OEG Voices

We were fortunate to have Jennryn Wetzler visit our studio during Open Education Week for a conversation about her Open Education Individual Award for Excellence in the Catalyst category. The name “Catalyst” is an apt description for Jennryn’s work at Creative Commons as someone who “supports the ideals of the Open Education movement through their own practi

As a special event during Open Education Week 2024, we opened up the podcast studio for anyone to join us in conversation with Maha Bali, professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at The American University in Cairo (AUC). This episode is part of our series honoring winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence, in which Maha was recognized with an In

Our newest episode takes you to Vancouver, Canada, where the voice Julia Alards-Tomalin, faculty at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) describe the inspiring story behind the award winning Buds, Branches, and Bark, recognized with a 2023 Open Awards for Excellence in Open Pedagogy. We can trace the path from Julia’s childhood curiosity about the natural world

As the next show of the Board Viewpoints series, we bring you conversations with and insights from two OE Global Board Members, which we are publishing every other month. In episode 64, we traveled via video conversations to Perth, Australia, to talk to Martin Dougiamas and then hopped over to Monza, Italy to hear from Paola Corti. Martin tells us the fascinating story of his early

You might think the answer to question “What is a photograph?” is trivial. Listen to our conversation with professional photographer and innovative educator Jonathan Worth to appreciate not only the difference between the digital image and the photography, but also an interesting perspective on what photography is in 2024, given the influece of not only artificial intel

Now in its 16th year the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) continues on its trajectory as a community of practice for open education. Started in 2007 by Dr. Martha Kanter at Foothill-DeAnza Community College District, CCCOER joined what is now OE Global in 2011. That moment too was when Una Daly began her long running role as Director of CCCOER, w

In another new series of episodes going into 2024 we will be sharing the voices of the OEGlobal Board of Directors, who provide the key leadership and direction for our organization. In this episode you will hear conversations recorded at OEGlobal 2023 in Edmonton with Board Vice-President Lisa Young and Board Member Cathy Casserly. We hear a bit about their conference experience b

Can you still hear the buzzing energetic hallway conversations, the opening drumming of the Kiyanaw Group, stories of experience from the recent OEGlobal 2023 Conference hosted by NorQuest College in October? We have a mix captured for you here in this episode, a sampler of the Indigenous music that opened and closed the days, clips of people talking about what they were seeing and

This is the first of our series of episodes highlighting winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence. Appropriately, we start with an award winning student, Yasser Tamer, a student in comparative literature plus minors in education and linguistics at the American University in Cairo. For his dedicated work as an open advocate for students with disabilities, researcher

Open Education Global initiated a 12 month internship program in 2022 aimed at providing students, newcomers or practitioners in the open education field an opportunity to gain practical experience by working directly with OEG staff on our development and capacity building activities. Apparently time was flown by as we are now introducing you to the inaugural generation of interns,