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This is going to sound naive as hell, but I didn't realize that all #OpenEd20 presentations would be recorded & licensed CC BY. If you attended #WOCinOER, I was prob noticeably flustered bc I was going to say re: Twitter to respect anonymity of participants' and their stories...
Maybe that was shared beforehand, but I totally missed it? I was given the speaker release when I entered our session 15 minutes early, signed it 5 minutes before our presentation, and noticed that stipulation at that point.
I think this just further articulates my feelings about my OER work not being aligned with the dominant OER narrative. Even if we're doing OER work and having OER conferences, shouldn't we negotiate our levels of openness? Not everything needs to be open #WOCinOER
I feel like if our session had been "closed," it would have been much safer for participation. As others have said, being open doesn't automatically liberate. There's this gross determinism around openness when we ought to have more critical conversations about open itself.
No shade to the conference organizers because putting on a conference is no easy feat, but I also feel compelled to be transparent and critical in my experience for future OER spaces.
So to be clear, this is wrapped in my own assumptions about levels of openness, and something that I didn't explicitly engage with until it was too late. I just feel like I put other WOC in an awkward situation and should have confronted this way before the actual presentation.
