GO-GN at the Open Education Conference 2024

GO-GN is thrilled to be participating in this year’s Open Education Conference in Providence, RI, USA and online from 8-10 October 2024. This year is the 21st year of the conference, and the first hybrid event.

• Find out more about the conference theme “It’s about time.”
• Register to participate face-to-face or online.
• Interested in meeting up with GO-GN? Get in touch!

Participating in #OpenEd24?

If you’re participating in the conference, don’t forget to build some of our awesome GO-GN member and alumni sessions in as part of your conference planning! We’re delighted that eight of our GO-GN members and alumni, as well as the team, are sharing more on their work at 12 sessions across the conference.

To make it easy for you to find our fantastic GO-GN’ers at #OpenEd24, and hear more about their exciting work, here’s our handy list of presentations. Alumni, members and team are all marked in bold text.

All times are EDT unless otherwise stated.

Tuesday 8 October 2024

• 16.00 Artificial Intelligence in Education: Critical and Open Perspectives. Rob Farrow (OUUK)
• 16.30 Using Photovoice to Centre Teachers’ Experiences of OER in Lebanon. Bethany Eldridge (Michigan).

Wednesday 9 October 2024

• 09.00 Student partnerships in open education addressing power dynamics and belonging in STEM teaching. Glenda Cox, Sarah Stanlick, Marja Bakermans, Anna Gold, Lori Ostapowicz-Critz, Courtney Kurlanska, Bianca Masuku and Michelle Wilmers (University of Cape Town and Worcester Polytechnic Institute).
• 11.00 Decisions, Decisions: Interrogating Knowledge and Skills Needed for Open Educational Practices Stacy Katz and Jennifer Van Allen (Lehman College)
• 11.30 A decade of the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN): Where next? Robert Farrow, Beck Pitt, Carina Bossu (OUUK).
• 14.30 Bridging the Divide: exploring open educational resources (OER) and bookstore partnerships. Rachel Becker and Holly Deering (Madison Area Technical College).
• 15.00 Fostering OER leadership through facilitation pathways. Stacy Katz, Apurva Ashok, Bryan McGeary, Liza Long and Joel Gladd (Lehman College, The Rebus Foundation, Penn State, College of Western Idaho).
• 15.00 Forging partnerships to navigate difficult conversations. Kathy Essmiller (Oklahoma State).

Thursday 10 October 2024

• 10.00 Students’ perceptions of a course syllabus designed to foreground open educational practices. Rajiv Jhanghiani, Lindsey Gwozdz, Oya Pakkal and Anita Twele (Brock University and Community College of Rhode Island).
• 11.00 Open Education at a Crossroads. Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniewicz (Independent Scholar and University of Cape Town).
• 12.00 An open pedagogy toolkit: A multi-institutional collaboration centred on care and community. Elaine Kaye, Jeanne Hoover, Nicole Wilson, Kathy Essmiller, Mandi Goodsett and Cheryl Cullier (Oklahoma State).

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• Using the ISAT2 to assess the capacity to support open educational practices across Ontario. Rajiv Jhanghiani, Oya Pakkal, Robert Luke and Catherine Lachaine (Brock University, eCampusOntario and University of Ottawa)

This post was updated on 5 September 2024.