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OEGlobal Board Announces Andreia Inamorato dos Santos as the OEGlobal Executive Director

OEGlobal is thrilled to announce Andreia Inamorato dos Santos (PhD) as our new Executive Director starting November 16, 2022.

Andreia is a researcher, a teacher, and a champion for open education with over 25 years of experience working internationally with institutions in Latin America, Europe, USA, and Africa.
An established member and contributor to the OEGlobal community, Andreia is well known for her energy, passion, and dedication to open education in all of its forms. In 2016, she spearheaded the development of the European Framework for Open Education as lead author, which gave rise to follow-up projects and initiatives in EU Member States, some of which have been mapped in the Going Open: OpenEdu Policies project, involving 28 Member States. 

In 2019, she was appointed as the European Commission representative in the OER Recommendation meetings at UNESCO headquarters having had the opportunity to follow the OER Recommendation process closely in the regional meetings in Latin America and Europe.
Andreia has made significant scholarly contributions to the field with research focused on OER, open education practices, and policies. She holds a PhD in Educational Technologies and a Master of Science in Research Methods for Educational Technology, both from the Open University. She also holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies in English from São Paulo University (USP). Thanks to this wide range of knowledge and experience, Andreia has led several impactful projects to reimagine policies related to open concepts and the digital commons.

Born and raised in Brazil, Andreia has long-standing connections throughout the LATAM region and across Europe. A true global citizen, she has lived and worked in three countries and on two continents. She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

It has been a joy getting to know Andreia throughout the recruitment process. Her warm energy is coupled with deep intelligence and care for the OEGlobal staff, members, and community. Together, we share a vision for OEGlobal that builds on the strategy set out in the 2021-2030 Strategic Plan, Open for Public Good.

As we enter this next chapter, we extend sincere gratitude to Paul Stacey for his caring and thoughtful leadership over the past five years. You can read about Paul’s next steps here and thank him for his contribution to Open Education here. Thanks also to the OEG staff, members of the Board, our funders, and the community for your support throughout this leadership transition journey. 
Please join us in welcoming Andreia to her new position as Executive Director of Open Education Global! Post your welcome message below. 
 
Signed, with appreciation,
The OEGlobal Board and Staff:

  • Alan Levine, Strategy & Engagement Director, Canada
  • Cathy M. Casserly, Board Member, USA
  • Constance Blomgren, Board Member, Canada
  • Diana Hernández, Board Member, Costa Rica
  • Hsu-Tien (Marian) Wan, Treasurer, Taiwan
  • Igor Lesko, Director of Operations, South Africa
  • Isla Haddow-Flood, Director of Communications, South Africa
  • Jan Gondol, Director of Technology, Slovakia
  • Katsusuke Shigeta, Board Member, Japan
  • Lena Patterson, President of the Board, Canada
  • Lisa Young, Board Member, USA
  • Liz Yata, Manager of CCCOER Communities, United States
  • Marcela Morales, Director of Community Relations, Mexico
  • María Soledad Ramírez Montoya (Marisol), Board Member, Mexico
  • Mario Badilla, Creative Director, Costa Rica
  • Martin Dougiamas, Board Member, Australia
  • Noureddine Zemmouri, Board Member, Algeria
  • Paul Stacey, Executive Director, Ex-Officio Board Member, Canada
  • Perrine de Coëtlogon, Board Member, France
  • Rachel Zhang, Director of Finance, United States
  • Una Daly, Director of Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), United States
  • Willem van Valkenburg, Past President of the Board, Netherlands

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OEG Voices 078: Significant Impact OER Award Winner Frontiers for Young Minds
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OEG Voices 078: Significant Impact OER Award Winner Frontiers for Young Minds

Put this episode of OE Global Voices on your “Must Listen List” and be prepared for waves of inspiration and awe for Frontiers for Young Minds, an outstanding project that publishes on the order of 250 papers a year on complex areas of science. But more importantly, these papers are written for kids and reviewed by kids in a process that, when you hear it, will make it clear why Frontiers for Young Minds was recognized with a 2024 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Significant Impact category.

Frontiers for Young Minds https://kids.frontiersin.org/

Frontiers for Young Minds believes that the best way to make cutting-edge science discoveries available to younger audiences is to enable young people and scientists to work together to create articles that are both top quality and exciting.

Distinguished scientists are invited to write about their discoveries in a language that is accessible for young readers, and it is then up to the kids themselves – with the help of a science mentor – to provide feedback and explain to the authors how to best improve the articles before publication.

This unique process produces a collection of freely available scientific articles by leading scientists, shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers.

https://kids.frontiersin.org/about/journal/

In this episode we will learn more about the journal and its publishing process, but also dive into an example of how a paper on the science of secrets was drafted by clinical psychologists at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), reviewed by kids in the Science Club at Disley Primary School (United Kingdom) mentored by neuroscientist Caroline Lea-Carnall at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and then published in the Frontiers for Young Minds journal as Shhh! What Are Secrets and How Do They Affect Us?

In the podcast recording studio with top row, left to right) Laura Henderson and Hedwig Ens (Frontiers for Young Minds) and bottom row,Caroline Lea-Carnall (University of Manchester), Ildikó Csizmazia and Minita Franzen (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

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 OE Global Voices, host Alan Levine delves into the inspirational story behind the award-winning project, “Frontiers for Young Minds,” which uniquely involves children in the peer-review process of scientific articles aimed at young readers. Alan engages with key figures including Laura Henderson, head of the program, along with contributors and reviewers Caroline Lea-Carnall, Hedwig Ens, Ildikó Csizmazia, and Minita Franzen. They discuss the project’s origins, its mission to make complex scientific concepts accessible and engaging for kids, and the enriching experience it provides for both young reviewers and established scientists. The conversation highlights the project’s significant impact on science communication and education, celebrating its collaborative spirit and success in fostering a new generation of science enthusiasts.

  • Intro Music, Opening Quotes, and Welcome
  • Meet the Guests: Laura Henderson and Team
  • The Origin Story of Frontiers for Young Minds
  • The Review Process: Kids as Gatekeepers
  • The Impact of the Project on Kids and Scientists
  • Future Plans and Closing Remarks

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Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 78

 It was very interesting to see their thinking was about the whole idea. There were places where we [thought] this might be an important part to share, but there is not really much research on that so we cannot say anything.

So I just didn’t [add] anything in the article. And then kids were like, “Okay, but can you tell us something about it? Is there research on it?” I liked that feedback.

They also picked up on the positive things — this made us enthusiastic to continue to incorporate their feedback. And we really thought we are contributing and doing something that younger readers also find very important.

Ildikó Csizmazia on responding to the reviewers

One of the great privileges of our work is that we work with the most engaged, the most passionate people, the researchers, the science mentors, the kids themselves. It’s a kind of self-selecting group who come to be part of what we do. And the real common thread is always that passion and that engagement.

So it gives us energy and thank you to everybody who’s been part of our process, the people here on this call today, so Ildikó, Minita, Caroline, but also all of our authors, science mentors, editors, young reviewers who’ve been part of our process over the years.

We’ve worked with about 900 editors and 9,000 plus young reviewers in 65 countries and however many authors, it’s, an incredible number of authors.

Laura Henderson, Frontiers for Young Minds


Our open licensed music for this episode is a track calledScience Summit by Serge Quadrado licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 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 showsWe have been exploring some of the other AI features in Descriptbut our posts remain human authored except where indicated otherwise.