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Open Education Global (OEGlobal) is honored to announce the 2022 winners of the Open Education Awards for Excellence. The 12-member strong Open Education Awards Committee, comprised of educators and open education advocates from around the world, has reviewed the 89 nominations from across 22 countries. Meet the winners here!

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Winners of Open Education Awards for Excellence 2022

Isla Haddow-Flood on October 20, 2022

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OEAwards 2022 Shortlist of Finalists Announced

In 2022, we’re announcing first the #OEAwards shortlist of finalists. The shortlist celebrates 12 open leaders and 33 open education initiatives and practices that have been shortlisted across the 14 awards categories.

Isla Haddow-Flood on October 12, 2022

OEG World

Instituto de Educación Abierta (Chile)

From our previous OEG World stop in Switzerland the map now takes us to Santiago, Chile to share the announcement of Instituto de Educación Abierta IEA (Open Education Institute) housed […]

Alan Levine on August 30, 2022

OEG World

Switzerland’s Open Education Roadmap

A most interesting aspect of openness when it generates positive acts of unintentional serendipity. My initial post for this series was a draft that accidentally got published early. And I […]

Alan Levine on August 26, 2022

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Around the OEGlobal World

I’m starting something new here and I did not even ask permission! As a part of our interest in sharing more of what OEGlobal members are doing I (Alan Levine […]

Alan Levine on August 24, 2022

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OE Global 2024 & 2025 Conference Location Proposal

Thank you for your interest in hosting the Open Education Global Conference. Planning a global conference is a long and intensive process, thus applications for hosting are taken well in advance. […]

Igor Lesko on July 21, 2022

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Save The Date for OEGlobal 2023

Save the date for OEGlobal 2023. We'll see you at NorQuest College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from Oct 16-18, 2023.

Isla Haddow-Flood on June 28, 2022

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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 […]

Isla Haddow-Flood on June 25, 2022

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Three Stellar OEGlobal 22 Keynote Speakers Announced

Three groundbreaking adventurers into the possibility of OPEN have been announced as the keynote speakers at OEGlobal 2022 in Nantes, France. They are literally out of this world! (JulesVerne, who […]

Isla Haddow-Flood on May 12, 2022

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The countdown to OEGlobal 22 begins!

The first Open Education Global In-person Congress takes place from May 23! If you can get to Nantes, but have not yet registered, there is still time! If you cannot get to Nantes, we have developed the AND Conference program to give those of you #NotInNantes a way to experience #OEGlobal on your terms.

Isla Haddow-Flood on May 12, 2022

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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.