I highly recommend watching some (if not all) the talks from last month’s Knowledge Equity Network event at Leeds. Genuinely inspiring and hopeful for a more collegiate and collaborative HE future. #KEN2022
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUbb9k0_3PcX22D7onKIar-y06G4sZzm4

My blogpost on the Commonwealth of Learning's work on knowledge equity and the recent Declaration on the Knowledge Equity Network has been published

Opening up access: Ensuring knowledge equity through open education
https://www.col.org/news/opening-up-access-ensuring-knowledge-equity-through-open-education

#KnowledgeEquity #OER #KEN2022

‘We have a tendency to go out before we have finished within’ - Dr Kendi Guantai. YES. We don’t live the work and values internally before we reach out externally and shout about our successes. #KEN2022

RT @heroicendeavour@twitter.com

An open culture for higher education is not just about sending information out into the world or reducing barriers to Western knowledge, but accepting and welcoming alternative forms, systems, mediums and interpretations of knowledge from around the world. #KEN2022

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/heroicendeavour/status/1593198231944429568

Have to say that #KEN2022 is probably the best hybrid event I've attended - unsurprising considering the key them of inclusivity - so much space given to diverse perspectives, and all types of audience participation facilitated.
Meanwhile, take a look: https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/knowledge-equity-network/index.html
#openresearch

Our networks have to be infused with these values we espouse, in the work itself, and not just the outcomes. The network has to embody that lived theory. 👏 #KEN2022

Do we acknowledge the contribution of IT staff, building security, cleaning staff, catering, and their vital roles that allow the rest of us to function and dream and innovate? #KEN2022

Dr Karen Salt now reminding us not to forget the structures, the processes, the actual work, while reaching for lofty goals. Who does the work? How are they paid? Who has the opportunity to contribute? #KEN2022

Lovely parable from @ginofransman@twitter.com about animals drinking at a waterhole - our own privilege can lead us to unwittingly create barriers for others, we need to recognise that and use our position to support and facilitate others. #KEN2022

Ubuntu as a key theme or motto for the open movement - it’s not about you or I, it’s about us. ‘I am because we are.’ #KEN2022

Now time for the inestimable @ginofransman@twitter.com talking how the pandemic has resulted in increased global loneliness and disconnection from each other and communities. #KEN2022

I might have just mentioned the M word - easy solution for better reusability of open data is for data creators to create #metadata - translate for lay people as well as across disciplines and languages - tell us why data is great!
Great point also made that public can dive in and add comments, make relations... #openresearch
#KEN2022

Breakout sessions now - first up @opencontent@twitter.com calling for a truly open educational infrastructure. Not just OERs but open educational structures, assessments and credentials. #KEN2022

Hugely inspired hearing Dawn Freshwater saying that leaders need to step up and step out of the way, because they are part of the problem. So few leaders recognise the problematic nature of leadership roles, let alone publicly acknowledge that. 👏 #KEN2022

We can’t find solutions using the same approaches that created the problems, says Dawn Freshwater (paraphrasing here). Can’t use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house. We need to be radical and examine every structure and assumption. #KEN2022

‘We have created our own nightmare and we can unmake it.’ HELL YES, @SEBuitendijk@twitter.com!

We provide the labour, we provide the reviewers and editors, and then we pay the APCs and the subscription fees… why do we continue to allow this?? #KEN2022

Could genuinely stand up and applaud hearing @SEBuitendijk@twitter.com talking about the role of university leadership in perpetuating the exploitative relationship between academia and publishers and the importance of stressing other career paths and dissemination of research. #KEN2022

Lot of discussion at #KEN2022 about the flaws of competitive rankings and the HE obsession with metrics and benchmarking, so I applaud this decision by Yale!

RT @ProfMMurray@twitter.com

Yale Law School, which for decades has dominated the U.S. News & World Report law-school ranking, is pulling out of it, citing flawed methodology https://www.wsj.com/articles/yale-law-school-abandons-u-s-news-rankings-citing-flawed-methodology-11668607649

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ProfMMurray/status/1592883315119620097

Fascinating talk from Dawn Freshwater, VC at Univ Auckland where they are addressing inequalities and recognising Māori ways of doing and being that western knowledge systems can learn from
#KEN2022

An open culture for higher education is not just about sending information out into the world or reducing barriers to Western knowledge, but accepting and welcoming alternative forms, systems, mediums and interpretations of knowledge from around the world. #KEN2022