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OE Global has 5 openings for Interns from 2022-3

There are five openings for Interns at Open Education Global between 2022 and 2023.

Two of these positions are Open Education Latin America (OE LATAM) internships, that will require Spanish-speaking individuals who are proficient in English.  The work they will develop is in Spanish. 

1. Tech Intern 

The Tech Intern will work with the tech team on OE Global technology infrastructure, which is primarily based on Python and Django and other (mostly open) technologies. Some of the plans in the upcoming year include: Consolidating WordPress websites and migration to Wagtail CMS, updating Django-based Open Education Week website, and upgrading the CRM. This work will be open sourced, and the tech intern is welcome to use all the code and skills for future career development. OE Global will be happy to provide a reference upon successful completion of the internship. — Interest in Python and Django and eagerness to learn more is required. JavaScript skills are welcome, although not required. Interest in DevOps (Docker, CI/CD) is a plus. The OE Global team is around the world, mostly in EU / US time zones. We work asynchronously.

2. Communications and Community Engagement support

This role focuses on two interlinked tasks:

  • Communications Support facilitates active engagement on social networks, websites, and forum platforms (such as OEG Connect) between the global education community and the OEGlobal community and its members. This will involve uploading, supporting, and engaging via communications campaigns on social media
  • Community Engagement involves engaging OEGlobal members and the wider open education and open communities via one-on-one interactions and community-wide surveys to establish trends, needs, and blockages within the global open education community. It will involve sector research, community navigation, member profiling, survey creation, community interviews, and leading discussions on OEG Connect, etc. towards an annual open education ‘state of’ and ‘future trends’ report.

3. Open Education Language Support | Apoyo lingüístico de OEGlobal

Act as a language representative for OEGlobal. Assist with translation of communications (English-Spanish), network research, community navigation, starting and leading discussions on OEG Connect, etc. 

Expected outcome – updated OE LATAM website and improved OEGlobal bilingual representation/participation.

Actuar como representante lingüístico de OEGlobal. Asistir con la traducción de comunicaciones (inglés-español), investigación de redes, navegación comunitaria, inicio y liderazgo de debates en OEG Connect, etc. 

Entregable: actualización del sitio OE LATAM y representación/participación bilingüe en el sitio de OEGlobal.

4. OELATAM Curator and Report Writer | Curaduría de contenidos de Educación Abierta LATAM y elaboración de informe

Find, collect, and curate content and data on the Internet about open education initiatives, projects, and efforts in Latin-American to determine the current state of open education in the region. 

Expected outcome: publish a Report on the State of Open in Latin America.

Necessary skills:

  • Web navigator, understand Open and be well organized. 
  • Bilingual, Spanish-English

Responsable de encontrar, recopilar y seleccionar contenidos y datos en Internet sobre iniciativas, proyectos y esfuerzos de educación abierta en América Latina para determinar el estado actual de la educación abierta en la región.

Entregable: Informe sobre el estado del arte de la educación abierta en América Latina.

Responsabilidades:

  • localizar y evaluar contenidos relevantes
  • clasificar, organizar y estructurar los contenidos de manera significativa
  • contextualizar la información encontrada para ayudar a representar el estado actual de la educación abierta en América Latina
  • desarrollar, presentar y compartir un reporte final con los hallazgos

Habilidades:

  • Conocimiento de educación abierta
  • Experiencia y capacidad de investigación en Internet
  • Bilingüe, español-inglés

5. OELATAM Tutorial Developer | Creación de tutorial de educación abierta para Latino América

Provide visual content and help develop a series of “How-to Open” tutorials in Spanish. Choose the best visual media for each lesson and plan, design, and create the resource. 

Expected outcome: 10 lessons “How-to Open” Tutorial Series

Necessary skills:

  • Strong visual communications background and understand Open. 
  • Bilingual, Spanish-English

Ayudar a crear una serie de tutoriales de cómo hacer educación abierta (How-to’s) en español aportando con apoyos visuales (gráficos y videos).

Entregable: 10 lecciones en una serie de tutoriales “Cómo hacer educación abierta”

Responsabilidades:

  • Planificar, diseñar y crear medios visuales para cada lección
  • Reutilizar contenidos y estandarizarlos con diseño y elementos visuales atractivos

Habilidades:

  • Experiencia en comunicación visual (diseño y desarrollo de sitios web, producción de videos, ilustración y/o diseño gráfico)
  • Experiencia en creación y actualización de sitios web (WordPress)
  • Bilingüe, español-inglés
Apply for any of the internships here.

More information about the Internships

Pasantías en el OEGlobal

Description | Descripción

Interns are students, newcomers or practitioners in the open education field looking to gain experience by working on OEGlobal development and capacity building activities.  

Los pasantes son estudiantes, recién egresados o profesionales en el campo de la educación abierta que buscan adquirir experiencia trabajando en actividades de desarrollo de capacidades en el OEGlobal.

Role / Activities | Rol / Actividades

Interns work on important OEGlobal strategic and operational activities. Connect with other field builders in dedicated OEGlobal field builders’ virtual space and through organized meetups.

Los pasantes trabajan en actividades estratégicas y operativas de OEGlobal. Se conectan con la red de impulsores del OEGlobal en espacios virtuales designados y a través de reuniones organizadas.

Expected outcomes | Expectativas

For Interns | Para los Pasantes:

The intern will:

  • get regional and global recognition as an OEGlobal open education intern including listing on OEGlobal’s website
  • gain experience in open education
  • develop a network of contacts in the open education field
  • build a base of professional experience supported by an OEGlobal letter of reference outlining their deliverables and outcomes at the end of their intern term

El pasante:

  • obtiene reconocimiento regional y mundial como pasante de educación abierta de OEGlobal, incluyendo mención en el sitio web de OEGlobal
  • acumula experiencia en educación abierta
  • es parte de la red de educación abierta. Desarrollar relaciones con líderes, expertos e impulsores en el campo de la educación abierta 
  • construye una base de experiencia profesional respaldada por una carta de referencia de OEGlobal que describa sus entregas y resultados al final de su pasantía

For OEGlobal | Para OEGlobal:

The intern will:

  • help advance an area of strategic or operational importance for OEGlobal
  • bring fresh ideas and perspectives to OEGlobal work
  • build and enhance OEGlobal capacity and reach
  • meet with and actively communicate with other OEGlobal interns helping build a network of professional peers

El pasante:

  • ayuda a avanzar en un área de importancia estratégica u operativa para OEGlobal
  •  aporta nuevas ideas y perspectivas al trabajo de OEGlobal
  • crea y mejora la capacidad y el alcance de OEGlobal
  • se reúne y comunica activamente con otros pasantes de OEGlobal para ayudar a construir una red de pares profesionales

Eligibility | Elegibilidad

  • An intern is a 12 months, part time, entirely remote contractor.
  • Job starts in July 2022
  • Interns receive $5,000 USD
  • Must have some experience or knowledge of open education
  • Interns are not required to be OEGlobal members though preference will be given to interns coming from OEGlobal members.
  • Interns are selected via application process in response to specific OEGlobal opportunities.
  • Interns will have a direct reporting relationship to an OEGlobal staff member who will direct and supervise their intern work.
  • Interns must have a computer and internet access.
  • Duración de la pasantía: 12 meses
  • Fecha de inicio, Julio 2022
  • Remuneración: $5,000 USD
  • El trabajo es de tiempo parcial y completamente remoto
  • Se espera que los pasantes trabajen de manera autónoma (freelance) y no bajo contrato laboral con el OEGlobal
  • No se requiere que los pasantes sean miembros de OEGlobal, aunque se dará preferencia a los solicitantes que provengan de instituciones miembros.
  • Los pasantes se seleccionan sólo en respuesta a las oportunidades publicadas por el OEGlobal.
  • Los pasantes se reportan directamente con un miembro del personal de OEGlobal quien dirige y supervisa su trabajo como pasante.

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OE Global Voices

Welcome to the home of podcasts produced by Open Education Global. These shows bring you insight and connection to the application of open education practices from around the world. Listen at podcast.oeglobal.org

OEG Voices 074: Tony Bates and A Personal History of Open Education

Join us for a wide ranging conversation with Tony Bates covering his long and on ongoing span of being active in open and distance education. We start from his being part of the very first days of the Open University through his years based in Canada but working globally being integral to the development of online learning through the web. He has long been publishing open textbooks and sharing his perspectives on his own website. We go right up to present day where Tony is active in exploring the role of artificial intelligence.

We were inspired to have these conversation having seen where Tony has been publishing on his blog his “personal history” now up to it’s 26th installment:

I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning. I thought I would share these as there seems to be a growing interest in the history of educational technology.

Note that these posts are NOT meant to be deeply researched historical accounts, but how I saw and encountered developments in my personal life.

Tony Bates blog

In the OEGlobal Voices studio with Tony Bates (left) and Alan Levine (right)

Listen in for Tony’s insightful energy, critical perspective, and humor as well as his lived stories of experience through a long era of online and open education. Plus, you will find a surprising bit of extra history on how he might have influenced some other students he knew in primary school who went on to be famous.

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In This Episode

FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by AI Actions in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices.

Podcast Show Notes: OE Global Voices Episode 74: Tony Bates

In this enlightening episode of OE Global Voices, host Alan Levine is joined by the remarkable Dr. Tony Bates, an influential figure in the realm of open education.

Episode Highlights:

  • Introduction to Tony Bates: Discover the journey of a legend in open education, from his beginnings in England to key contributions at the Open University and beyond.
  • Open Education Insight: Tony discusses the limitations and potential of open education resources today, sharing insights rooted in his extensive experience.
  • Founding of the Open University: Gain behind-the-scenes knowledge of how the Open University was envisioned and established, expanding access to higher education with innovative methods such as integrating print, radio, and TV.
  • Role in Online Learning: Learn about Tony’s pioneering role in developing online learning approaches and his transition from traditional educational systems to digital landscapes.
  • Publishing and Open Resources: Tony candidly shares why he embraced open publishing, emphasizing accessibility and the benefits of keeping educational resources current.
  • Reflections on Artificial Intelligence: Tony offers a balanced view of AI’s potential and risks, particularly concerning big tech companies’ influence.

About Tony Bates:
Tony Bates has been a transformative presence in education, contributing through teaching, leadership, research, and writing. He’s known for his candid take on the state of education, often sharing personal anecdotes from his storied career.

Get Engaged:
Listen as Tony Bates reflects on a career filled with innovation, humor, and lasting impact. Follow up on our discussions about educational technology and AI.

This episode is accompanied by the musical track “Distance” by Anitek, fittingly chosen to reflect the expansive themes of Tony’s work. Visit OEGlobal Voices for more episodes and join our community discussions at OEG Connect.

Don’t miss this journey through impactful education landscapes with Tony Bates. Subscribe and engage with us for future insights and conversations.

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What happened was that I actually saw the internet for the first time in Vancouver when I was visiting a friend. I thought this is the best way to use computers in education, not this, programmed learning stuff, which I didn’t really like because it wasn’t in my view, achieving the higher level cognitive skills that you’d want from university students. It’s all about memorization and so on.

So I thought, yes, we can use computers for communication between students and between students and instructors, that’s great. And a colleague, Tony Kay and I we tried this out on a social science second level course called DT 200.

Tony Bates on early vision for online education

From very interesting things like audio, we found that generally, you know, this is a generalization, doesn’t apply to everybody. But most people that we researched found audio more personal, that they felt they got closer to the lecturer through listening to an audio, a radio broadcaster or an audio cassette. The other thing was that we found that cassettes, actually changed the design principles because students could stop and start. You could build that into the design of a cassette. And then the learning effectiveness went right up.

We had a perfect laboratory situation where we had exactly the same program in audio and radio and exactly the same as a recording. Then we could look at what students learn as a result. We could then change the design of the cassettes and see what happened then and look at the results. Because we had such large numbers of students, we got very statistically significant results.

Tony Bates on early research on use of audio for learning

My take on it, I’m fairly pessimistic. Mainly because my real concern these days is about the power of the big tech companies. I fear it will be taken over by the big tech companies. We’ll see their share prices and stocks go up and the money will go to the venture capitalists. And we’ll all be worse off as a result.

That’s the negative part about it. Now on the positive side, I think yes, in medical research, in legal affairs, it will be very good. I met a colleague, a good friend of mine actually, who’s trying to do research on whether AI can actually improve on the instructional design process.

Tony Bates on Artificial Intelligence

We are counting on more blog posts from you, Tony!

Our open licensed music for this episode is a track called Distance by Anitek licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist).

This was another episode we are recording on the web in Squadcast. This is 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 unless indicated otherwise.

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