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.

In This Episode

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 of OEGlobal Voices, host Alan Levine engages in an inspiring conversation with Purvi Shah, a key member of the StoryWeaver initiative by Pratham Books in India. StoryWeaver, a community-driven digital platform, earned the 2023 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Curation Repository category.

Key Highlights:

Embracing Openness: Purvi discusses the organization’s decision to adopt open licensing to reach their mission of putting a book in every child’s hand. This shift from a traditional publishing model to an open platform allowed the community to create and translate stories, leading to the birth of StoryWeaver.

The Genesis of StoryWeaver: The platform was launched on International Literacy Day in 2015 with 800 stories in 24 languages. Today, it boasts an impressive collection of 60,000 stories in 370 languages, serving as a vast repository of multilingual and multicultural stories.

Innovative Features: StoryWeaver includes unique features such as “read-alongs,” which combine audio, video, and same-language subtitling to aid language learning and literacy. The platform also offers structured resources for teachers, such as thematic book lists and STEM programs.

Translations and Impact: Purvi shares stories about the extensive translations available on the platform. “Rani’s First Day at School” has been translated into 138 languages, demonstrating the community’s active participation. She also narrates heartwarming anecdotes about how these stories have impacted children and teachers around the world.

Community Contributions: The discussion highlights how users can contribute by translating stories or creating new ones using the platform’s vast library of images and easy-to-use creation tools. Purvi shares examples of innovative projects inspired by StoryWeaver, such as a literacy program developed in Mexico.

Future Goals: Looking ahead, Purvi emphasizes the importance of expanding the depth of stories in each language and leveraging the community’s strengths to ensure that every child can access a book in their mother tongue.

Alan and Purvi’s conversation encapsulates the essence of open education and the incredible work being done by the StoryWeaver team to foster literacy and inclusivity. The episode concludes with a recommendation to explore StoryWeaver and an acknowledgment of the upcoming Open Education Awards.

Tune in to OEGlobal Voices to dive deeper into the world of StoryWeaver and the transformative power of open education.

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Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 76

How can we work with the communities to increase the depth of languages? So that could be a potential future milestone. We were just discussing this in office the other day that it’s so interesting that while the platform has 370 languages and that’s a milestone in itself, but the real milestone is that for that one child reading the first book in their mother tongue is really the milestone.

We hit that milestone almost every day because every day a child is discovering a book in their mother tongue for the first time. That milestone will never get old, I think. And some of the other sort of milestones [has] been just not being a platform where we allow for stories, but say, when we created this whole different platform, the white label StoryWeaver for Room to Read in Indonesia and that helped kickstart their own platform called Literacy Cloud.

That was a pretty important milestone because whatever we have learned, we could empower other organizations. to build off our investments, our learning, in countries that they work with.

Purvi Shah on StoryWeaver’s milestones

The image of the reading octopus in this episode’s artwork is part the StoryWeaver web site, an illustration credited to Measa Sovonnarea.

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.