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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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OEG Voices 079: Significant Impact OER Award Winner Confident Supervisors

We continue to catch up on highlighting last year’s Open Education Awards for Excellence. In this episode we hear from five of the 31 authors of chapters in Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers which was recognized with a 2024 Significant Impact OE Award. The significant of this resource was not only its filling a gap of open education resources (OERs) for supporting graduate supervisors but also for its focus on smaller universities and universities in less developed countries with limited access to resources and support for this topic.

While this podcast was recorded back in October of last year, featuring this work now is appropriate as the process for nominations for the 2025 will begin in the next few months. The team’s pride in their award was reflected in the update of the OER’s cover image added shortly before we went into the recording studio.

Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers

And what we were really looking for was to provide supervisory practice information to very much be a get up and find what you need to know to supervise, maybe in five minutes, with somebody who you’ve got an issue with, or work with a supervisor who perhaps you wanted to invite onto the team, but you’re not sure how to make that happen.

So each of the chapters begins with, three sort of, or three to five points saying, “why would you read this chapter? Whatcha gonna find out?”, a little video that just introduces the author and tells you a little bit about it, an introduction, some crunchy content, and then each chapter finishes off with some resources…. different sorts of things all aimed at helping supervisors, supervisor developers, and leaders of supervision within universities and within research centers to be able to build these collaborative cultures where supervisors feel supported, feel enabled, and build capacity to create the next generation of researchers.

Confident Supervisors Editor Susan Gasson

This conversation was coordinated by project lead and editor Susan Gasson and we were joined from authors/editors of Confident Supervisors from several Australian universities.

In the podcast recording studio with clockwise from top left, Susan Gasson. Claire Ovaska, jill Blacker, and Alan McAlpine. Not pictured but part of the conversation was Santosh Jatrana.
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FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by the AI “Underlord” in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices.

In this episode, hosted by Alan Levine from Open Education Global, we dive into the “Confident Supervisors” project, a significant OER (Open Educational Resource) recognized with an Open Education Award for Excellence in 2024. The project brings together a diverse team who created an open access book aimed at empowering higher degree research (HDR) supervisors with practical tools and strategies to support international and non-English speaking students.

We kick off with insights from several key contributors:

  • Susan Gasson shares her journey and inspiration behind the book, emphasizing the collaboration and global impact it has achieved.
  • Jill Blacker highlights her editorial experience and collaboration efforts.
  • Santosh Jatrana discusses the challenges and solutions for supervising international students, particularly from non-English speaking backgrounds.
  • Alan McAlpine offers insights on career support for HDR students, stressing the importance of providing effective career advice.
  • Claire Ovasca provides an overview of the open access movement and the library’s support in the project’s success.

The episode also explores future plans for a second volume that will address diversity, equity, and the use of different methodologies. The team discusses the impact of making such high-quality educational content freely accessible, showcasing a spirit of openness and collaboration.

This episode encapsulates the spirit of sharing knowledge, enhancing supervisory practices, and fostering a more inclusive and supportive academic environment globally. Tune in to hear the team’s passion and dedication towards making HDR education more accessible and impactful for everyone involved.

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So how can we best up skill supervisors to have conversations that are beyond their own experience? … we’ll give advice, all well-meaning and all very well, but not necessarily something that is overly helpful or opens up the options for that student that’s sitting in front of them.

So the chapter provides some tools and helping them to help the student think and be empowered to take control of their own destiny. And not necessarily to get into that advice giving type model, but more how to ask questions that give the students choice, that empower the student to go and find out more information, to empower the student to actually think about what’s the right decision for them.

And in doing that we create far more useful educated people back out into society. Whether that be within the academy or outside the academy, it doesn’t really matter. But these are students, are individuals that we are educating to a really high level. So that’s really what motivated me to get involved.

Alan McAlpine

It just makes total sense for me to make such a fantastic resource well known and well received. And so looking at our metrics, I can confidently say that we are getting users from those countries that we were hoping to reach. We have strong use in Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, India. And believe it or not, America and the United Kingdom are also strong users.

So we just cannot assume that every university in, what is supposedly a first world country, has the resourcing to support their supervisors, to support their HDR students.

Claire Ovaska

Working with Abbe, Susan and the rest of the team to develop style guides and to connect with the authors. to connect with people that I hadn’t worked with before and broaden my own network ,that way was really helpful. Developing some tools we had a very big spreadsheet which was the heart of everything we did and everything was tracked in that spreadsheet.

So it’s a little bit old school, but it really was the thing that kept us all on track. We could really see where everything was at, and it allowed us to stick to our schedule, building slippage time, and meet our really idealistic goal of getting it done by the end of last year, and we were able to do that.

Jill Blacker

We hope this conversation not only inspired you to review Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers but also to start tihnking about OER you have co-created or put to use in your own open education efforts that shoul;d be considered for a 2025 Open Education Award for Excellence. Stay tuned to the OE Awards web site to learn when nominations open.

Our open licensed music for this episode is a track calledConfidence by 1st Contact shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist).

Finally, this was another episode we are recording on the web in Squadcast, 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 except where indicated otherwise.

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