1. Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
22 May 2014
CILT Brown Bag Seminar
Reviewing GO-GN Workshop 2 & OCWC 2014
from the ROER4D perspective

2. Global OER Graduate Network &
Open CourseWare Consortium Global
Met in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 21-15 April 2014

3. Where in the world is Slovenia?
http://foodtourslovenia.wordpress.com/
• About 2 million people
• Area = 20,273 km2
• Density = about 100 per
km2
• Slovenia is the 3rd most
forested country in Europe,
with 58.5% of the territory
covered by forests
1918 – Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1945 – Republic of Yugoslavia
1991 – Slovenia independence
2004 – Joined European Union

4. Capital city of Slovenia: Ljubljana
• Population=
274,826
• Density =
1,678/km2
• 63,000
enrolled
undergraduate
and graduate
students at the
University of
Ljubljana
http://www.climb-europe.com/RockClimbingSlovenia.htm

6. Grand Hotel Union
(1905)

10. Clever conference programming
• GO-GN
– 2 days of PhD seminars before the conference
– 2 days of a GO-GN Research track in the conference
• OCWC
– 1 day of Pre-conference Workshops
– 3 days with keynotes; 4 parallel tracks (Dissemination,
Pedagogical, Policy, Research); poster spotlights & poster
display; and a video journal
• Webcamp (Computer Science Department, University
of Ljubljana)
– 1 day of specialist “geek speak” (e.g. Why Flash sucks and
it’s not the right time for HTML5; IPv6: The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly; Vagrant & Puppet)

11. Global OER Graduate Network
(GO-GN) 21-25 April 2014

12. GO-GN Students (14 of the 25)
Go-GN students Country of origin Country where studying
Dimitar Macedonia Finland
Bernardo Spain Netherlands
Rosa, Marta, Franciso Spain Spain
Victor Chile Spain
Allannah New Zealand Canada
Dalila, Paula Portugal Portugal
Nicolai Netherlands Netherlands
Nicholas Greece Spain
Judith Kenya Netherlands
Gino South Africa South Africa
Anne Denmark Sweden

13. GO-GN students and supervisors
Cheryl
Hodgkinson-
Williams
(South Africa)
ROER4D PI
Judith Pete
(Kenya)
ROER4D Sub-Project 2
Prof Fred Mulder
(Netherlands)
ROER4D Advisory Group
Victor Barragán
(Chile)
Associated with
ROER4D Sub-
Project 9

14. GO-GN student & ROER4D researcher:
Judith Pete

15. ROER4D Sub-Project 2: OER Survey
Prof Jose Dutra
(Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* 3 countries,
* 12 institutions
Prof Daryono
(Jakarta, Indonesia)
* 3 countries,
* 12 institutions
Dr George Sciadas
(Ottawa, Canada)
Statistician
Judith Pete
(Nairobi, Kenya & PhD
student in GO-GN)
* 3 countries,
* 12 institutions
Prof Stavros Xanthopoylos
(FGV, Rio, Brazil)
Mentor, AG
GO-GN

16. OCWC Global: Open Education for a
Multicultural World 23-25 April 2014

17. OCWC 2014 23-25 April 2014

18. Openingup Slovenia
Prof Fred Mulder
(Netherlands)
ROER4D Advisory Group

19. Openingup Education in the EU

20. Openingup Slovenia

21. Dr Rob Farrow presents on OER Impact

22. OER Research Hub:
Map of OER evidence nodes

23. OER Research Hub:
Map of OER projects

24. UCT on the OER Policy Map

25. OER Research Hub:
Example of Policy Impact

26. ROER4D to collaborate on OER
Research Hub Evidence Map
ROER4D will
contribute to Research
Hub Evidence Map &
possibly use map for
visualising ROER4D
information

27. OER Research Hub Research Process
Some similar processes to ROER4D

28. ROER4D meet with OER Research Hub
Rob Farrow likely to
advise and/or run
workshops for ROER4D
Impact Studies

29. OER Research Hub review on Storify
ROER4D may also use
Storify to review the
next conference

30. Storify to tell a multimedia story

31. South American perspective 1
Amalia Toledo and Carolina Botero are part of the ROER4D
Sub-Project 12

32. ROER4D Sub-Project 12: Educational Expenditure
Carolina Botero &
Amalia Toledo
(Bogota, Colombia)
Carolina Rossini
(Brazil/USA)
Mentor, AG
Funded by
Open Society Foundations

33. Sub-Projects 9 & 10: OER Impact Studies
Maria Ng
PI – OER Impact &
Vivien Chiam
(Singapore)
+/-10 projects
Wawasan Open University
(Call for proposals)
Prof Raj Dhanarajan
& SuanChoo Khoo
(Penang, Malaysia)
Prof Fred Mulder
(Netherlands)
Mentor, AG
Funded by
Funded by
Werner Westermann &
Juan Ignacio Venegas
Mugli
(Santiago, Chile)
* 1 country
GO-GN
Víctor Barragán
working in association
with Werner
Westermann presented
his PhD ideas at the
GO-GN Workshop

34. ROER4D Twitter

35. Cheryl provided an overview of
ROER4D

36. Cheryl interviewed by Beck Pitt from
OER Research Hub

37. ROER4D Stickers alongside other OER
initiatives, Creative Commons, etc

38. OCWC used Eventifier to aggregate

39. Eventifier to archive events

40. Dr Juan Klopper from UCT
wins OCWC Award
Dr Juan Klopper

41. OER Hub win the OCWC OER Research Award

42. ROER4D members at OCWC Awards
evening
Prof Stavros
Xanthopoylos

43. OCWC changes name to
Open Education Consortium

44. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License.
Written by Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
cheryl.hodgkinson-williams@uct.ac.za in
2014
Graphics by Rondine Carstens and Cheryl
Hodgkinson-Williams
rondine.carstens@uct.ac.za

45. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License.
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