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OE Global has 5 openings for Interns from 2022-3

There are five openings for Interns at Open Education Global between 2022 and 2023.

Two of these positions are Open Education Latin America (OE LATAM) internships, that will require Spanish-speaking individuals who are proficient in English.  The work they will develop is in Spanish. 

1. Tech Intern 

The Tech Intern will work with the tech team on OE Global technology infrastructure, which is primarily based on Python and Django and other (mostly open) technologies. Some of the plans in the upcoming year include: Consolidating WordPress websites and migration to Wagtail CMS, updating Django-based Open Education Week website, and upgrading the CRM. This work will be open sourced, and the tech intern is welcome to use all the code and skills for future career development. OE Global will be happy to provide a reference upon successful completion of the internship. — Interest in Python and Django and eagerness to learn more is required. JavaScript skills are welcome, although not required. Interest in DevOps (Docker, CI/CD) is a plus. The OE Global team is around the world, mostly in EU / US time zones. We work asynchronously.

2. Communications and Community Engagement support

This role focuses on two interlinked tasks:

  • Communications Support facilitates active engagement on social networks, websites, and forum platforms (such as OEG Connect) between the global education community and the OEGlobal community and its members. This will involve uploading, supporting, and engaging via communications campaigns on social media
  • Community Engagement involves engaging OEGlobal members and the wider open education and open communities via one-on-one interactions and community-wide surveys to establish trends, needs, and blockages within the global open education community. It will involve sector research, community navigation, member profiling, survey creation, community interviews, and leading discussions on OEG Connect, etc. towards an annual open education ‘state of’ and ‘future trends’ report.

3. Open Education Language Support | Apoyo lingüístico de OEGlobal

Act as a language representative for OEGlobal. Assist with translation of communications (English-Spanish), network research, community navigation, starting and leading discussions on OEG Connect, etc. 

Expected outcome – updated OE LATAM website and improved OEGlobal bilingual representation/participation.

Actuar como representante lingüístico de OEGlobal. Asistir con la traducción de comunicaciones (inglés-español), investigación de redes, navegación comunitaria, inicio y liderazgo de debates en OEG Connect, etc. 

Entregable: actualización del sitio OE LATAM y representación/participación bilingüe en el sitio de OEGlobal.

4. OELATAM Curator and Report Writer | Curaduría de contenidos de Educación Abierta LATAM y elaboración de informe

Find, collect, and curate content and data on the Internet about open education initiatives, projects, and efforts in Latin-American to determine the current state of open education in the region. 

Expected outcome: publish a Report on the State of Open in Latin America.

Necessary skills:

  • Web navigator, understand Open and be well organized. 
  • Bilingual, Spanish-English

Responsable de encontrar, recopilar y seleccionar contenidos y datos en Internet sobre iniciativas, proyectos y esfuerzos de educación abierta en América Latina para determinar el estado actual de la educación abierta en la región.

Entregable: Informe sobre el estado del arte de la educación abierta en América Latina.

Responsabilidades:

  • localizar y evaluar contenidos relevantes
  • clasificar, organizar y estructurar los contenidos de manera significativa
  • contextualizar la información encontrada para ayudar a representar el estado actual de la educación abierta en América Latina
  • desarrollar, presentar y compartir un reporte final con los hallazgos

Habilidades:

  • Conocimiento de educación abierta
  • Experiencia y capacidad de investigación en Internet
  • Bilingüe, español-inglés

5. OELATAM Tutorial Developer | Creación de tutorial de educación abierta para Latino América

Provide visual content and help develop a series of “How-to Open” tutorials in Spanish. Choose the best visual media for each lesson and plan, design, and create the resource. 

Expected outcome: 10 lessons “How-to Open” Tutorial Series

Necessary skills:

  • Strong visual communications background and understand Open. 
  • Bilingual, Spanish-English

Ayudar a crear una serie de tutoriales de cómo hacer educación abierta (How-to’s) en español aportando con apoyos visuales (gráficos y videos).

Entregable: 10 lecciones en una serie de tutoriales “Cómo hacer educación abierta”

Responsabilidades:

  • Planificar, diseñar y crear medios visuales para cada lección
  • Reutilizar contenidos y estandarizarlos con diseño y elementos visuales atractivos

Habilidades:

  • Experiencia en comunicación visual (diseño y desarrollo de sitios web, producción de videos, ilustración y/o diseño gráfico)
  • Experiencia en creación y actualización de sitios web (WordPress)
  • Bilingüe, español-inglés
Apply for any of the internships here.

More information about the Internships

Pasantías en el OEGlobal

Description | Descripción

Interns are students, newcomers or practitioners in the open education field looking to gain experience by working on OEGlobal development and capacity building activities.  

Los pasantes son estudiantes, recién egresados o profesionales en el campo de la educación abierta que buscan adquirir experiencia trabajando en actividades de desarrollo de capacidades en el OEGlobal.

Role / Activities | Rol / Actividades

Interns work on important OEGlobal strategic and operational activities. Connect with other field builders in dedicated OEGlobal field builders’ virtual space and through organized meetups.

Los pasantes trabajan en actividades estratégicas y operativas de OEGlobal. Se conectan con la red de impulsores del OEGlobal en espacios virtuales designados y a través de reuniones organizadas.

Expected outcomes | Expectativas

For Interns | Para los Pasantes:

The intern will:

  • get regional and global recognition as an OEGlobal open education intern including listing on OEGlobal’s website
  • gain experience in open education
  • develop a network of contacts in the open education field
  • build a base of professional experience supported by an OEGlobal letter of reference outlining their deliverables and outcomes at the end of their intern term

El pasante:

  • obtiene reconocimiento regional y mundial como pasante de educación abierta de OEGlobal, incluyendo mención en el sitio web de OEGlobal
  • acumula experiencia en educación abierta
  • es parte de la red de educación abierta. Desarrollar relaciones con líderes, expertos e impulsores en el campo de la educación abierta 
  • construye una base de experiencia profesional respaldada por una carta de referencia de OEGlobal que describa sus entregas y resultados al final de su pasantía

For OEGlobal | Para OEGlobal:

The intern will:

  • help advance an area of strategic or operational importance for OEGlobal
  • bring fresh ideas and perspectives to OEGlobal work
  • build and enhance OEGlobal capacity and reach
  • meet with and actively communicate with other OEGlobal interns helping build a network of professional peers

El pasante:

  • ayuda a avanzar en un área de importancia estratégica u operativa para OEGlobal
  •  aporta nuevas ideas y perspectivas al trabajo de OEGlobal
  • crea y mejora la capacidad y el alcance de OEGlobal
  • se reúne y comunica activamente con otros pasantes de OEGlobal para ayudar a construir una red de pares profesionales

Eligibility | Elegibilidad

  • An intern is a 12 months, part time, entirely remote contractor.
  • Job starts in July 2022
  • Interns receive $5,000 USD
  • Must have some experience or knowledge of open education
  • Interns are not required to be OEGlobal members though preference will be given to interns coming from OEGlobal members.
  • Interns are selected via application process in response to specific OEGlobal opportunities.
  • Interns will have a direct reporting relationship to an OEGlobal staff member who will direct and supervise their intern work.
  • Interns must have a computer and internet access.
  • Duración de la pasantía: 12 meses
  • Fecha de inicio, Julio 2022
  • Remuneración: $5,000 USD
  • El trabajo es de tiempo parcial y completamente remoto
  • Se espera que los pasantes trabajen de manera autónoma (freelance) y no bajo contrato laboral con el OEGlobal
  • No se requiere que los pasantes sean miembros de OEGlobal, aunque se dará preferencia a los solicitantes que provengan de instituciones miembros.
  • Los pasantes se seleccionan sólo en respuesta a las oportunidades publicadas por el OEGlobal.
  • Los pasantes se reportan directamente con un miembro del personal de OEGlobal quien dirige y supervisa su trabajo como pasante.

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Welcome to the home of podcasts produced by Open Education Global. These shows bring you insight and connection to the application of open education practices from around the world. Listen at podcast.oeglobal.org

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 OpenLearn, and recently circling back to charity in your current role with the Royal Society for the Arts. You will hear her passion for making educational opportunities available as widely as possible to society and her interests in digital badges, research, and aligning programs to documented impact.

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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.

Join Alan Levine as he interviews Patrina Law, a renowned leader in Open Education Resources (OER), in this latest episode of OE Global Voices. Patrina, a 2023 award winner for leadership in OER, shares insights from her extensive career at the Open University, including her impactful work with OpenLearn.

Explore how Patrina’s passion for open education and inclusion has driven innovative projects and research, such as the introduction of digital badges and alternative learning formats. Learn how these initiatives have empowered diverse learners around the world and the significance of data-driven strategies in shaping educational content.

In this captivating conversation, Patrina also delves into her transition to the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) and her current role in advancing the Digital Badging Commission. Discover the RSA’s mission and the potential of digital badges in recognizing and validating non-formal learning in the workforce.

Don’t miss this episode filled with inspiration, innovation, and a deep commitment to making education accessible to all. Tune in for a journey through Patrina’s remarkable contributions and her vision for the future of open education.

  • Intro music and highlight quote
  • Welcome to OE Global Voices
  • Conversation with Patrina Law
  • Patrina’s Background and Education
  • Journey to Open Education
  • OpenLearn and Its Impact
  • Challenges and Achievements
  • Digital Badges and Inclusivity

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I think the first side of it was having the freedom to develop the team that develop all the content. And I was very lucky that I had a really fabulous team when I was there of really dedicated and enthusiastic folk who were very good at making open educational resources.

And I think probably I would put that as down as one of the great successes because they had the skill set to work with academics who in some senses were often dealing with very challenging subject material or very deep subject material that was aimed at undergraduates Level Two, Level Three undergraduates, and they had to rework that material and make it accessible to all, and so I and they made wonderful animations, they made great videos, they made great audio they turned that material into real living, breathing, fantastic, engaging learning content, so I think one of the successes for me, although I can’t say that it was all my doing, but as a team, was the team.

Patrina Law on her team at OpenLearn

Because so much of OER is really aimed at just everybody. And it’s, a whole point of it is to be totally open, but to have sat forward and undertaken some learning yourself, I think you should be rewarded for that at some level. And digital badges seem to be that happy marriage. So it’s great to be working in open badging again for the RSA, for all the right social good reasons as well.

Patrina Law on recognition of Open Badges

Our open licensed music for this episode is a track called Let the Flames Lead the Way  by Jon Shuemaker  licensed 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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