We host a monthly webinar, where doctoral candidates and established researchers present and discuss their work. All webinars are recorded and released under a CC BY license. Due to COVID 19, from 2020 onwards, we also held online seminars and workshops. Recordings of these events are also made available on CC BY licenses and listed below.
If you are interested in presenting at a GO-GN webinar, please get in touch at GO-GN [at] open.ac.uk
2026
13 October GO-GN Member Research Special XIII with Esther Jatto (University of Ibadan), Ria Ariani (Technische Universität Berlin), Bastian Donval (Le Mans Université) and Melissa Jakubec (University of Calgary).
5 August GO-GN at OER26
24 June Live-and-direct from GO-GN at OER26
29 April GO-GN Member Research Special XII with rehshetta (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), Alejandra Beatriz Lliteras (National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina) and Emily Grady (Athabasca University, Canada).
30 March 1:2:1 sessions with the GO-GN team.
24 and 25 February GO-GN workshop livestream (research presentations and pilot regional hub knowledge exchange). Review the playlist of 15 member and alumni presentations.
22 January Drop-in Session with the GO-GN team.
2025
18 December End of Year Special with the GO-GN team.
20 November GO-GN Member Research Special XI with Cassandra Hill (Athabasca University), Briony Martin (The Open University, UK) and Joel Nakitare (Technical University of Kenya)
6 November GO-GN X Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) webinar series: Elevating Equity Through Open Education Practices with Tel Amiel (University of Brasilia), Diana Hernández Montoya (Universidad Estatal a Distancia Costa Rica) and Antonio Martinez-Arboleda (Chair; University of Leeds, Knowledge Equity Network)
23 October Announcing our GO-GN regional hubs.
22 October GO-GN X Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) webinar series: Equity, Solidarity and Resistance: Voices from across the Open Education Space with Maha Bali (The American University in Cairo), Surita Jhangiani (The University of British Columbia), Sarah Hutton (UMass Chan Medical School) & Beck Pitt (Session Chair; The Open University (UK) & GO-GN).
16 October GO-GN X Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) webinar series: Community, Equity and Resilience: Insights into the Social Justice Jam with Vasiliki Kioupi (University of Leeds), Tafadzwa Mushonga (University of Pretoria) & Chrissi Nerantzi (Session Chair; University of Leeds, Knowledge Equity Network)
9 October GO-GN X Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) webinar series: Implementing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) practices in Open Education with Carina Bossu (Session Chair; The Open University, UK & GO-GN), Leo Havemann (University College London), Francisco Iniesto (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Javiera Atenas (University of Suffolk) & Saraswati Dawadi (The Open University, GO-GN).
2 October GO-GN X Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) webinar series: Equity in the Age of AI: Lessons from Open Education with Shironica Karunanayaka (Open University of Sri Lanka); Rajiv Jhangiani (Brock University) & Antonio Martínez-Arboleda (Session Chair; University of Leeds, Knowledge Equity Network)
25 September GO-GN X Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) webinar series: Perspectives on Educational Equity with Rob Farrow (Session Chair; The Open University, UK & GO-GN); Carol Azumah Dennis(The Open University, UK); Carina Bossu (The Open University, UK & GO-GN); Antonio Martínez-Arboleda (University of Leeds, Knowledge Equity Network), Chrissi Nerantzi (University of Leeds, Knowledge Equity Network) & Beck Pitt (The Open University, UK & GO-GN).
23 July Drop-in Session with the GO-GN team.
21 May Open to Social Justice Transformation: What has Higher Education got to do with it? with Professor Penny Jane Burke (University of Newcastle, Australia)
16 April Part-time doctorates: building your strategy for success with Jon Rainford (The Open University, UK)
18 March GO-GN Member Research Special X with Jess O’Reilly (Cambrian College) and Kate Molloy (Dublin City University)
26 February GO-GN Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Update with Carina Bossu.
29 January Drop-in Session with the GO-GN team.
2024
11 December End of Year Celebration with the GO-GN team. .
30 October The GO-GN Guide to Doctoral Supervision with Rob Farrow.
1 October GO-GN Member Research Special IX with Jess Mitchell (Thomas Jefferson), Giacomo Vincenzi (Bologna) & Gelareh Keshavarz (Athabasca).
3 September Open for Antiracism: Leveraging Open Education to Support Antiracism in the Classroom with James Glapa-Grossklag (College of the Canyons).
26 June A Dialectical Speculative Method for Re-Imagining Educational Futures with Artificial Intelligence with Kyungmee Lee (Seoul National).
15 May Update on the GO-GN AI Sprint with Rob Farrow. Recording coming soon.
16 April GO-GN Member Research Special VIII with Paz Diez Arcón (UNED) and Kathryn Johnson (Northern Michigan).
28 March Live and Direct from OER24 in Cork, Ireland. Recording coming soon.
6 February The Feasibility of Implementing Standardised Data Literacy Services at Selected Private University Libraries in Kenya with Stanislaus Agava (Pretoria).
23 January GO-GN Experts and Friends Research Special I with Lesley Boyd (OUUK) and Javiera Atenas (Suffolk).
2023
12 December What’s next for GO-GN? plus End of Year Celebration
15 November GO-GN Member Research Special VII with Helen DeWaard & Gabi Witthaus.
17 October GO-GN Live-and-direct from #OEGlobal23 at Edmonton.
13 October 10th anniversary workshop keynote: Back to the Future: The Early Years of GO-GN with Prof. Robert Schuwer and Day One GO-GN member and alumni presentations.
5 July The Ecology of OEP in Australian Higher Education with Adrian Stagg.
6 June The Education Commons: Reviving the Soul of Lifelong Learning with Guy Standing.
23 May Wikipedia and Gender Equality with Ewan McAndrew.
21 April Decolonising Curriculum with ChatGPT and other education technology with Sarah Lambert and Jo Funk.
27 March: GO-GN Member Research Special VI with Davis Velarde Camaqui, Tanya Elias, Lucy Beattie and Viviana Betancur Chicué.
20th February. GO-GN EDI Guidelines Launch
24th January. Open Leadership for the ecosystem of Open Educational Implementation. Ebba Ossiannilsson
2022
20th December 2022. GO-GN End of Year Celebration.
21st November 2022. GO-GN Fellowships Reflection Report Launch
27th September. GO-GN New Member Research Special V. Mara Bordignon, Kathryn Johnson and Melissa Ashman.
18th August 2022. Open Empowerment and Evaluations: Professional Development, Content Curation and Quality Standards. Gino Fransman and Koshala Terblanche
24th May. Live from OE Global F2F Nantes, France
16th March. Fellows Research Special with Catherine Cronin, Michael Paskevicius and Viviane Vladimirschi
23rd February. In the “after-times”: Despair, Criticality, Resistance and Hope with Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin.
2021
14th December. GO-GN End of Year Celebration 2021.
4th November. Understanding Critical Data Literacy beyond Data Skills Workshop with Javiera Atenas, Leo Havemann, Caroline Kuhn and Cristian Timmerman.
14th October. GO-GN Member Research Special IV. with Kate Huth, Evelyn O.A.Tetteh, Emily Helton and Leo Havemann.
15th September. GO-GN Conceptual Frameworks Launch with Rob Farrow.
7th July. Fellows Research Special. Session 2. with Sarah Lambert, Judith Pete and Jo Funk.
9th June. Fellows Research Special. Session 1. with Verena Roberts, Chrissi Nerantzi and Virginia Rodes.
5th May. New Member Research Special. with Barbara Conde Gafaro, Stanislaus Agava Litsalia and Dave Cormier.
20th April. Session, with Michelle Austin and Kelsey Howe of GMMB: OER Communications Strategy and Jami Mathewson of WikiEducation: Become a GO-GN Wiki Scholar
2nd March. Carina Bossu and Viviane Vladimirschi: DEI in Latin America project: Plan and Preliminary Findings (Presentation slides also available)
4th February. Rob Farrow discusses conceptual frameworks, our forthcoming handbook and how to get involved.
2020
14th December. GO-GN End of Year Special
17th November. GO-GN mini-seminar:
- New Member Special. Session One
- OE Global workshop: The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Engaging Doctoral Research with Openness
- New Member Special. Session Two
14th October. GO-GN mini-seminar:
- Meet the fellows: Jo Funk, Judith Pete, Chrissi Nerantzi and Virginia Rodes
- Like <3 and Subscribe to Your Digital !dentity in the Time of Corona. Jim Groom
16th September. Rob Farrow discusses the first GOGN research round-up, which reviewed the latest OER and OEP publications
1st July. Jo Funk presents Open for Whom? OEP with North Australian Indigenous Workforce Development
13th May. JIME special issue on Open Education and Social Justice launch event
6th May. Taskeen Adam talks about Approaches to Designing Justice Orientated MOOCs
31st March. GO-GN mini-seminar:
- Research Methods in Open Education (Rob Farrow)
- Researcher Presentations (Session One)
- Researcher Presentations (Session Two)
4th March. Verena Roberts talks about OEP to expand high school learning environments, spaces & experiences
5th February. This session focused on the plans for developing our new methodology handbook
2019
5th November. GO-GN were live and direct from WCOL2019 in Dublin
10th October. Janesh Sanzgiri talks about “MOOCs and Openness: The Case of MOOCs in India”
5th September. GO-GN were live and direct from ALT-C 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland
4th July. Beck Pitt Results of the UK Open Textbooks Project: What? Why? How?
6th February. Viviane Vladimirschi presents “Professional Development Guidelines for OER: A Case Study of Brazilian Fundamental Education Public School Teachers”
2018
5th December – Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D)
7th November – Rick Holliman discusses ‘Who should have a voice in research?’.
4th October – Chrissi Nerantzi talks doctoral research, cross-institutional academic development, collaborative open learning and phenomenography.
5th September – Connie Blomgren and Verena Roberts have a conversation about K12 Open Learning.
18th July – Bernard Nkuyubwatsi shares ‘Open Distance and eLearning policy development and subsequent open educational practices’.
6th June – Robin DeRosa discusses ‘Open for the Public: Pedagogies Towards the Commons’.
21st April – GO-GN-ers do a VConnecting session from Delft, The Netherlands.
21st March – Dianne Conrad, co-editor of IRRODL shares advice on How to Get Published in a Reputable Journal.
8th February – Caroline Kuhn presents some of her PhD work as she considers Tensions concerning personal open designs and institutional closed artefacts in a Higher Education Institution.
2017
6th December – Rory McGreal talks about OER for collaborative learning.
1st November – TJ Bliss takes you on An Unexpected Journey: How A Dissertation Changed a Life.
4th October – Laura Czerniewicz and Sukaina Walji discuss MOOCs, community orientation and reclaiming the social justice agenda – insights from a South African university’s MOOC initiative.
6th September – Penny Bentley shares her PhD research on Teachers’ Experience of Professional Learning through Open Education.
5th July – Dr Sanjaya Mishra (COL) presents his research on the barriers to OER in Indian HE, as perceived by teachers.
7th June – Cristina Stefanelli, Rania Qazim and Daniel Villar-Onrubia talk about the OpenMed Project.
1st June – Sarah Lambert, Martin Weller, Carina Bossu and other GO-GN members informally chat about publishing open education research.
4th April – Katy Jordan on academic social networking (or why you shouldn’t delete your Academia.edu account).
1st March – Jan Neumann showcases the OER World Map as a tool for scientists.
1st February – Adrian Stagg shares The Ecology of the Open Practitioner: A Conceptual Framework for OEP Research.
2016
7th December – Robin L Donaldson and E Shen on the 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey.
2nd November – Suzan Koseoglu and Maha Bali discuss ‘The Self as an Open Educational Resource’.
11th October – Martin Weller’s openclass ‘The New Open Education’ examines how research into open education has developed over the past 15 years. In collaboration with Cátedra Telefónica-UNIR.
7th September – Shironica P. Karunanayaka shares research on the impact of integrating OER in teacher education at the Open University of Sri Lanka.
6th July – Rajiv Jhangiani reviews research on the efficacy and impact of open textbooks.
1st June – Rob Farrow facilitates discussion around ‘The Open Research Agenda”.
4th May – GO-GN researchers review their participation in the 5th GO-GN Seminar and OEGlobal in Kraków.
6th April – Martin Weller talks about ‘Identifying categories of OER users’.
2015
10th December – Anne Algers presents research based on her PhD work: ‘OER as boundary objects‘.
26th November – Report from OpenEd conference.
8th October – Researching in the open, the good and the bad. Discussion panel. As part of the P2PU Open Researcher Course.
30th September – OER Research Hub, Impact and Findings. In collaboration with ALT: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=177
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