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OEGlobal 2023 : Call for Sponsors

Isla Haddow-Flood on June 29, 2023

OEG in Action

Five Members of the OEGlobal Board Elected

The Open Education Global (OEG) Board of Directors elections in 2023 have now concluded. There were five Board positions to be filled. Based on votes, the five OEG Board members elected […]

Isla Haddow-Flood on June 13, 2023

News, OEGlobal Conference

OEGlobal23 Conference Updates

OE Global and Norquest College, co-hosts of the OEGlobal 2023 Conference, are pleased to announce that registrations are open. Take advantage of the discounted Early Bird rate that ends on August 15.

Isla Haddow-Flood on June 12, 2023

News, OE Awards

Nominations Open for the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence

Open Education Global has open nominations for the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence (OE Awards). OE Awards is an annual celebration of innovation, advancement, and leadership in the open education sector.

Isla Haddow-Flood on May 17, 2023

News, OEG in Action

Researching the Effectiveness of Open Educational Resource Policies

During the April 2023 meeting of the Network of Open Organisations, Neil Butcher from South Africa-based Neil Butcher Associates (NBA) presented their latest research on the effectiveness of OER policies. […]

Isla Haddow-Flood on May 2, 2023

News, OEWeek

OE Week 2023 – a fantastic celebration of Open Education!

During the week of March 6–10 there was a global explosion of open education activity and incredible events – there were 431 total contributions to OE Week 2023.

Isla Haddow-Flood on March 28, 2023

News, OEWeek

Twelve Episodes of OEWeek Live Coverage and Conversation

Another successful Open Education Week has zoomed by including hundreds of global events and resources shared. As usual, there is too much happening to take it all in during one […]

Alan Levine on March 20, 2023

News, OEG Board of Directors, OEG Members

Nominations are Open for the OEGlobal Board of Directors

Open Education Global (OEGlobal) is actively recruiting nominations for members of its Board of Directors. We seek passionate educational leaders of high integrity committed to improving education through open educational practices.

Isla Haddow-Flood on March 14, 2023

News, OEG Members

Hoʻokipa pumehana | A warm welcome for OEGlobal and the RLOE program in Hawaiʻi

On March 2nd, she was excited to kick start OEweek events by hosting an Open Pedagogy workshop with participants from Kapi’olani Community College and others from the 10-campus University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges System.

Isla Haddow-Flood on March 10, 2023

News, OEG Members

OE LATAM Surveys

Originally posted in Spanish on the OELATAM website OE LATAM has launched a series of surveys to gather information on the open education initiatives that are being developed in the […]

Isla Haddow-Flood on March 6, 2023

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OEG Voices 079: Significant Impact OER Award Winner Confident Supervisors

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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

2024 Significant Impact OER Award (OE Global)
Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers (James Cook University Open eBooks) Chapters by guests include
- Chapter 1. Approaches to Supervision (Christine Bruce; Ian Stoodley; and Susan Gasson)
- Chapter 2. Supervision: Accounting for Time (Susan Gasson)
- Chapter 3. Collaboration as a Supervisory Practice (Christine Bruce and Susan Gasson)
- Chapter 8. Supervising International Higher Degree Researchers from Non-English Speaking Countries (Santosh Jatrana and Susan Gasson)
- Chapter 9. Building Literacies for the Research Lifecycle (Claire Ovaska and Stephen Anderson_
- Chapter 11. Empowering Higher Degree Researchers’ Career Planning (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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