #EdTech

Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) in Open Educational Resources (OER)

Content branded as ‘open access’ or ‘freely available’ may give the impression that OER are universally accessible. However, many users still face barriers to access, whether they be technological or representational. There is a myth that since OER are public, they are automatically accessible.

Open Education Awards for Excellence
... which leads me (along with some other reasons) to question #openacess, #openped, #openedu, #open -ness in general. It seems we focus almost exclusively on the access angle, and less on the creation side. Sure, in most cases more access is A Good Thing™. But there are also times when it leads to self-censorship and mistrust. And then there are the costs to the creators and the expectations that unprivileged people can just give away their labour. Such expectations are elitist and exploitive.
One thing I miss from Twitter/Tweetdeck is my boolean search-based columns for Matching: like this one "#OER16 OR #opened15 OR #opened16 OR #OER OR #OpenPed OR #OEP OR #OER17"