KEN2022: Gino Fransman's provocation speech
Channel: Knowledge Equity Network
Date: 2023-03-28

KEN2022: Gino Fransman's provocation speech focusing on reducing inequalities through opening access to Higher Education.


Gino Fransman
Founder and Project Leader Open Education Influencers, Nelson Mandela University

Gino Fransman is the founder and leader of the Open Education Influencers project (https://openedinfluencers.mandela.ac.za) at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.

He is the current Africa Hub Coordinator for the UNESCO Open Education for a Better World [OE4BW] programme, a mentor and previous project author in the programme. His highly collaborative Open online course for student empowerment and advocacy is titled Becoming an Open Education Influencer (BOEI) and is a student empowerment and advocacy tool for innovation in education through Open.

The BOEI course is available on the Open LMS at https://engage.mandela.ac.za/course/view.php?id=19. He is a member of the OE4BW Advisory Board and the recent winner of the Open Education Global Emerging Leader Award.