This week two of my favourite annual initiatives coincide: It’s Open Education Week, from 2-6 March, celebrating all things open in Education AND it’s also International Women’s Day on 8 March. Perfect timing to celebrate all things (and people!) inspiring in open education and beyond. As every year, I’m involved in a whole host of activities, and I look forward to connecting with you:
Online Events
I’m also taking part in two Open Education Week special events on Thursday and Friday this week with folks from OE Global and Reclaim! The first is a live conversation with a large panel of inspiring people on the topic of online communities hosted by Alan Levine 🙂
The second event is hosted by Reclaim “OEWeek on Reclaim TV: From Experiment to Enterprise Service” and focuses on a piece of work I am really excited about, namely a recent case study about how universities develop, scale and deploy open source educational services.
The case study itself was published just last week, see https://blog.reclaimhosting.com/case-study-suny-oneonta-openlab/ , and I am looking forward to getting to talk with Ed Beck and colleagues from Reclaim come Friday!
Tune in on the radio
It’s easy! Go to https://listen.ds106rad.io/ and listen . Say hello, chat and enjoy the music. I will be monitoring the conversation via Bluesky and on Mastodon using the hashtag #ds106radio and I will be posting using the hashtags #ds106radio #oeweek26 and #IWD2026.
Dedicate a song
If you’d like to dedicate a song to something or someone who inspires you, in open education or beyond, then send me your request by responding to this post in the comments or reach out via Bluesky and on Mastodon.
Join me on air or DJ yourself
For any aspiring or established DS106 Radio DJs out there… get in touch if you fancy joining me on air OR if you are planning a broadcast that weekend, and are up for joining forces around a common theme.
… and look out for a special podcast episode with special guest Chahira Nouira!
