The future isn’t what it used to be #OER24

The future isn’t what it used to be was one of the keynotes presented at the OER24 conference in Cork, Ireland, 28 March 2024, given by Dr Catherine Cronin and Professor Laura Czerniewicz. It was about the problems facing the open education movement and challenged the audience to create a better future "We have adapted the “manifesto for higher education for good” (Czerniewicz & Cronin, 2023) as a framing device". They wrote a paper of their talk, which is embedded in this blog post https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2024/03/oer24-the-future-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/
The recording of their keynote is here (the keynote starts at 23 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/live/d_SjjZYiTE8?si=Bl1-yphwWLg3snyr
The open-access book cited above is :
Czerniewicz, L. & Cronin, C. (Eds). (2023). Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. OpenBook. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363 The framework they refer to is:
- Name and analyse the troubles of HE [Higher Education]
- Challenge assumptions and resist hegemonies
- Make claims for just, humane, and globally sustainable HE
- Courageously imagine and share fresh possibilities
- Make positive changes, here and now
BTW the book has a chapter discussing data literacies, but not information literacy, sad to say.
Photo by Sheila Webber: past and future, Pleasaunce, April 2024