Elections 2023

Developing networks for OER awareness, use, advocacy takes time, and even more so with primary/secondary/K-12 communities. I am committed to growing this network through Open Education Global, the premier open organization. I continue to be passionate about various facets to open education and recognize past gains and see the growing edge. I would like to continue as a director to ensure that my contributions make a difference to the OEG community as education is fundamental to SDG 4 and to nearly all of the other SDG. There is so much work to do and as a director I have a bird’s eye view of open education and where we can move to next for further successes.

I have served on the Open Education Global board for two terms, and I am seeking a third term because it takes time to deeply understand and nurture communities of open educators. I am an Associate Professor at Athabasca University ( Canada’s Open University) in the Open, Digital and Distance Education graduate programs. Recently, I have had several innovative and creative OER projects for primary/secondary/K-12 educators. I research and teach about open education, as well as guide doctoral students in the area of OER and open pedagogy. I serve as the associate editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. I am an ambassador for the International Council of Distance Education OER Advocacy Committee. Currently, I am a Program Co-chair for the OEG 2023 conference in Edmonton, Canada.

1. Membership Growth and Engagement,
2. Events and Services,
3. Research in Open Education

Expertise expanded:

I engage with growing, sustaining, and nurturing OEG membership and engagement through my ongoing OER community and networks. These networks include other academics, librarians, graduate students and colleagues at local, national and international levels. Along with the Creative Commons Open Climate campaign, OEG will likely play a role within open education’s response to our simultaneous and overlapping crises. The importance of healthy, dynamic open communities is integral to OEG membership growth and engagement, events and services.

As a director I would contribute to:

• the fiduciary role played by OEG Directors with an understanding of the relationship directors play within the current strategic plan,
• the ongoing development of the OEG conference, OE Week, OE Awards,
• growing the global open community as outlined in the strategic plan,
• fulfilling OEG director responsibilities (e.g. attend meetings, review documents, provide feedback, etc), and
• actively supporting a culture of care for OEG staff as they actualize the strategic plan.

Open Education Global has created a dynamic strategic plan (2021 -2030) that emphasizes – field building, knowledge exchange, and value co-creation. These 3 areas are integral to building upon what OEG effectively has done in the past. The strategic plan does not overextend but rather through a thoughtful and collaborative process (in which I participated), the plan highlights the growing edge of the organization within the context of a global education movement. I will continue to contribute to open education and the OEG strategic plan in general, but especially in the area of primary/secondary K-12 where awareness- building and policy development need attention.

Paola is a leader in Open Education in Italy and Europe and would be an excellent addition to the OE Global board.

I started working with OER at the beginning of 2016, thanks to my managing director Susanna Sancassani who saw my approach and to the welcoming OE community and their supportive attitude. From then on, I did my best to continue learning by doing, studying (I am a Certified CC Facilitator), and practising. In the learning innovation Unit of Politecnico di Milano, METID, I support colleagues daily when working on videos and content for our openly licensed MOOCs on the Polimi Open Knowledge platform. It is also a great way to advocate for open with teaching staff and researchers, supporting their work and suggesting open alternatives. I also guide teaching staff during professional development courses to facilitate their first steps into open education.

Together with the METID team, I started with our first openly licensed MOOC, “Using OER in Teaching” (still available on the Polimi Open Knowledge platform https://www.pok.polimi.it/dashboard), winning the OE Award of Excellence for OER MOOC in 2017. This MOOC is undergoing a localisation process now to support Ukrainian participants with subtitles and quizzes in their local language. We continued with an extensive series of openly licensed MOOCs, supporting reusers behind the scenes when needed.

With the international OE community, I started many collaborations and exchanges on projects, dissemination events, publications and creative experiences. The focus was on showing the potential of OER and OEP and raising awareness in new communities (for example, by using the Go-GN picture book “Together”, https://go-gn.net/go-gn-picture-book/, winner of the Open Innovation Award of Excellence 2021).
My experience outside the boundaries of my University helped me support my colleagues at Polimi at best, bringing home insights and solutions and offering the opportunity to contact experts who could share their expertise in a mutually beneficial relationship with us. We’ve involved experts advocating for OER with faculty and decision-makers for years.

Polimi hosted the OE Global Conference in 2019, immediately after the UNESCO OER Recommendation was approved, and I co-chaired. We never stopped: we are working at the local, national and international levels to involve more practitioners and decision-makers and ignite collaborations to prove through practice that OE is an opportunity, even if it comes with challenges.

In collaboration with the Open Education Italia network, Wikimedia Italia and CC Chapter ITA, involving the UNESCO Representative in Italy, I recently hosted a series of webinars on the basics of OE at the national level (recordings are available – CC BY – in this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmKUwJ0KJQnV3-VPFJKooz_zZb_xxtZzu).
Recently, I joined SPARC Europe (https://sparceurope.org/) for part of my work, playing the role of Open Education Community Manager for the European Network of Open Education Librarians (https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-education/enoel/). I support librarians in actively participating in advocating for OE and implementing the action areas of the UNESCO OER Recommendation. The ENOEL won the OE Award of Excellence 2022 for Open Collaboration.

I am a member of the Network of Open Orgs, a global community of organisations and leaders in open education who come together to support projects and processes that help the OE Community implement the Recommendation.

I have been a mentor for Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW, https://oe4bw.org/) since 2019.

1. Membership Growth and Engagement
2. Events and Services

Expertise expanded:

I am a team player; collaboration is always better than competition in my approach. I enjoy working in international networks, being deeply curious about different cultures and what they can bring around the same table when dialoguing with peers. Complexity intrigues me, but I am a problem solver with a practical approach.

Thanks to many professional and non-professional experiences, I am a strong-minded and goal-driven event organiser.

I am passionate about listening to the needs of diverse communities and then igniting knowledge-sharing activities in many forms (community meetings, webinars, and other opportunities to share good practices and learn from each other).

I am a passionate advocate for open and a practitioner willing to support creating/adapting/remixing resources and tools for those – students, teachers, librarians, and decision-makers – who can benefit from better learning opportunities. I see OE Global as one of the overarching organisations that thrive on helping the global community find the most effective ways to implement the UNESCO OER Recommendation’s action areas.

The list of what we should accomplish, working together at different scales, is already described. In addition, we still need to be even better at avoiding duplicating efforts, learning from organisations with a history of diverse and inclusive approaches we might benefit from applying and crossing the boundaries of cultures and disciplines to get inspired. Exploring and experimenting with different approaches to face present challenges should be part of the focus of the Board of Directors. I’m sure they are already doing it; let’s continue and reach further.

OE Global brings people and cultures together. This is extremely powerful. Power comes with great responsibility: choosing what to promote, what to work for, and what to build, but also – and largely – prioritising projects and steps forward. We all need to progress, at different levels, around the world. But we also need different kinds of support: some of us need funding, some of us need guidance, some of us need political support, some of us need all these together, and more.

As I see it, OE Global is, first of all, a community that crosses all sorts of walls to come together and humbly try to find constructive directions while respecting all people. It all starts with listening carefully. And then ask questions to share doubts and involve others to find – or build – paths that help the larger community transform the present learning ecosystem into the one we need to support lifelong learners effectively dealing with the Anthropocene Era challenges.

After 20 years working in Open Education, from learning as an amateur wiki course author and Extended Degree Programme educator and curriculum creator at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, migrating North to the University of South Africa, working with peers at the University of Cape Town, and currently situated at Nelson Mandela University, the candidate has a wealth of tested and tried experience and insight into the state of Open, and where it may bring forth additional benefits to learning and teaching: more so however, to the Sustainable Development Goals oriented direction education has to more focussedly steer, or be steered along with other stakeholders.

Gino Fransman is the founder of the Open Education Influencers project (https://openedinfluencers.mandela.ac.za) at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. He is the current Africa Hub Coordinator for the UNESCO Open Education for a Better World [OE4BW] program, plus both a mentor and previous project author in the program. His highly collaborative Open online course is titled Becoming an Open Education Influencer (BOEI). BOEI is a student empowerment and advocacy tool for innovation in education through Open available on the MandelaUni Open Engage LMS. Gino is a member of the OE4BW Advisory Board and the 2021 winner of the Open Education Global Emerging Leader Award (https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/emerging-leader/gino-fransman/). He is also an independent member of Open Education Global. In 2023, he has been named as a Key Partner for the Knowledge Equity Network (KEN), “Key Partners represent a range of thought leaders from Higher Education Institutions, influential organisations and include diverse perspectives from across the globe.” See more about KEN here: https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/knowledge-equity-network/index.html. See Gino speaking at the KEN Global Summit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQMQigZX6g8&list=PLUbb9k0_3PcX22D7onKIar-y06G4sZzm4&index=11&t=77s. In 2023, he has been voted onto the Board of Directors for WikiinAfrica https://www.wikiinafrica.org/ .

After 20 years working in Open Education, from learning as an amateur wiki course author and Extended Degree Programme educator and curriculum creator at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, migrating North to the University of South Africa, working with peers at the University of Cape Town, and currently situated at Nelson Mandela University, the candidate has a wealth of tested and tried experience and insight into the state of Open, and where it may bring forth additional benefits to learning and teaching: more so however, to the Sustainable Development Goals oriented direction education has to more focussedly steer, or be steered along with other stakeholders.

This insight is able to extend where many perspectives may not in several Boards across the world, especially those aiming– through their very works- to target a representative audience and beneficiary and participatory list. This applicant includes Africa and South Africa as a proponent of his campaign of Opening Up, while engaging and collaborating globally in several initiatives with GO-GN, the Picture StoryBook project, and his own OE4BW Becoming an Open Education Influencer programme which has garnered several recognition, award and repurposing across the oceans, and is a model of international collaboration across the world and the pandemic.
The candidate has served as an author for Open Education for a Better World, as a mentor in the OE4BW programme by bringing more voices from Africa to the UNESCO programme and is currently the Hub Coordinator for Africa for the 2nd year running. The candidate is also the winner of the 2021 Emerging Leader Award from OEGlobal, as well as UNESCO Open Innovation and Implementation Awards.
He has in 2023 been named and now acts as a Key Partner designate for the Leeds University headed Knowledge Exchange Network. In 2023, he is also placed as a member of the Wiki In Africa Board of Directors, and hopes to share these authentically African and experienced elements to the decision making discussions of OEGlobal ahead.
He is, in 2023, one of the institutional leads in the Siyaphumelela (We Succeed) Student Success Programme Network in South Africa, which includes 23 of 26 universities in the country, and will in May lead a series of workshops beginning a Network of Open Education Workshops for all the institutions to start Opening Up with more awareness and tools. This is run in conjunction with the South African Institute for Distance Education, OER Africa, University of Cape Town, University of the North West, and Nelson Mandela University.
Finally, he has an organisational history of OEGlobal since its inception as OpenCourseWare Consortium, engaged and garnered support from all the Executive Directors, and has attended 10 OEGlobal events as a contributing speaker so far, as a member of the Programme Committee and reviewing panel for each, while assisting with the facilitation of the OEGlobal event in Cape Town.

1. Fundraising & Sustainability,
2. Membership Growth and Engagement,
3. Events and Services,
4. Student engagement and voice, innovation of OER use for professional and career development

Expertise expanded:

In my tenure at Nelson Mandela University, with no budget line item for Open, I have grown it to be funded for 3 x revolving year cycles of funding within a national student success programme across all HE institutions in SA. I have a creative and energetic past and present in advocating for funds to bring student voice to a global stage, with student attendances at OEGlobal in Milan and keynote speakers at OER20. But fundraising isn’t my primary goal mostly, so much as those key events and promotion of OE and the facets that take it to the rest of our audiences. I want this to include profiling and promoting OEGlobal. Energetically. And with stakeholder participation across the globe.. We are currently firming a funding route throught the Commonwealth of Learning, attempting to make any outputs immediately available and useful to possible stakeholders. Sharing is a skill.

I have an appetite, energy and deeply-rooted belief in Open Education that has been both recognised and acknowledged by peers globally. I bring a true honesty to the ideals of Open, and hope to add these to the Board at OEG. My aim is not a sole self-interest pursuit, it is one where I hope to energise and help direct the experiences and voices of students and educators, the truest benefactors of education, towards being more Open. It is also an aim to platform how Opening Up can meaningfully assist education professionals to release long-held and often still institutional knowledge banks and experience traumas about sharing. Open Education has often been placed within the realm of higher education, and my vision is to help to expand it into becoming a more commonly used tool for development across industry, personal and professional development. Open Education for culture and diversity is also a very important aspect of my intentions in the space going forward and creating resources and strategies to empower others into Opening Up is an integral part of the work I aim to do. In South Africa and elsewhere, the name ‘Community Colleges’ often exclude Higher Education, and the space OER is most visible. As a Board Member, I hope to elevate the prominence of Open and its myriad benefits and opportunities in these lesser populated Open spaces called TVET Colleges (Technical Vocational Educational Training). Supporting the creation and sharing of traditional cultures and histories using Open Education as a vehicle is of critical importance across cultures in the world. It is an aim in my candidacy for this Board placement.

I strongly believe and hope to further enable this: It is not wrong to question and make the best of us all available to everyone. To anyone. For free. Still: to be acknowledged and referred to as the owners or contributors to the work they share and feast upon is a big deal to any individual in education, so how will we support them to do so? Is it policy, is it awareness making, is it simply support to enter this space? Is Open about technology, or access? Or both? I want to be part of making this flourish, because it is happening, but that happening is too often isolated to spaces where resources are already available to the users, and this tends to make those users better than others simply by accessibility. That is wonderful, but Africa is ripe for gaining from the fruits of Open Education and can once again be a template for expansion of the ethos, even to the Global North who deem Open a product of their labour and thought. The farmer, gardener and seeds need to be situated more ubiquitously, and fruits spread more fairly. We less need to be spoken for, than to have a defined space in the Open to speak up for ourselves. See my recent Provocation Address at the Knowledge Equity Network at Leeds University by invitation, where I address the elephant in the room: https://youtu.be/Nh-X-f1_1UQ Finally, I want to emphasise that my conceptualisation of Opening Up is not just a keyword, activity, or hashtag. With the placement to this Board and focussing on assisting in the areas defined above with help of OEGlobal, we can make such efforts relevant to Opening Up after the pandemic, isolation, and knowing we’d have even more work to do to make Open relevant once we get back.

Dear Nominating Committee, Thank you for your hard work in identifying passionate educational leaders of high integrity who are committed to improving education worldwide through open educational practices.

I am submitting for your consideration the scholarly work done over the past years related to the topic of open access and open educational practices as part of my academic and management activities at Tecnologico de Monterrey:

(a) Scientific production. My first published papers back in 2010-2012 focus on open access and from that I have been related to open educational practices. The citation index of my publications is 753 in Google Scholar. The h-index in Google Scholar is 15 and h-10 is 26. I prioritize open access, through dissemination in the institutional repository RITEC (https://repositorio.tec.mx/), as well as in academic portals such as ResearchGate or my personal site

(b) Research groups. I participate as an associate member of the Educational Technology Research Unit and also as an adjunct member of Interdisciplinary group called “ Scaling Complex Thinking for All” in the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. As part of my activities in the group, I participate as an author of high impact publications, in seeking funding agencies for the development of research projects and in dissemination of the results obtained.

(c) Training of human resources. Under my direction, I have graduated 3 Doctoral students from the Ph.D. Program in Educational Innovation and four students are in the process (Tecnologico de Monterrey). I have also been advisor for 50 students in graduate programs such as Master in Education and Master in Educational Technology (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Master in Educational Research (Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora), Master in Educational Management (Centro Regional de Formacion Docente e Investigacion Educativa del Estado de Sonora). In 2019, I was invited to serve as external evaluator in a doctoral thesis at the Universidad del Norte in Colombia, as international evaluator for thesis in the Ph.d Progam in Knowledge Society at University of Salamanca in Spain, as advisor at the Catholic University of Argentina and as external tutor in the doctorate in psychological research at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Puebla and the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico. In February 2023, I have been appointed as a host for a postdoctoral researcher who will collaborate for a period of one year in publications and postulation of funded projects.

(d) Distinctions and collaborative networks. In 2018, I participated in the internal call for academic career at my institution. After the evaluation of my portfolio and evidences, I was named research assistant professor. In 2022 I was evaluated again and resulted as research associate professor. At the national level in Mexico, I have been part of the National System of Researchers since 2015 (Currently at Level 1). At the international level, in 2021 I have obtained the best paper Award for the work called “Interweaving Digital Literacy with Computational Thinking” in the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality Conference that took place in Barcelona, Spain. I have been appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Master’s Degree in Education and in the Diploma in Educational Management at Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Colombia. Also I was invited as part of the doctoral thesis tribunal at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the University of Navarra in Spain (September 2021). I have been guest professor in the Master in Curricular Innovation and Educational Evaluation at Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile (May-July 2021, July-August 2022, January-April 2023). I got an invitation to attend a meeting in the European EdTech Network (EETN) that took place in Oulu, Finland in February 2020. Also, I was invited to an academic meeting within the Master’s Degree in Education Entrepreneurship program at Oulu University of Applied Sciences, in Helsinki, Finland (November 2019). I was invited as peer reviewer in XIII Jornadas de Investigación e Innovación at the Universidad de Medellin, Colombia (September 2019). I attend the Education Entrepreneurship Certificate by Catalyst @ Penn Graduate School of Education in San Francisco, California, United States; March 2019. I have been a Member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) since October 2018. I haven been a Juror at the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2018. Wharton-University of Pennsylvania in September 2018.

For institutional development support activities I have been focused in two areas:

(a) Undergraduate Level. During 2017, 2018 and 2019 I participated as a member of the design team of the new bachelor’s degree in educational innovation. I participated in the design of courses and new training units, for which required me hours of previous training, on-site and remote work meetings with multidisciplinary teams. I participated in promotion and dissemination activities with student candidates for the program, which started in August 2019. In 2022 and 2023 I have participated as a professor in this program.

(b) Graduate level. I served from 2015- to 2022 as program director of the “Master’s Degree in Administration of Educational Institutions”, which required me to attend and follow up with students, assisting in the signing of degrees and graduations. Although it is a program closed to new admissions, we continue to attend to the experience and follow-up of the students. I also participated in the design and proposal for the opening of a new graduate program (M.A. in Education Entrepreneurship), conformation of the basic academic core, conferences and promotion and recruitment activities for this program. Likewise, I collaborated in the meetings of graduate program directors that, together with the associate deanship of graduate programs of the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey, discuss the requirements and needs for updating the programs. I participate as a member of the Ph.D in Educational Innovation and the Master in Educational Technology. I advise graduate theses and collaborate in internal committees related to accreditation and membership in the academic staff, which require constant participation to verify re-accreditation processes. I lecture the graduate course called “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” which is taken by all new graduate students (masters) in the area of education in the School of Humanities an Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey.

Participation in evaluation committees:

I have act as an international juror in the QS Reimagine Education Awards (Wharton – University of Penssilvanya and The Alfred West Jr. Learning Lab). I also participated in 4 scientific evaluations of books, 2 editions of Evaluation of the Summer of Scientific Research of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), 12 Scientific Committees of national and international congresses, evaluating papers and +40 evaluations of articles from JCR, Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI-WOS) indexed journals.

Always open to connect and help others for the achievement of quality in education,

Leonardo David Glasserman-Morales is the director of the Master’s program in Education Entrepreneurship and Associate Research Professor at the School of Humanities and Education. He is a graduate of the Ph.D. in Educational Innovation, the Master’s in e-Commerce and the Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Tecnologico de Monterrey. He is a member of the faculty of the Ph.D. in Educational Innovation and the Master in Educational Technology programs at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is an associate member of the Research Unit “Educational Technology” and adjoint member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) on “Scaling Complex Thinking for All” in the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in topics related to the use of technology in education, open education, innovation and educational management. He has published papers in top journals and have given conferences in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, United States. He has been appointed as guest lecturer in universities in Chile and Colombia. He is a member of the doctoral committees in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Spain. He focuses his management, research, teaching, outreach and internationalization activities on the promotion of learning environments that influence social transformation.

More info: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7960-9537

1. Events and Services
2. Academic research

Expertise expanded:

Regarding Events and Services, I have been a program director of the Master in Education Entrepreneurship at my home institution where I have been involved in the development of two online Demodays to highlight final projects from our students. Demoday 1: https://observatorio.tec.mx/edu-news/presentaciones-maestria-emprendimiento-educativo/ Demoday 2: https://observatory.tec.mx/edu-news/demoday-masters-in-educational-entrepreneurship/ Also, I have been a member of the UNESCO and ICDE Chair at Tecnologico de Monterrey participating in events organized onsite: https://oerunesco.tec.mx/miembros

I can bring expertise to plan and develop meetings, conferences and seminars both online and in face to face formats. Regarding Academic research I can outline the following aspects that I can bring to share with other board members of OEG: a) Scientific production. My first published papers back in 2010-2012 focus on open access and from that I have been related to open educational practices. The citation index of my publications is 753 in Google Scholar. The h-index in Google Scholar is 15 and h-10 is 26. I prioritize open access, through dissemination in the institutional repository RITEC (https://repositorio.tec.mx/), as well as in academic portals such as ResearchGate or my personal site (in spanish): https://sites.google.com/itesm.mx/ldglasserman/, b) Research groups. I participate as an associate member of the Educational Technology Research Unit and also as an adjunct member of Interdisciplinary group called “ Scaling Complex Thinking for All” in the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. As part of my activities in the group, I participate as an author of high impact publications, in seeking funding agencies for the development of research projects and in dissemination of the results obtained. More info: https://tec.mx/en/r4c-irg, c)Training of human resources. Under my direction, I have graduated 3 Doctoral students from the Ph.D. Program in Educational Innovation and four students are in the process (Tecnologico de Monterrey). I have also been advisor for 50 students in graduate programs such as Master in Education and Master in Educational Technology (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Master in Educational Research (Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora), Master in Educational Management (Centro Regional de Formacion Docente e Investigacion Educativa del Estado de Sonora). In 2019, I was invited to serve as external evaluator in a doctoral thesis at the Universidad del Norte in Colombia, as international evaluator for thesis in the Ph.d Progam in Knowledge Society at University of Salamanca in Spain, as advisor at the Catholic University of Argentina and as external tutor in the doctorate in psychological research at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Puebla and the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico. In February 2023, I have been appointed as a host for a postdoctoral researcher who will collaborate for a period of one year in publications and postulation of funded projects. Information of Phd Students: https://escueladehumanidades.tec.mx/dee/users/leonardo-david-glasserman-morales, d) Distinctions and collaborative networks. In 2018, I participated in the internal call for academic career at my institution. After the evaluation of my portfolio and evidences, I was named research assistant professor. In 2022 I was evaluated again and resulted as research associate professor. At the national level in Mexico, I have been part of the National System of Researchers since 2015 (Currently at Level 1). At the international level, in 2021 I have obtained the best paper Award for the work called “Interweaving Digital Literacy with Computational Thinking” in the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality Conference that took place in Barcelona, Spain. I have been appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Master’s Degree in Education and in the Diploma in Educational Management at Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Colombia. Also I was invited as part of the doctoral thesis tribunal at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the University of Navarra in Spain (September 2021). I have been guest professor in the Master in Curricular Innovation and Educational Evaluation at Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile (May-July 2021, July-August 2022, January-April 2023). I got an invitation to attend a meeting in the European EdTech Network (EETN) that took place in Oulu, Finland in February 2020. Also, I was invited to an academic meeting within the Master’s Degree in Education Entrepreneurship program at Oulu University of Applied Sciences, in Helsinki, Finland (November 2019). I was invited as peer reviewer in XIII Jornadas de Investigación e Innovación at the Universidad de Medellin, Colombia (September 2019). I attend the Education Entrepreneurship Certificate by Catalyst @ Penn Graduate School of Education in San Francisco, California, United States; March 2019. I have been a Member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) since October 2018. I have been a Juror at the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2018. Wharton-University of Pennsylvania in September 2018.

If I were to be elected as a member of the board of directors, I would represent with honor and dignity the tasks assigned regarding taking decisions on the Open Education Global activities. Rapport among other board members is needed so an approach to understand what were, are and will be their projects in order to promote synergy. As a personal expectation, I will push initiatives related to enhance open educational practices in the Latin-American region acting as liaison in subcommittees and other strategic groups related to open educational practices.

One idea that has been buzzing in my head is related to the develop the states of knowledge related to open educational practices among world regions in the post pandemic era. I have had the opportunity to conduct a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the topic of virtual education in Mexico in the decade 2012-2021 in order to identify open access papers that contributed to the topic and that could help us to understand what the future of virtual education might be in the next 10 years (2022-2031). If so, an specific committee needs to be build and coordinators for regions would be required. A second idea is related on how the use of AI might affect the development of OER and its indexation in repositories. For sure is a current topic that open educational practices should not miss to address.

Finish the work that I have been doing for a couple of years on the Board.

I am a teacher passionate about human talent, innovation and technology. I am currently a researcher and coordinator of the Fabrication Laboratory of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia. Professionally I have been trained in the areas of preschool and primary education, educational technology and informatics, project management and design thinking. I have worked in public and private educational institutions in different tasks: teacher, researcher, project manager, academic producer and coordinator; roles that have given me opportunities to be part of interdisciplinary teams and to keep myself always open to change, to learning, to error, and to the never impossible task of generating real impacts in the lives of people and in the dynamics of the spaces in which I work.

I have been the coordinator of UNED’s OpenCourseWare since its inception more than 12 years ago. I also participated in international projects related to the Open Movement, Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices. I am currently a member of the Latin American Node of Open Education Global. I am also the coordinator of the Open Educational Resources Node of UNED, from where projects, initiatives and activities in these strategic areas have been developed and continue to be developed.

• Membership Growth and Engagement,
• Events and Services

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In the case of Central America, the UNED of Costa Rica, through OpenCourseWare and the Open Educational Resources Node, has greatly supported the development of these topics (OER, OER, OER, among others). This is why I believe that some of the practices that have been promoted can help OEGlobal members to enhance their participation.

We have also developed activities, events (trainings, workshops, lectures) and other actions to bring potential beneficiaries (teachers, students, administrative staff, authorities) closer to these topics and areas, considering their limitations and possibilities.

There are three main elements that I would like to achieve if elected as a member:

1. To increase the presence of Central American countries in the Open Educational Movement and, ideally as members of OEGlobal.
2. To increase the participation of Latin American countries in the projects that are being developed worldwide on Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices.
3. Seek strategic partners, preferably members of OEGlobal, with whom alliances and commitments can be established for the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals and the UNESCO recommendation document of 2019.

Additionally, I would love the opportunity to help foster collaboration across the globe as it relates to OER.

I believe that my main contribution in the case of the OEGlobal would be to make more visible the possibilities, needs and efforts of Central American countries in projects, initiatives and activities in support of the Open Educational Movement.

I would also like to suggest some ideas on how to support the members of OEGlobal to take more advantage of the possibilities offered by OEGlobal.

I have spent much of the last decade working to help advance open educational practices across the globe, including by working with post-secondary institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. I have led open education initiatives at my home institutions, including at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and now at Brock University. Part of that work has involved designing institutional policies, support programs (e.g., OER grant and publishing programs, Open Pedagogy training for educators, etc.), technological system integrations, advocacy and and research agendas, and capacity building efforts to ensure these initiatives are sustainable. Some of my work has been recognized with an emerging leader award from OE Global.

I believe strongly in the importance of this work, including widening equitable access to knowledge and knowledge creation and doing so using a thoughtful and critical approach that does not risk committing harm with the best of intentions. This is why much of my scholarship has focused on developing social justice frameworks for open educational practices.

I enjoy strong relationships with major OE organizations, including Creative Commons, the Open Education Network, SPARC, the Commonwealth of Learning, the OERu, BCcampus, etc. and have long been engaged within the OE Global community. I have great respect for the staff and board members of the organization. I would very much like to apply my experience and expertise (including as an OER author and scholar, researcher, and advocate for OEP) to help advance the strategic goals of OE Global.

For the past decade I have been deeply invested in helping advance open educational practices (OEP) worldwide. I have worked with post-secondary institutions across North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia to help develop their capacity to support OEP. In 2020 I served as an Ambassador for the Global Advocacy of OER for the International Council for Open and Distance Education and in 2018 was invited to speak at OpenCon United Nations about how OEP can support progress towards the sustainable development goals. I received the Emerging Leader Award from OE Global in 2020 and the Excellence in Open Education Award from BCcampus in 2019.

First as a faculty member and later as an administrator at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in British Columbia, I led the development of Canada’s first zero textbook programs (undergirded by robust supports for OER creation, adaptation, and adoption), along with supports for open pedagogy and a range of open educational technologies. Both at KPU and now at Brock University (Ontario, Canada) I have worked to integrate OEP into institutional strategic and academic planning, including by developing supportive policies, procedures, and practices.

I have co-authored three open textbooks in Psychology, while supporting the development of a wide range of ancillary instructional resources. I have worked with professional organizations such as the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science to support the embrace of OEP in my discipline.

My scholarship includes research on OER student and faculty perceptions, efficacy, and adoption patterns, the co-development of a social justice framework for OEP, the co-development of a self-assessment scale for institutional maturity and capacity for OEP, publications on designing institutional supports for OEP, and two edited volumes on open education. Together with my colleague Dr. Robin DeRosa, I co-created the Open Pedagogy Notebook as a forum for educators to browse and share their own examples of open pedagogy in practice.

I have worked with allied organizations including Creative Commons, the OER universitas, the Open Education Network, ICDE, SPARC, eCampusOntario, Achieving the Dream, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and especially BCcampus, with whom I served as a Senior Open Education Advocacy and Research Fellow. I have long been a member of the OE Global community and would love to channel my energies in support of the 2021-2030 strategic plan.

• Membership Growth and Engagement,
• Events and Services,
• Scholarship in open education;
• Institutional capacity development related to OEP

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Scholarship in open education: I have published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters that shed light on a range of elements of open education, including faculty and student perceptions and use of OER, OER adoption patterns, OER efficacy, open pedagogy (including the development of a social justice framework for OEP), institutional self-assesment scales, and even technical aspects such as OER course marking. I have mentored OE Research Fellows at KPU and BCcampus and planned and facilitated KPU’s Open Education Research Institute. I have previously served as an OER Research Fellow with the Open Education Group as well as a Senior Open Education Research and Advocacy Fellow with BCcampus.

Membership growth and engagement: I work extensively with post-secondary institutions across the world and present routinely at international conferences and forums (e.g., Asian Association of Open Universities, CAVAL Australia, World Conference on E-Learning, Online Learning Consortium, OERxDomains, etc.).

Events and services: I have been involved in the planning and execution of numerous open education events, including at my home institutions and with BCcampus, including multi-day conferences, OE Week panels, and professional development opportunities such as the KPU Open Education Research Institute. I have designed and facilitated in-person and virtual OE-related workshops for years.

Institutional capacity development related to OEP: For the past decade I have worked with over 100 organizations to help develop their OE capacity (especially across Canada and the United States and in regions that do not already enjoy robust support from organizations such as BCcampus). I designed and oversaw the implementation of robust institutional supports for OEP at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and co-developed a self-assessment tool for institutions that wish to measure their OEP capacity and maturity.

In addition to helping to grow the number of individual and institutional memberships, I hope to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of new initiatives across the three areas of focus identified in the OE Global 2021-2030 Strategic Plan, especially in the context of knowledge exchange and value co-creation. Specifically, I hope to draw on my experience and expertise to contribute to the development of strategies to support open education leadership development, institutional open education capacity development, affinity network creation, OEP collaboration incubation, and open education standards development.

Some of my ideas include:

a) Building leadership capacity through mentorship of emerging leaders (including those who lead institutional OE initiatives, whether or not this is part of their formal job title),

b) building institutional capacity through evaluation (e.g., via institutional self-assessment scales) and consultation with OE Global ambassadors,

c) building affinity networks, including by developing relationships with discipline-based professional societies, where appropriate and feasible,

d) facilitating a matching program for OEP collaboration that can connect practitioners and funders with those with subject matter, technological, instructional design, copyright, and other relevant expertise,

e) developing an OE Week-sponsored speakers program to contribute expertise and institutional capacity development at no cost to member institutions, and

f) integrating technical and accessibility standards alongside dimensions of social and epistemic justice (e.g., redistributive justice, recognitive justice, representational justice) within the envisioned open education standards.

I am very interested in becoming more involved with OE Global, and feel I have the requisite skills and knowledge to fulfil the responsibilities of a board member. As an instructional designer at NorQuest I have led open education efforts at the college, from the initial adoption of open images to the development of our Reimagine Higher Education OER plan, which envisions NorQuest as a largely textbook cost-free institution by 2030. Open Education Global’s values are closely aligned with those of NorQuest, which has made inclusion a strategic priority. I believe that open education not only makes education more accessible but facilitates social justice because OER can be adopted/adapted and customized to suit the needs of local populations.
Since 2018, I have been involved in OE Global as a conference presenter and attendee and am now a program co-chair for the OE Global Edmonton conference in October, 2023. As program co-chair, I have gained valuable insight into OEG event planning and operations. I have a strong interest in international open education developments and recently concluded a Global Affairs Canada sponsored trip to Uruguay where I am developing two open education projects with a University of the Republic faculty member and graduate student.
I would love to have the opportunity to fulfil the duties of a board member and assist OE Global in realizing its three main initiatives in field building, knowledge exchange and value co-creation.
Thank you for your consideration!

• I have a PhD in German language and literature and a post-bacc diploma in instructional design. I have been an instructional designer at NorQuest College in Canada since 2016. During this time, I have led open initiatives at the college, including the adoption of open images in courses and the development of our college OER plan in the Reimagine Higher Education report, which envisions Norquest as a largely textbook cost free institution by 2030.
• I am member of the Open Education Alberta steering committee, which oversees the development of OER using the Pressbooks platform.
• I am a conference program committee co-chair for OE Global Edmonton. This position has provided me with good insight into conference and program organization, the United Nations sustainability goals and the UNESCO OER recommendations.
• I have a strong interest in building open connections. I recently participated in a Global Affairs Canada Faculty Mobility scholarship project investigating open practices in Uruguay. This was a wonderful opportunity to exchange knowledge and build partnerships with the University of the Republic in Montevideo and Plan Ceibal, a teacher support organization.
• NorQuest is an institutional member of the CCCOER and I have participated in their book club and professional development webinars.

• Events and Services,
• Good understanding of international open education developments and open education development and promotion

Expertise expanded:

• I have been leading open education development at NorQuest College for 7 years. We are now publishing 3-4 open textbooks a year and hope to become a textbook free institution in the future. I am the go-to person Open Education guidance and support at NorQuest.
• I have experience organizing OE events. In 2019, I organized and helped NorQuest host the Alberta OER spring summit. I am currently program co-chair for OE Global 2023 in Edmonton.
• I have a good understanding of international open issues and challenges; for example, the challenges in developing sustainable funding models for OER, the difficulties in developing OER policies and connecting governments with grassroots Open Education movements (as in Alberta).

• First, I hope to fulfil all of the duties of a board member, from supporting OEG in its mission and purpose to setting board policies, to monitoring the ethical and legal integrity of the organization etc.

• I am excited by the role of OE Global as a connector between administrations, governments and educators and its role in promoting knowledge exchange about open education. I look forward to building global connections between all stakeholders in the OE ecosystem.

• I had the good fortune to attend the Commonwealth of Learning Conference in Calgary in the fall of 2022 and was impressed with the representation from the global south. It was such an enriching experience to hear about OE development in Africa and the Caribbean, for example. My goal is to support greater participation from all OE actors in, for example, open education week and OE Global.
• I want to help OE Global fulfil the UN sustainability goals and the UNESCO OER Recommendations. Access to accessible high-quality education will help to reduce inequalities and poverty, promote responsible consumption and provide decent work opportunities for everyone etc. Encouraging international and national OER policies and international cooperation between OER stakeholders will enhance the growth of open education.
• I want to assist OE Global in promoting the integrity of local cultures; for example, ensuring the availability of OER in local languages.

• I would like to support OE Global in its mission as a connector, an organization that facilitates partnerships and collaboration between different actors in the OE ecosystem. I would like to help expand open education networks to include other institutions involved in learning, for example, libraries, museums, galleries, as well as K-12 and post-secondary.
• I would like to support OE Global in expanding awareness about the social justice function of open education. I would like to push for more inclusivity at OE Global and Open Education Week by having more participation form the Global south. We could investigate the possibility of supporting conference delegates facing financial challenges.
• I would like to promote open pedagogy as a way for OE Global to support SDG 4 — “inclusive and equitable quality education.” Open pedagogy empowers students and provides them with 21st century employment skills in researching, digital literacy, critical thinking etc.

I, myself, would like to presue the third term to serve the Board.

Marian Wan is the Associate Dean of the Office of Information Technology at Taipei Medical University (TMU). In 2017, she founded the Digital Initiative Center at College of Interdisciplinary Studies in TMU, whose vision is to promote the best practices of OER, e-learning and MOOCs.
Since 2012, Marian has organized the MOOCs Production Studio for TMU. Currently, 100 courses have been produced. More than 30 courses are English-speaking courses, which is outstanding in Asia. Moreover, most of them are reused in various courses in TMU as flipped classrooms.
Marian holds a Master of Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Pharmacy. Recent interests of research include educational technology and digital intelligence in higher education.

1. Fundraising & Sustainability,
2. Membership Growth and Engagement,
3. Events and Services,
4. Operations, including Legal & Finance

Expertise expanded:

I have served as a board member and the Treasurer of the OEG since 2019. I have served as the delegate of TMU since 2007 and as the Board member in both Taiwan Open Course and Education Consortium and Chinese Open Education Consortium, the 2 major consortiums related to open education in Taiwan. I am familiar with the ecosystem of open education.

I presented reports at more than 5 OE Global Conference or Asia Conferences and held OEG Conference 2020 in Taipei and in virtual. As a lecturer of Applied Information Technology in TMU, I have applied OERs in courses for more than a decade. The practice reports were presented in Global Conferences as well

In Taipei Medical University, I have lead the reengineering of our ERP system and various cross-platform software projects. I am familiar with the financial processes and workflow.

-Cooperate with the board and staff to fulfill the new vision and goals of OEG2030
-Advocate for open education in Asia region
-Promote the network of OEG in Asia region

In the strategic plan of OEG2030, followed by the UNESCO OER recommendations, a global open education network for the social good seems to be the main theme. Through the change of the ED in the past year. There are more challenges and action items needed to be fulfilled in the coming years. The Board is responsible for providing sufficient support to the staff.

One of my main professional satisfactions was serving as a Board member of the then OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW) (2009–2013). It was a privilege and a life lesson to be part of a group of leaders passionate about education in the first years of the Consortium’s life. Raising awareness about the importance of open education, community growth and its sustainability were then the priorities. Since then, my commitment to the movement has grown throughout my career in many positions I have held, at my university, at IEEE, the most important international association of engineers, as President of the IEEE Education Society, or as a researcher, teacher, and mentor in OER projects. Ten more years later, I consider that I can return to serve Open Education Global with even more passion and experience.

Edmundo Tovar (M’94–SM’06), IEEE senior member, received a computer engineering degree and Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the Madrid Technical University (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM), Madrid, Spain, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. Currently (2001-) with the UPM is a Professor of information technology in enterprise with the Languages and Information Systems Department. He is a Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) (2005- ) and Professional Software Engineering Master Certification (2015- ) by the IEEE Computer Society and Academic Advocate of ISACA, Information Systems and Control Association (2008 -).

Professionalism: He is member at large of the Board of the Professional Association Informatics Engineering of the Region of Madrid, and worked as Software engineering and Knowledge Engineering in the Public Administration and private companies (1988- 1993). Currently he is Director’s Delegate for Professionalism in his School. Quality Area: Consultant in Quality Assurance, he has been member of many Committees of external Evaluation of the I and II National Plans of Universities Evaluation, COLUMBUS Program, working group for the Madrid’s university system (ACAP) and ANECA. He has been Associate Dean for Quality and Strategic Planning (2007-2012) in the Computing School of the Madrid Technical University, in charge of the certification of the Internal Quality System of the School of Informatics Engineer under the AUDIT Program (ANECA). Currently he is member of the Accreditation Committee for EUROINF, European quality level for Informatics studies (ANECA).

Educational Innovation and Research Area: He leads an Innovation Group and a Research Group REFERENT in technologies applied to Open Education. He is Editor of the Information Technology / Information Systems Editorial Board of MERLOT (Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching -www.merlot.org) and the Computing Hub coordinator in the “Open Education for a Better World” He is author of around 300 papers in Engineering Education.

Management and volunteering in Education: He has served as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the OpenCourseWare Consortium (2009–2013), Executive Director of the OCW Office of the UPM (2008–2012), and Executive Director of the Open Education Office at UPM (2013-2016). Cofounder of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE the Education Society (2004-2006), he has been a member at large of the IEEE Education Society Board of Governors (2005–2013), Vice President of Educational Activities and Awards (2013–2018), President Elect (2019-2020), President (2021-2022) and currently junior past President (2023-2024). He has been a member of different IEEE Educational Activitites Board (EAB)

Standing Committees: (2013-now) and very involved in many IEEE Conferences as general chair and member of different Steering Committess of these conferences. Professional member of IEEE-ETA KAPPA NU (2019) and Faculty advisor of HKN Nu Beta chapter.

Awards: Honorary Ambassador of the Madrid Convention Bureau in recognition of the organization of international congresses. He was awarded educational innovation award 2007 in UPM, the IEEE EDUCON 2011 Meritorious Service Award, the 2008 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award (2008), the 2011 Best Chapter Award and the 2007 Chapter Achievement Award, and he has recently been recognized (2022) in Spain with the National Computer Science Award, for his innovative and significant contributions in the teaching and development of computer science in the academic field.

• Membership Growth and Engagement,
• Events and Services,
• Operations including Legal & Finance

Expertise expanded:

Since 2009 my commitment to the open movement has grown throughout my career in many positions. I have held:

– at my university, mainly as Executive Director of the OCW Office of the UPM (2008–2012), and Executive Director of the Open Education Office at UPM (2013-2016) – at the OpenCourseWare Consortium, an elected member at large of the Board of Directors of the (2009–2013).

– at IEEE, the most important worldwide association of engineers, as President of the IEEE Education Society (more than 3,000 members) and member of the Board of Directors of IEEE (more than 400,000 members) and of the Educational Activities Board. Some of the achievements in these positions have been chairing the work of the committee that has developed the current Strategic Plan of IEEE Education Society, participating as co-general chair in almost 20 international conferences, governing this association, and supporting operational teamwork, among other activities.

– or as a researcher of European Research projects focused on the quality, discoverability and interoperability of Open Education Resources – teaching with open practices, and mentoring in OER projects.

Contribute my vocation of service and my experience to the Open Education movement around the pillars of the 2021-2030 Open Education Global Strategic Plan aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. OEGlobal will launch new initiatives in three areas of focus: field building, knowledge exchange, and value co-creation.

My first ideas for each of these initiatives are:

– Field building: to track, classify by area of interest, know the priorities, and keep in touch with the different types of stakeholders. In addition to educators, administrators, and the government, act on other more specific groups such as researchers, resource providers, technology platforms,…

– knowledge exchange: promote open access conferences and publications, virtual and in person, as a priority, providing them with standards that ensure the quality and proposed impact.

– and value co-creation networks: through these networks, face new pedagogical and technological challenges with organizational support at two levels: global and regional. At the regional level, supporting the sharing of practices and helping to adapt global policies to meet local needs and particularities.

One of my main professional satisfactions was serving as a Board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW) (2009–2013). It was a privilege and a life lesson to be part of a group of leaders passionate about education in the first years of the Consortium’s life. Raising awareness about the importance of open education, community growth, and sustainability was then the priority.

The early success of the open movement was rooted in the convergence of social interests promoted mainly by UNESCO, as well as by other institutions, such as MIT, which allowed it to reformulate its strategy through new business models.

Given that Open Education Global sees education as an ecosystem, my vision for this ecosystem is summarized in facilitating the integration, convergence, and satisfaction of the interests of all stakeholders in education while preserving the objectives and values of OEG, such as Socially Just, a Public Good, Inclusive, Accessible, Affordable, and Adaptable, Collaborative, Facilitated by Community and Stewards, and Impactful.

Currently serving on the Board and serving as the Vice-Chair. I would love to be able to continue serving OE Global in this capacity.

Dr. Lisa Young has served in higher education for 28 years. Starting as faculty teaching water resources, her interests later expanded to online education and open educational resources. After serving as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Scottsdale Community College, one of the Maricopa Community Colleges, located in Arizona in the US for over 13 years, she has moved to the District office as the Faculty Administrator for Open Education and Innovation.

Dr. Young has a B.S. in Geography with an environmental emphasis, a M.ED. in Learning and Instructional Technology, a Ph.D. in Instructional Design for Online Learning, and a graduate certificate in Advanced Analytics in Higher Education. Additionally, she has earned the Creative Commons certification.

Dr. Young has been involved in Open Educational Resources (OER) since the early 2000s through work with reusable learning objects and the promise of open licensing. She is a founding member of the Maricopa Millions OER project which leveraged OER and low-cost materials to provide cost savings and increased access to learning materials. She has represented the Maricopa Community Colleges in the OE Global and CCCOER organizations since 2013, serving as Vice President of Professional Development and Co-President of CCCOER. She has delivered many presentations and workshops focusing on OER across the US and abroad. She was involved in the CCCOER’s Regional Leaders of Open Education Initiative and in the White House’s Open Government Partnerships discussions of 2014 for the US Government. Additionally, she has served as an OER mentor in the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) project. Lisa currently serves as the Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of OE Global.

1. Membership Growth and Engagement,
2. Events and Services,
3. Data analytics

Expertise expanded:

As Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and co-chair of the Maricopa Community Colleges OER Steering Committee, I have been involved in in-person and online event planning, including professional development workshops and series and large-scale conferences. Additionally, I have served on the planning committee for the Open Education conference.

Finally, I have experience in analytics and research, which could be leveraged for evidence of impact of OER.

In regard to what I would like to accomplish if I am elected to the OE Global board of directors, I would like to leverage my background in analytics and research to specifically aid in the direction of improving the quality of education, student success, and affordability research and metrics.

Additionally, I would love the opportunity to help foster collaboration across the globe as it relates to OER.

Support the Board, Executive Director and staff in the important work they do for OE Global members and the OER community.

Having had the opportunity to see the evolution of OE Global from the OCWC to the current organization, has been very exciting. In the years that I have been involved in this organization, I have enjoyed seeing the increased collaboration, in-person and virtual. Additionally, I believe the more recent focus on regional nodes is an opportunity for regional collaboration and aiding in individuals and institutions making connections, working together and truly integrating OER into education systems. Furthermore, I would love to see OE Global provide leadership in data collection, so we could provide data to countries as they work on Open Government Partnership and UNESCO goals.

Additionally, I see an opportunity to support the OE Global goal of “generat[ing] pedagogical innovation using the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet”. OE Global could harness the brilliant minds of the OE Global membership institutions to positively disrupt education through the use of student centered OER as well as aiding in the development of infrastructures for OER throughout global education systems.