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Twelve Episodes of OEWeek Live Coverage and Conversation

Another successful Open Education Week has zoomed by including hundreds of global events and resources shared. As usual, there is too much happening to take it all in during one week. In our planning suggestions, I proposed a new concept to offer something like a live show, on the internet, that could be some kind of cross between a news report and a talk show.

I’ve always felt a live show adds an element of excitement and I think we achieved it. Plus, given the webinar/presentation formats of many of the OEWeek events, I saw an opportunity for open conversations for guests willing to go live on the internet (ultimately 44 of them joined in).

I am not sure my colleagues fully latched onto my idea, but they allowed me to go ahead with what I called the OEWeek Live show that in the end produced 12 episodes that were streamed to YouTube. They are all available now as a playlist, that’s 11 hours, 33 minutes, 28 seconds of shows, where we offered two shows entirely in Spanish and one in Portuguese.

For a quick show guide:

  • Monday March 6
    • Our Monday First Show included Jennryn Wetzler (Creative Commons), Catherine Cronin (Higher Education for Good, #HE4Good), Maren Deepwell (ALT-C, OER23), and Jennifer Rogers (LibreTexts) all sharing about their projects, plus open discussion on finding joy in learning and differing interests in the open education community [Watch this show]
    • An hour later we offered a special show as A Global Welcome from Andréia Inamorato an opportunity to hear from OEGlobal’s executive director offering her perspective as leading this event [Watch this show].
    • And again one more hour later Andreia returned to host OEweek Live! Segunda-feira em Portugues a most special conversation with colleagues as it was conducted in Portuguese. Guests included Dra. Sara Dias Trindade (Universidade do Porto, Portugal), Dra. Rita Maria Tarcia (ABED, São Paulo, Brasil), Msc. George Bento (ABED, Recife, Brasil), Dr. Luciano Sathler (ABED, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) and Msc. Carlos Alberto Pereira de Oliveira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) [Watch this show]
    • The day was not done as the Monday Final Show offered a conversation with Martin Weller (Open University UK), Florence Devouard (Wiki in Africa) where we heard about GO-GN, Edtech metaphors, podcasts, and many of the Wikimedia and Wiki in Africa climate change activities happening the month of March. That was just one day! [Watch this Show].
  • Tuesday March 7
    • For the opening Tuesday First Show we connected from Canada, Europe, and India with Heather Ross (University of Saskatoon), Terry Greene (Trent University), Bea de los Arcos (TUDelft), Sushumna Rao (KBR & HL Human Development Foundation). We heard about everything from OER repositories and campus OE climates to the Liberated Learners project to teaching Engineering students about OER to the We Like Sharing photo contest to designing of H5P rubrics plus even some perspectives on artificial intelligence [Watch this show].
    • And in Tuesday Second Show we welcomed Nate Angell (Creative Commons), Vidminas Vizgirda (University of Edinburgh), Lauri Aesoph (BCcampus). In rounds we heard about plans for the CC open summit, a GO-GN fellow’s research interests, and the latest on open content from BCcampus. Then we dug a bit into the Open Learning Experience Bingo idea and again, ventured a bit into AI [Watch the show].
  • Wednesday March 8
    • We opened Wednesday with a session in Spanish, OEWeek Live! en Español Miércoles 8 de Marzo with Marcela Morales (OEGlobal), Agustin Huertas (OEGlobal intern), Kristelle Gutierrez (OEGlobal intern), María Soledad (Marisol) Ramirez-Montoya (OEGlobal Board Member), and Diana Hernadez-Montoya (OEGlobal Board Member). Our interns shared plans for new Spanish learning materials and an open survey for the OELATAM node and our board members relayed other relevant projects of interest to our Spanish speaking open education community [Watch this show].
    • And we got into the technology for the Wednesday Second Show with Paul Hibbitts (Hibbitts Design) and Zack Krida (Automattic) where we got to see live demos of the publishing platform of Docsify This and the Openverse media search site, the modern and snazzy descendent of the CC Search [Watch this show]
  • Thursday March 9
    • We went full on experimental in the Thursday First Show with Lorna Campbell, Sheila MacNeil, and Paola Corti representing the OER23 Conference Planning Team whom we brought in to the studio via their Discord meeting space to learn about the upcoming conference in Inverness, Scotland. Then we brought in Rob Farrow (UK Open University) for an in depth conversation about the GO-GN project and his efforts with ENCORE+ research on innovation in OER [Watch this show].
    • Then we offered a second show in Spanish– Conversación informal: Competencias Digitales Docentes del Profesorado Universitário de España en Educación Abierta with Andreia Inamorato (OEGlobal), Dra. Cristina Villalonga (Universidad de Nebrija), Dr. Juan Ramón Lacalle Remigio (Universidad de Sevilla), Dr. Edmundo Tovar (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid – UPM), and Dr Carlos Delgado Kloos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) all sharing about open education projects and activities happening in Spain [Watch this show].
    • The last Thursday show had grand plans to be in English and French, but that’s how live TV sometimes goes in a different direction. Still we had a fast moving conversation with Todd Conaway  (University of Washington Bothell), Chris Lott (University of Washington Tacoma), Kim Carter, Jane Gravill, and Fatih Yegul (Conestoga College), and Alex Enkerli  (Collecto). The topics ranged from informal learning communities to a new Open Access Teaching Case Journal to Francophone OER, and even a round of what the panel was hopeful for [Watch This Show]
  • Friday March 10
    • Our final show of the week brought to the studio Maha Bali, Mia Zamora, and Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh (Equity Unbound), Bukola James (Wikipedia in the Classroom Nigeria), and Karen Cangialosi (OEGlobal) where we covered teaching with Wikipedia, the MyFEST program, and OEGlobal’s weeklong effort to open up individual memberships. But again we went beyond projects and had rich conversations about challenges and hope [Watch this show]

This format was extremely refreshing for us and we were rewarded to witness so much cross connections happening in an unstructured format. For anyone interested this live show format was done relatively easily with Streamyard which broadcasts from the web directly to YouTube. Participants watching there were able to send comments and questions directly to our studio.

We are interested in continuing with some kind of ongoing live show here at OEGlobal- and please visit us in OEG Connect to tell us your ideas on what might make it valuable to you and this community.

As we hopefully showed this week, going live creates a palpable energy and a conversational format opens much opportunity to emerge. Would you want to go live with us? Reply below.

Featured Image: Television studio HTV.jpg Wikimedia Commons image by Krish Dulal licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 modified by Alan Levine to include the OEWeek Live logo.

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OEG Voices 081: Bea de los Arcos on We Like Sharing

Who would not want to be part of something called “We Like Sharing” especially when encouraged by the enthusiastic voice of Bea de los Arcos? This clever idea for a photo competition from TUDelft held annually since 2021 is less about prizes and more about generating an understanding of openness through the sharing of photographs, and at the same time, creating a rich visual collection of images representing openness… shared openly.

We Like Sharing has planned each year to coincide with Open Education Week and was also recognized in 2023 with an OE Award For Excellence in the Wildcard category. This conversation was recorded in late January 2025 in hopes of generating more interest, but was hardly necessary given the quality of this year’s 150+ submissions and the winners selected by public vote.

As usual there are more interesting, and anticipated, ideas and understandings that come from our OEGlobal Voices conversations. Listen to learn not only about We Like Sharing, but also Bea’s path from the seaside of Galicia, Spain to the innovative university in the city in the Netherlands painted by Vermeer, and maybe even a hint of bagpipes.

Listen to our conversation, get inspired to go outside with your camera and find interesting details to photograph… and hopefully share.

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In This Episode

FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by the AI “Underlord” in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices.

In this episode, Alan Levine talks with Bea de los Arcos about her inspiring project, “We Like Sharing.” They discuss how the initiative encourages Creative Commons licensing, open sharing of photographs, and the value of appreciating and documenting beauty in everyday moments. They also explore Bea’s personal journey, her love for walking, and the importance of community in open education.

  • Introduction and Background
  • Bea’s Personal Journey and Influences
  • Living and Working in Delft
  • Overview of the Extension School
  • Inspiration Behind ‘We Like Sharing’
  • The Evolution of ‘We Like Sharing’
  • Impact and Stories of Reuse
  • Ideas for Encouraging Participation
  • Bea’s Personal Interests and Hobbies
  • Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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I love this photograph, it was one of the winners from last year. And it is a white wall and there are lots of hearts painted in different colors on the door.

It’s a wall and a door and lots of hearts.

So for some reason I love that photograph because there’s so much love in just the one wall. It’s actually called “Love on a Wall.” And that was picked up in Flickr by the algorithm In Explore. It attracted lots of views. so that allows me to go back to the [photographer] in this case, that person wants to remain anonymous. But it allows me to go to this person and say, “Hey, this is what’s happening for your photograph.” And of course they get super excited, “Wow!”

I know [many photos] have been reused because I see them on presentations by colleagues. So [they] pick the photograph, put it on a slide, and that’s a beautiful example of reuse.

But in this case, it was more interesting because one of those little hearts on the wall, so not the whole photograph, was used on the cover of a little booklet from the University of Leeds, a little booklet, called, “With Love from Your Supervisor.” It’s about giving advice to o PhD students about how to go about research. The cover is a little person holding the book and all these hearts. That’s love from your supervisor and that heart is one of the hearts in “Love on a Wall”. So I thought it was just amazing.

Bea de los Arcos on reuse of a We Like Sharing photo

A white wall and a door painted with scores of colourful hearts. ”Open is sharing love anywhere, any time, for everyone.”
Love on a wall flickr photo by Pelerecho shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license. This photo was a winner in the 2024 We Like Sharing photo competition.
Credits for cover art of With Love from a Dissertation Supervisor.
Cover art of With Love from a Dissertation Supervisor. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), 3D Art and design, Odysseas Frank, OD-3D artstation portfolio
Hearts on cover: Detail from “Love on a wall” photo by Pelerecho, released under
CC BY, part of the “We like sharing” collection, TU Delft, University of Technology,
The Netherlands, OEWeek24 Photo Competition entry number 81,
https://flic.kr/p/2pBDByZ
A look down to the study places below, from high inside the cone of the Library in TU Delft,
TU Delft Library by Carel van der Lippe, released under CC BY-NC-ND
At first glance, this image might seem like an abstract composition, but it captures a simple, everyday object—stacked chairs—transformed through perspective and repetition. The interplay of light on the chrome frames, the precise alignment, and the rhythmic curves create a striking modern aesthetic. Taken inside the Architecture Block, this image reflects how design exists in even the most functional elements of our surroundings.
Abstract utility by Krishna Koushik Venigalla, released under CC BY-NC-SA
A cat, looking out of an open window in a brick wall,
The Observer by Jonas Leander von Heusinger, released under CC BY-NC-SA
Looking up to the sky from the bottom of a canyon with wavy walls.
Moving spaces by Tian Qing Yen, released under Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

We encourage you to visit the full collection of over 1500 openly licensed images curated over the five years of We Like Sharing Open Photo Competition. Each image’s caption includes description text suitable for an alt image description and cut and paste text for full attribution to the photographer who shared it. If you reuse any images, please consider leaving a comment in flickr or contacting Bea, so she can communicate this back to the photographer.

We full expect to see We Like Sharing back in 2026 for Open Education Week. This is a very replicable activity and we have previously discussed with Bea in OEG Connect about what it takes to organize a spin off version.

It comes to you. One of the photographs that I took was when I was waiting for the tram and I just looked down. There was a campaign in Delft at the time around violence against women. [Someone] had this stamped on the pavement this hand and a message “stop violence against women.”

So, I was thinking, wow, become a bit more curious about what it is that is happening around you. Don’t look at your phone with your apps or your messages. No, just look. Look away from your phone– maybe that’s what it is. — look away from your phone. What can you see?

Bea de los Arcos on looking at the world around you

An open hand painted on the pavement beside the words 'Stop geweld tegen vrouwen', 'stop violence against women' in Dutch.
Stop flickr photo by B. de los Arcos is shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

Our open licensed music for this episode is a track calledPhoto Album by Crowander shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist).

Finally, this was another episode we are recording on the web in Squadcast, part of the Descript platform for AI enabled transcribing and editing audio in text– this has greatly enhanced our ability to produce our shows. We have been exploring some of the other AI features in Descript, but our posts remain human authored except where indicated otherwise.

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