Education is at the heart of making the world a better place. Education has always needed technology, but the technology landscape is getting more and more complex. Imagine if you had to license pencils or paper to use in schools, or be forced to use specific paper from one company so that they co…
As the Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer in Barcelona, Francesca Bria is at the heart of the open strategies being employed in this ambitious "Smart City", including the impressive Decode project decodeproject.eu. I met up with Francesca in the beautiful Barcelona city buildings for a chat about what the city are doing, and how it relates to open technology and education.
On my recent trip to the Phillipines for a Moodle conference, I recorded this interview with Dr Melinda Bandalaria (or Mel to her friends). Melinda is a very accessible person doing some very important work in the Phillipines. Not only is she the Chancellor of the University of the Phillipines Open University (UPOU) but she is also the President of the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU). I managed to sneak Mel away from the conference lunch to have a chat about open education.
While in Galway, Ireland, I caught up with my old friend Paul Stacey, who is doing excellent work as the CEO of the Open Education Consortium, and we had a quick chat about Open Education in general.
The beginning! On this episode hear snippets recorded on a recent trip including:workshops at Binus University in Jakarta, IndonesiaOER Global 19 in Dublin Ireland, and MoodleMoot IEUK19 in Manchester, UK
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