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OEG Voices 078: Significant Impact OER Award Winner Frontiers for Young Minds
Put this episode of OE Global Voices on your “Must Listen List” and be prepared for waves of inspiration and awe for Frontiers for Young Minds, an outstanding project that publishes on the order of 250 papers a year on complex areas of science. But more importantly, these papers are written for kids and reviewed by kids in a process that, when you hear it, will make it clear why Frontiers for Young Minds was recognized with a 2024 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Significant Impact ca
Mar 28, • 45:53
OEG Voices 077: Patrina Law on OE Award for Leadership
In our long overdue newest episode, we spoke to Patrina Law about her recognition with a 2023 Individual Open Education Award for Excellence in Leadership. We recorded this back in late September 2024 just prior to the announcement of the 2024 OEAwards. We are confident when you listen to Patrina you will find the wait was worth it! Patrina shares her path from starting in the field of working in a charity organization, then joining the Open University where she ultimately came to lead OpenLear
Mar 19, • 42:26
OEG Voices 076: Purvi Shah on Storyweaver
In this episode we take you to Bangalore, India to hear about a remarkable publisher, Pratham Books and its Open Education for Excellence Award winning platform Storyweaver, core to Pratham’s mission of a book in the hands of every child in the country, published in that child’s mother tongue. We welcomed in the studio Purvi Shah, Senior Director of StoryWeaver & Strategy to tell use the story of Storyweaver, which was recognized with a 2023 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Repo
Dec 19, 2024 • 36:47
OEG Voices 075: Madison Swain-Bowden and Zack Krida on Openverse
In this episode we hear from two key members of the project team behind the open media search tool Openverse, winner of a 2023 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Infrastructure category. Recorded back in late July when we were between the announcements of the shortlist of finalists and the winners of the 2024 awards, we are overdue with sharing this conversation. Openverse is an essential and recommended tool for open educations, a feature-packed search engine for finding and reus
Dec 16, 2024 • 39:06
OEG Voices 074: Tony Bates and A Personal History of Open Education
Join us for a wide ranging conversation with Tony Bates covering his long and on ongoing span of being active in open and distance education. We start from his being part of the very first days of the Open University through his years based in Canada but working globally being integral to the development of online learning through the web. He has long been publishing open textbooks and sharing his perspectives on his own website. We go right up to present day where Tony is active in exploring t
Oct 2, 2024 • 38:05
OEG Voices 073: Board Viewpoints with Katsusuke Shigeta and Rajiv Jhangiani
Get to know the influences, insights, and perspectives of two of the current members of the OEGlobal Board of Directors. In this episode we listen to separately recorded conversations with Katsusuke Shigeta, a long time board member from University of Hokkaido in Sapporo, Japan plus hearing from one of our newer board members, Rajiv Jhangiani of Brock University, in Ontario, Canada. This is another episode of our Board Viewpoints series. Katsu was a guest on our second episode of OEGlobal Voice
Sep 10, 2024 • 56:07
OEG Voices 072: Martin Weller on 30 Years at the Open University
Listen to this episode for a journey through open education history with Martin Weller, who retired in June 2024 from a 30 year career at the Open University. We spoke with Martin in late May to learn more about his educational journey from working class roots to professor of educational technology – starting in 1995 at the OU, in f all things, as a lecturer in artificial intelligence (we honor Martin’s request not to talk much about AI). You will appreciate Martin’s humble and easy going man
Aug 21, 2024 • 41:39
OEG Voices 071: Enhancing IDEA in OER – OE Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
While nominations for the 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence are in the committee review process, we continue to highlight last years winners. In this episode, we travel to Toowoomba, Australia for a conversation with Nikki Andersen from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), editor of Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) in Open Educational Resources (OER). An OER about diversity, equity, and inclusion in OER, this work was recognized in 2023 with the
Jul 31, 2024 • 26:14
OEG Voices 068: Board Viewpoints with María Soledad Ramírez Montoya and Perrine de Coëtlogon
Three languages spoken in one podcast! ¡Tres idiomas hablados en un podcast! Trois langues parlées dans un seul podcast ! Guests in the podcast studio were separate visits with María Soledad Ramírez Montoya (left) and Perrine de Coëtlogon right) Welcome to another episode of our Board Viewpoints series, where we share conversations with and insights from two OE Global Board Members. Listen in as the studio travels first to Monterrey, Mexico to speak with María Soledad Ramírez Montoya (Marisol)
Jun 5, 2024 • 0:00
OEG Voices 067: Jennryn Wetzler on OE Award for Excellence as a Catalyst
We were fortunate to have Jennryn Wetzler visit our studio during Open Education Week for a conversation about her Open Education Individual Award for Excellence in the Catalyst category. The name “Catalyst” is an apt description for Jennryn’s work at Creative Commons as someone who “supports the ideals of the Open Education movement through their own practices and who creates engagement in Openness within an organization or community.” This was recorded as an Open Education week event where we
May 9, 2024 • 33:20
OEG Voices 066: Maha Bali on OE Award for Excellence as Educator
As a special event during Open Education Week 2024, we opened up the podcast studio for anyone to join us in conversation with Maha Bali, professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at The American University in Cairo (AUC). This episode is part of our series honoring winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence, in which Maha was recognized with an Individual Award in the Educator Category. This episode was a live event during Open Education Week 2024. As always,
May 9, 2024 • 41:23
OEG Voices 065: Julia Alards-Tomalin on Open Pedagogy behind “Buds, Branches and Bark”
Our newest episode takes you to Vancouver, Canada, where the voice Julia Alards-Tomalin, faculty at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) describe the inspiring story behind the award winning Buds, Branches, and Bark, recognized with a 2023 Open Awards for Excellence in Open Pedagogy. We can trace the path from Julia’s childhood curiosity about the natural world growing up in Gimli, Manitoba to her studies as an undergraduate at BCIT. Her observation then that the primary time of
Apr 18, 2024 • 38:56
OEG Voices 064: Board Viewpoints with Martin Dougiamas and Paola Corti
As the next show of the Board Viewpoints series, we bring you conversations with and insights from two OE Global Board Members, which we are publishing every other month. In episode 64, we traveled via video conversations to Perth, Australia, to talk to Martin Dougiamas and then hopped over to Monza, Italy to hear from Paola Corti. Martin tells us the fascinating story of his early school years learning via the legendary School of the Air, essentially distance learning delivered to him then via
Feb 15, 2024 • 46:51
OEG Voices 063: Jonathan Worth on the Photograph, the Image and the Now
You might think the answer to question “What is a photograph?” is trivial. Listen to our conversation with professional photographer and innovative educator Jonathan Worth to appreciate not only the difference between the digital image and the photography, but also an interesting perspective on what photography is in 2024, given the influece of not only artificial intelligence, but also the commons use of the devices Jonathan refers to as the “slab in your hand.” Learn more about Jonathan’s for
Feb 9, 2024 • 31:53
OEG Voices 062: Looking Back and into the Future of CCCOER with Una Daly and Heather Blicher
Now in its 16th year the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) continues on its trajectory as a community of practice for open education. Started in 2007 by Dr. Martha Kanter at Foothill-DeAnza Community College District, CCCOER joined what is now OE Global in 2011. That moment too was when Una Daly began her long running role as Director of CCCOER, where she has led the growth and reach of CCCOER over the last twelve years. This December, Una is starting her “re-
Dec 15, 2023 • 31:39
OEG Voices 061: Board Viewpoints with Lisa Young and Cathy Casserly
In another new series of episodes going into 2024 we will be sharing the voices of the OEGlobal Board of Directors, who provide the key leadership and direction for our organization. In this episode you will hear conversations recorded at OEGlobal 2023 in Edmonton with Board Vice-President Lisa Young and Board Member Cathy Casserly. We hear a bit about their conference experience but also their viewpoints into the open education issues and topics that provide their direction in their role on th
Dec 5, 2023 • 13:05
OEG Voices 060: Sounds of OEGlobal 2023
Can you still hear the buzzing energetic hallway conversations, the opening drumming of the Kiyanaw Group, stories of experience from the recent OEGlobal 2023 Conference hosted by NorQuest College in October? We have a mix captured for you here in this episode, a sampler of the Indigenous music that opened and closed the days, clips of people talking about what they were seeing and doing, and a bit of a Vox Pop three word summary. Opening OEG23 flickr photo by OE Global shared under a Creativ
Nov 24, 2023 • 14:59
OEG Voices 059: Yasser Tamer on the Individual Student OE Award of Excellence
This is the first of our series of episodes highlighting winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence. Appropriately, we start with an award winning student, Yasser Tamer, a student in comparative literature plus minors in education and linguistics at the American University in Cairo. For his dedicated work as an open advocate for students with disabilities, researcher of artificial intelligence, and open education facilitator, Yasser was recognized in 2023 with an Individual OE A
Nov 17, 2023 • 33:41
OEG Voices 058: Meet the Interns / Conocer a las pasantes
Open Education Global initiated a 12 month internship program in 2022 aimed at providing students, newcomers or practitioners in the open education field an opportunity to gain practical experience by working directly with OEG staff on our development and capacity building activities. Apparently time was flown by as we are now introducing you to the inaugural generation of interns, almost as some of them are completing their projects. Open Education Global inició un programa de pasantías de 1
Jun 20, 2023 • 49:52
OEG Voices 057: Sarah Kresh on her OE Award in Emerging Leadership
For this episode take a trip with us to the City University of New York (CUNY) where Sarah Kresh shares her open education efforts at the School of Professional Studies (SPS). In listening to Sarah you will understand why she was named a winner of a 2022 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Emerging Leader category. We hope this inspires you to consider a person or project to nominate for the 2023 OE Awards — nominations are open now through June 30, 2023. Sarah shares her journey from
May 26, 2023 • 34:05
OEG Voices 056: OE Award Winner Giovanni Zimotti
Just in time for the opening of nominations on May 15, 2023 for the 2023 OE Awards for Excellence and in the theme of being inpsired by previous winners, we are sharing a conversation we recorded with Giovanni Zimotti who was recognized in 2022 with an OE Award in the Educator category. As Director of Spanish Language Instruction at the University of Iowa, Giovanni has taken on applying and developing Open Educational Resources in the Spanish courses and has led the development of several open
May 15, 2023 • 28:54
