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The Open Education Awards for Excellence, presented by the OEG Board of Directors, provide an annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the Open Education community. The recipients of these awards demonstrate excellence, goes above and beyond, and exemplifies dedicated and enthusiastic leadership in open education.

News, OE Awards

OEG Announces the Recipients of the 2020 Open Education Awards for Excellence, Individual Awards

Susan Huggins on October 11, 2020

News

A New OEG Voices Podcast Just Released

OEG Voices 004: Alexis Clifton and Cynthia Orozco Join host, Una Daly, director of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) talk to Alexis Clifton, senior instructional designer at SUNY State University of […]

Susan Huggins on October 4, 2020

News

OEG Supports Free the Textbook

OEG and CCCOER are excited to join OpenStax, a leading publisher of free, open textbooks, to support the Free the Textbook, a campaign to shake off the fine print on […]

Susan Huggins on September 22, 2020

News

Open Education Global Announces OEG Voices

We are happy to announce the launch of OEG Voices, a series of in-depth conversations with open education leaders, aimed at bringing you insight and connection to open education practices […]

Susan Huggins on September 17, 2020

News

Kristina Ishmael, An Influencer in Our Midst

We are very proud to share that Kristina Ishmael, Director of Primary & Secondary Education, Open Education Global was recognized by EdTech Magazine as one of the top 30 K-12 […]

Susan Huggins on September 15, 2020

News, OE Awards

Thank You for Your Nomination

Thank you for taking the time to nominate outstanding open education contributors for the 2020 Open Education Awards for Excellence. The awards would not be possible without individuals like you who see the value in recognizing the hard work and dedication of others in open education.

Susan Huggins on July 21, 2020

ED Insights

Helping Each Other

Like all of you, Open Education Global (OEG) has been feeling the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We feel the depletion of social and emotional energy. We feel the […]

Paul Stacey on June 5, 2020

ED Insights

Looking Forward

Executive Director, Paul Stacey, takes a few minutes to recap 2020 and to look forward into 2020. Links to events mentioned in the video: Extraordinary Stories, Open Education Global 2020, […]

Paul Stacey on May 24, 2020

News

Kristina Ishmael Joins OE Global to Lead Primary and Secondary Education Expansion

For over 10 years, Open Education Global (OE Global) has been supporting the global development and use of open education. Based on its origins and relationship with the Massachusetts Institute […]

Susan Huggins on May 18, 2020

News, OEGlobal Conference

Open Education Global 2020 Announces Conference Co-Hosts

The Open Education Global 2020 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to welcome Delft University of Technology, Netherlands & eCampusOntario, Canada as conference co-hosts. The co-hosts join Taipei Medical University, Taiwan […]

Susan Huggins on May 14, 2020

OEG Voices

OE Global Voices

Podcasts from Open Education Global

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

Open Education Award for Excellence 2023 Leadership Award (OEGlobal) https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2023/leadership/patrina-law/
- 2023 Open Resilience Award Winner Responsive OER for Ukrainians (OEGlobal) https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2023/open-resilience/responsive-oer-for-ukrainians/
- 2021 Open Resilience Award Winner OpenLearn’s response to the pandemic (OEGlobal) https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/open-resilience/openlearns-response-to-the-pandemic/
Institute of Educational Technology (The Open University) https://iet.open.ac.uk/
Open Learning: Bridge to Success (The Open University) https://oro.open.ac.uk/35734/
OpenLearn https://www.open.edu/openlearn/
Royal Society for the Arts https://www.thersa.org/
Nobody Tips a Scandiscope (Energyphile, story of chimney sweeps and the brush) https://energyphile.org/nobody-tips-a-scandiscope/
Cities of Learning https://www.citiesoflearning.net/
UK Digital Badging Commission https://www.badgingcommission.org/
Mozilla Open Badges (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Open_Badges
1EdTech https://www.1edtech.org/
Open Badge standard https://www.1edtech.org/standards/open-badges
Ufi VocTech Trust https://ufi.co.uk/

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.