I'm excited to announce that this free 4-week course is finally available on OpenLearn: "Supporting climate action through digital education"! Thanks to all the co-authors, Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman & Kathy Chandler, who coordinated this and the Institute of Educational Technology, the OU & The Open University. Sign up:

If you took part in the H818 conference while studying the MAODE, this is a similar event and you're very welcome to join us and support this year's cohort

Don't miss Institute of Educational Technology, the OU Maria Aristeidou's #CALRG session "From further education to higher education and the job market: using open educational resources to support transitions, wellbeing, and skills." #OER Recording out now! youtu.be/4vwKEG47df0

Thanks OpenLearn for your new free #Climate Education course; it's really making me think, and I'm looking forward to my next session 🧑‍🎓 open.edu/openlearn/educ…

Are you interested in develop your Online Teaching skills? We have a suite of short courses covering #Accessibility, #Inclusion, #MentalHealth and more key skills related to #OnlineTeaching. Course start date: 11 Mar 2024 Explore our IET-led courses below in this thread 🧵1/7

I'm excited to be one of the main speakers at this well-attended event - over 120 participants! My talk focuses on the many applications and benefits of citizen science across domains. I'm delighted to see that #citizenscience in Greece is flourishing and developing rapidly!

This is likely to be of interest to anyone studying, or planning to study, H890: Research and scholarship in digital education

Excited to share our insights from our LEARN CitSci work on #Zooniverse and young people today at the #ECSA2024 conference #citizenscience Prof. Christothea Herodotou Lucy Robinson Grant Miller Heidi Ballard Institute of Educational Technology, the OU

Happy faces from the Citizen Science and University Working Group at the #ECSA2024 Conference Marketplace at the Natural History Museum of Vienna! If you're still around join us for an interactive poster activity #citizenscience

Free places on credit-bearing microcredentials for UK adults living in Scotland. Including 'Teacher development: embedding mental health in the curriculum'

Tomorrow! If you're thinking of studying the OU's 'H890 Research and scholarship in digital education' postgrad course, this will give you an idea of what to expect

Calling all WELS Postgraduate Research students - take a first look a new @OU_WELS research study all about YOU: open.ac.uk/blogs/welspgr/… We have a unique opportunity to have our voices heard, more info on how you can get involved will be available very soon. Inma Alvarez 🐦 azumahcarol 🐦

Happy birthday to us! Sadly, there’s no cake, but today we’re still celebrating 55 years since the OU was established by Royal Charter. Huge thanks to all members of the #OUfamily – we wouldn’t be here without you! #OUCharterDay

Inviting paper submissions to a special track on #citizenscience and #socialgood see sites.google.com/view/cs4good/ Dates: May 17th, 2024 -> Notification of acceptance: July 8th, 2024 -> Camera Ready submission: July 19th, 2024 #GoodIT2024, Bremen, Germany. #ecsa #csa #citizeninquiry

Take part in our #cirizenscience project about #ecoanxiety share your thoughts about environmental concerns and if you can, take action! es Maria Aristeidou Institute of Educational Technology, the OU Dr Carina Girvan Prof Manolis Mavrikis Imelda Haran Dr Duygu Bektik (Simsek) Eric Olaf Stiner Dr. Feiran Zhang Julia Lorke Sarah West BBC Springwatch

Our study on #collaboration and #care in #climate education is now live. We explore the role of education and ed tech in the climate emergency and reflect on developing the associated postgraduate course 🔗 bit.ly/4cON2h6 Link to the study: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cu…

Check out our European Citizen Science Association working group report on #CitizenScience and universities - zenodo.org/records/138068… Learn about our working group members, our joint activities and how we are supporting citizen science in university settings 🌟💪

Excited to kick off this blog series on the work of European Citizen Science Association Citizen Science & Universities working group! Check it out! Thank you @eucitsciproject for your support, and as always to my co-chair Maria Aristeidou #CitizenScience #HigherEd #ScienceEngagement