The Open Education Global (OEGlobal) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the election of a new Vice President and the appointment of two new members in February 2025.
In keeping with the recent tradition of having two Vice Presidents on the OEGlobal Board (as announced in 2023), at the recently held OEGlobal Board Meeting, Glenda Cox was officially elected as the second Vice President. She succeeds Lisa Young, who served in this position until 2024.
The OEGlobal Board Office Bearers are :
- Perrine de Coëtlogon (France), President
- Constance Blomgren (Canada), Vice President
- Glenda Cox (South Africa), Vice President
- Hsu-Tien (Marian) Wan (Taiwan), Treasurer
At the same meeting, the OEGlobal board was honoured to be joined by two additional members: Shironica P. Karunanayaka (Open University of Sri Lanka) and Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou (Centre d’Expertise International de Montréal en Intelligence Artificielle (CEIMIA) and the Université de Yaoundé II (ESSTIC, Cameroon).
Meet the newly appointed Board Members
Associate Professor Glenda Cox works in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at OEGlobal Member University of Cape Town (UCT). Her portfolio at UCT includes postgraduate teaching, curriculum change projects, Open Education, and staff development. She holds the UNESCO chair in Open Education and Social Justice (2021-2025) and is a member of the UNITWIN network on Open Education (2024-2028). She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Students as Partners (joined in 2022). She is passionate about the role of Open Education in the changing world of Higher Education. Associate Professor Cox is the Principal Investigator in the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative. Her current research includes analysing the role of open textbooks for social justice.
Shironica P. Karunanayaka is a Senior Professor in Educational Technology at the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). She is a former Dean of the Faculty of Education and Head of the Department of Secondary and Tertiary Education. Currently, she is the Director of the Centre for Educational Technology and Media (CETMe) at OUSL. She has been an academic at OUSL since 1993. Shironica holds a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Wollongong, Australia, specializing in information technology in education and training.
She served as an Honorary Adviser to the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) from 2019 to 2021, and from April 2023, she was appointed as a COL Chair (Teacher Education). Shironica is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Innovative Practices in Education (JIPE) and Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (SLJSS) and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. Her key research interests include technology-enhanced learning, learning experience design, open educational resources (OER), and open educational practices (OEP). She has led several research projects related to OER, OEP, MOOCs, Digital Education, and Teacher Education, with international collaborations. Shironica has published widely and received many institutional, national, and international awards.
Dr. Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou is a distinguished scholar, researcher, and advocate for Open Science, Open Access, and Knowledge Equity in the Global South. Holding a PhD in Communication from Université Laval (Canada), his research delves into epistemic justice, decolonial knowledge systems, the role of Open Science in sustainable local development, and the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Currently, Dr. Mboa Nkoudou is a Researcher-in-Residence at the Centre d’Expertise International de Montréal en Intelligence Artificielle (CEIMIA) and an Assistant Professor of Communication at the Université de Yaoundé II (ESSTIC, Cameroon). His work focuses on the governance of knowledge commons, data sovereignty, and the ethical integration of AI in Africa. Read more about Dr. Nkoudou here.
Image: Photo of Scrabble board spelling out “Team” “Lead” “Succeed” by Nick Fewings on Unsplash (Unsplash licence applies)
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