OEGlobal 2022 in Review

OEGlobal 2022 took place a month ago. There was so much to digest and process from the conference, that it feels both like just yesterday and last year all at once!

First, we want to thank those of you who could be there for being there, making OEGlobal 2022 the success it was. We’d also like to thank the global open education community for their unwavering support and interaction through the AND Conference component of the conference. As with all things in Open, it is the community and those who participate that make it as successful as it can be!

Of course, it was also possible due to a great co-hosting team from Nantes Université. Thank you, Colin, Solenn, and Melanie for all the excellent logistics and support.

OEGlobal 2022 in a nutshell

Here are a few statistics about the in-person conference:

3 Days
263 Delegates
Delegates from 28 countries:
- France, Norway, Canada, USA, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, UK, Spain, Peru, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Uruguay, Slovenia, Sudan, South Africa, Denmark, Slovakia, Finland, Belgium, Australia, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Egypt, Tunis, Poland and Ecuador
55.5 % were first-time attendees
27.7% represented OE Global member institutions
1 multilingual AI translation tool created by Nantes Université students
86 Multilingual sessions
- 3 sessions in Arabic
- 6 sessions in Spanish
- 21 sessions in French
- 56 sessions in English
3 Inspiring keynotes
7 Lightning Talks
18 Learning Labs
20 sessions around Building Capacity
46 focusing on OER Sustainability, and
44 Thematic sessions

The AND Conference provided engagement opportunities for the global Open Education community that could not make it to France.

15,740 page views of the AND Conference site on OEG Connect (9,254 or 59% of those from registered Connect users)
1,050 Visitors (382 registered Connect users)
213 Posts created
10 UnConference ‘sessions’ added
2 live Twitter Spaces Coffee Break conversations with 50 participants
14 fun interactive opportunities shared
72 OER Recommendation Annotations added
Incalculable highlights and ongoing conversations continuing …

Where can you re-live the OEGlobal22 experience?

Everything is documented and conversations are still active on the AND Conference site on OEG Connect
Watch all the live streamed sessions on the OEGlobal22 YouTube Playlist
See who was there and what they were up to at the OEGlobal Flickr Albums.
See each day in review on the OEGlobal website.

Explore, review and engage with OEGlobal 2022 in full on OEG Connect.

Reflections from OEGlobal 2022 delegates

Don’t take our word for it …you were there! You saw, shared, experienced it to the full, and then shared those with the world. Read your colleague’s impression here:

The OEGlobal “AND” Conference Experiment by Alan Levine (CogDogBlog)
Open Education Global: Increasing Impact for All by Wilma van Wezenbeek
OEG Conference 2022 : MERCI ! by Pauly Harquevaux-m
Mandela Uni represented at Open Education Global Conference #R2bP by Gino Fransman
DOT4D at OE Global 2022 by Glenda Cox and Bianca Masuku
OEGlobal 2022: Constance Blomgren zum Projekt Accelerating Vaccine Confidence by Susanne Grimm
A Framework for Understanding Innovation with OER by Robert Farrow

If you were there, please share your OEGlobal 2022 experience with us!

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OEG Voices – Latest Podcasts

OE Global Voices

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

We are pleased to return to our series that introducse you to members of OEGlobal Board of Directors. In this episode, we take you to Nagoya, Japan, for a conversation with Takaya Yamazato, who joined the board in 2024. Listen in to learn more about Takaya’s background, motivations, and vision for open education. You will also hear right in the opening music a fascinating insight into his many talents and his research into the micro details of one of the most iconic paintings.

As professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Nagoya University, Takaya’s specializes in wireless and visual light communication and also leads Nagoya University’s OpenCourseWare initiative, working with faculty to publish and enhance course content. He describes how their OCW effort are much more than uploading content aimed at supporting materials to “preserve a legacy of teaching excellence.”

We offered Takaya the option to reply to our questions in his natural language, but he went beyond that in replying in both English and Japanese. He shared his responses in notes as a PDF we are sharing as a download, which is well worth looking at because Takaya added photos to show key locations near his location in Nagoya, a beautiful photo of him as a child, and examples of his open education achievements.

Side by side photos of Takaya Yamazota sitting in his office and Alan Levine in his home library. — In the OEGlobal Voices studio with Takaya Yamazota (left) and Alan Levine (right).

You find many inspiring and global level viewpoints from Takaya:

We believe that this is a message that will bring back the way of education from the bottom up. The education that a person needs now is to grow people who are able to do the right thing. We must grow people who are not just for efficiency, profit, or national gain, but also for the good of the world.
Open education has the potential to provide a space for that reflection. It can create opportunities for ethical reasoning, global dialogue, and personal transformation, not just academic advancement.
Takaya Yamazota

Episode 84 Transcript Download

Notes on This Episode

We are pleased to offer this conversation with Takaya’s voice heard in both English and Japanese and offer a transcript of the English portions. Unfortunately the Descript editing tool we use was unable to process the dual languages, so we lack the usual listen option with the transcript and its GenAI summary.

The episode required additional editing in Audacity to add Takaya’s audio and we used MacWhisper to obtain a transcript of his responses in English. But we do offer as a bonus the full musical track that Takaya shared so we could we use in the episode’s introduction and closing. You should listen to the full episode to appreciate the story behind the music.

Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 84

diverse regions and disciplines, all united by the belief that education should be freely available and socially meaningful.
It’s not just about strategy, it’s about values. And it’s given me hope that open education can help build bridges where politics cannot.
Takaya Yamazota

Nagoya University https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
- Nagoya University Motto 勇気ある知識人 — courageous intellectual via Wikipedia
Takaya Yamazota (OE Global Board profile)
- Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Nagoya University)
- Nagoya University OpenCourseWare (NUOCW)
- YLAB – Yamazota Laboratory (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Nagoya University)
The Secret of the Eyes of Mona Lisa (2024, The Review Policy and Current Status of the IEICE Transactions)

Italian researchers discovered the letters “LV” hidden in the Mona Lisa’s pupil, unseen for centuries, and only revealed thanks to modern technology with very precise microscope lenses.
Similarly, in telecommunications, the LDPC code was overlooked for decades before being rediscovered and becoming fundamental to today’s wireless standards.
And these examples remind us if we evaluate ideas only by today’s capabilities, we may miss tomorrow’s breakthrough.
That’s why our OCW is designed not just to present knowledge, but to inspire, reinterpretation, and rediscovering. I believe open education should be an invitation not just to learn, but to look again with new eyes.
Takaya Yamazota

Our open licensed music for this episode is “Ceramic Feeling” recorded from a live performance by Takaya’s band “Rough Diamonds” and is shared under a Creative Commons By Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.