Meet our second cohort of GO-GN fellows!

After the selection process and interviews from our second fellowship call, we can now make the decision public!

We are proud to introduce our second cohort of GO-GN fellows. From May they will have six months to develop their proposals, and the new fellows are:

Verena Roberts

My fellowship idea is to develop and expand upon the OLDI Framework (from my EdD research) by   1) starting a collection of all current and past open education podcasts,   2) collecting open resources that describe the podcasting process and;   3) creating our own OEP podcast series. Podcasts can represent a more accessible, equitable and multi-literacy focused OER option for all learners. For example, the collection of the podcasts could include the Multiplying K12 OER podcasts, the Terry Green – Gettin’Air podcast, The Collection of podcasts created for the 25 Years of EdTech and any other OEP/OER podcast specific content in ANY language. The collection would include resources on how to make and record podcasts and any CC licensing metadata and steps that need to be considered for any learning environments (K-12 – Higher Education).  In addition to curating the open podcast collection and resources, I want to start a new podcast series that amplifies student experiences of OEP and its impact in their lives.  

Sarah Lambert

I would like to do a targeted piece of research about OER awareness and acceptance with the Business discipline, with a project at its core to plan a revision of one of the OpenStacks Business foundations texts following the Open Stacks DEI principles. One of the outcomes of the Australian Open Textbook as Social Justice project was the identification of different types of uptakes in different disciplines, Business has huge student enrolments but is not generally open to open textbooks. Individual academics with personal interest felt worn down by conservative colleagues – they wanted a more visible group effort on OER texts before they’d stick their necks out. Improvements in that area re increasing use of OER would impact a high number of students. They also are needing a pretty big uplift in removing gender inequality from curriculum and teaching culture so focussing on revising a business text to remediate sexism in the lack of female examples seems timely.

We will let you know soon about the webinar where Verena and Sarah will introduce their proposal to our GO-GN members.