Open Education Influencers and Capacity Building with OER (OEGlobal22)
Channel: Open Education Global
Date: 2022-05-25

OEGlobal 22 Presentation by Gino Fransman 

The Open Education Influencers project is based at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa. Started in 2018, the project has focussed strongly upon student empowerment through processes of doing, part of both a personal and professional development strategy for student staff in the LTCollab. An output of this process has seen the successful creation of a student empowerment online course titled ‘Becoming an Open Education Influencer’, or BOEI. BOEI has 6 modules, each intended to empower users to act as facilitators of change, most often in education up to this point, and most usually through the use and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER). In 2021, student leaders at MandelaUni took BOEI as part of their leadership development within the How2Buddies Programme at the institution, moving on to assist thousands of first year entrants into campus life. Several students and staff have supplied feedback to the experience and value of engaging with BOEI, which in this session, is shared with attendees.

https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/open-education-influencers-and-capacity-building-with-oer/3789