#TELresearchers with GO-GN was presented online on 7 March 2023. Original webinar announcement: https://telresearchers.substack.com/p/go-gn-0323

1. #TELresearchers with GO-GN
Lancaster University, 7 March 2022
Beck Pitt, Rob Farrow, Francisco Iniesto, Martin Weller and Carina
Bossu
This presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0 and incorporates a range of earlier GO-GN slidedecks, including those given at i-HE2022 and OE Global 2022.

2. • What is Open Education?
• What does openness mean to you?
• The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN)
• Member Research
• Examples of our own open practices
• EDI Guidelines
• Collaborative Research Outputs
• Get involved!
What we’re going to cover…

3. Open Education?
“…we use the term “open education” to encompass the
myriad of learning resources, teaching practices and
education policies that use the flexibility of OER to provide
learners with high quality educational experiences. Creative
Common defines OER as teaching, learning and research
materials that are either (a) in the public domain or (b)
licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and
perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities – retaining,
remixing, revising, reusing and redistributing the resources.”
Hewlett Foundation (n.d. highlight authors own)

4. https://go-
gn.net/gogn_o
utputs/opennes
s-and-
education-a-
beginners-
guide/
Openness and
education
a beginners guide

5. https://oeweek.oeglobal.org

6. What does openness mean to you?

7. What is GO-GN?
The aims of the GO-GN are to:
• raise the profile of research into open education
• offer support for those conducting doctoral research in
this area
• promote equity and inclusion in the field of open
education research
• develop openness as a process of research.

8. The Team
Professor Martin
Weller
Dr Beck Pitt Dr Robert Farrow Dr Francisco Iniesto Kylie Matthews
Dr Carina Bossu

9. The Network

10. The network
• 52 members and alumni in 2016
• 142 members and alumni in
September 2022
• 173% increase in members and
alumni since 2016
• As at September 2022 41
members (29%) from Global
South

11. The network

12. Exploring Openness
“I suddenly do not feel alone in my doctoral journey. It has
encouraged me to submit more academic writing for
consideration and nudged me along in my studies” (GO-
GN member, 2020)
“I believe that GO-GN has done an excellent job in
creating strong human bonds among its diverse
international members and that is the strongest asset it has.
That is for me what makes it unique and incredibly
powerful.” (Current GO-GN member, 2020)

13. Member Research

14. Category 2007 2015
Project case study 6 8
Technical 6 7
OER as subject 6 18
Research with Impact Data 3 7
Policy 15
Practitioner 11
OER for Development 2
MOOCs 36
Pedagogy 9
Open Practices 6
Total 26 119
OER Knowledge Cloud
Weller, M. (2016). Different Aspects of
the Emerging OER Discipline. Revista
Educacao e Cultura Contemporanea,
13(31). http://oro.open.ac.uk/47209/

15. Category 2016 2017 2022
Project case study 3 6 8
Technical 1 2 5
OER as subject 3 5 12
Research with Impact Data 2 6 8
Policy 3 6 8
Practitioner 10 10 26
OER for Development 4 5 9
MOOCs 11 12 19
Pedagogy 0 1 6
Open Practices 6 9 19
In progress 9 13 27
Total 52 75 147
GO-GN Member Research

16. Google Scholar: Citation Summary

17. • Core areas 2022: Open practices,
practitioners
• Emerging area: OER as subject
• Springboards and connections
between research
• Application of OER and OEP in
broad range of different contexts
Observations

18. Open Practice Example One:
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

19. Equity, diversity and Inclusion

20. EDI Guidelines Structure
• Definitions
• Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Justice, Equity, Diversity and
Inclusion (JEDI), Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility
(IDEA)
• OE initiatives in Africa and Latin America
• Phase 1: EDI in Africa
• Phase 2: Latin American context and findings
• GO-GN Guidelines for EDI in Open Education
• For higher education institutions
• For GO-GN
• For individual practitioners
• Conclusions and final considerations
https://go-gn.net/project-outputs/

21. GO-GN EDI Considerations
1. To create an environment in which individual differences and
contributions are recognised and valued.
2. To create an open research community that promotes dignity and
respect for everyone.
3. To make open research capacity building and development
opportunities available to needy students from Global South.
4. To promote equity, diversity and inclusion at all levels.
5. To encourage researchers and practitioners who feel they have
been subject to any form of injustice to raise their concerns so that
GO-GN can apply corrective measures for future growth.
6. To regularly review all GO-GN open practices and selection
procedures so that fairness, diversity, equity and inclusion are
upheld at all cost.

22. Open Practice Example Two:
Collaborative Research Outputs

25. Farrow, R. & Mathers, B. (2020). Conceptualising Research Methodology
for Doctoral Researchers in Open Education (with penguins) in Buckley,
C. and Nerantzi, C. (eds.) Special Issue on Exploring visual
representation of concepts in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education,
International Journal of Management and Applied Research 7(3).
http://ijmar.org/v7n3/20-025.html

28. Open Research Cycle

29. What aspects of openness would
you adopt?
• Data
• Ideas
• Thesis
• Tools
• Publications
• Viva
• Progress
• Any you would definitely not share?

30. Get involved!
@GOGN_OER #GO_GN
go-gn.net/join/
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.
All images are by Visual Thinkery for ALT (OER222 images) or GO-GN and are licensed CC BY 4.0.

31. Bibliography
de los Arcos, B. (2017, October). A review of PhD research into open education. ICDE World
Conference on Online Learning, Toronto, Canada. https://www.slideshare.net/GO-GN/a-
review-of-phd-research-into-open-education (Last accessed: 6 October 2022)
de los Arcos, B. (2016) Global OER Graduate Network: Raising the Profile of Research into
Open Education. EADTU Rome 2016. Retrieved from:
https://www.slideshare.net/BdelosArcos/global-oer-graduate-network-raising-the-profile-of-
research-into-open-education (Last accessed: 6 October 2022)
Farrow, R. Pitt, B, Iniesto, F. & Weller, M. (2022, May 23)The Global OER Graduate Network:
Open Research, Open Community, Open Values. OE Global 2022, Nantes, France.
Weller, M., Pitt, B., Iniesto, F., Farrow, R. and Bossu, C. (2022). Annual Review 2022. Global
OER Graduate Network. https://go-gn.net/gogn_outputs/annual-review-2022/(Last
accessed: 07 March 2023)
Weller, M. (2016) Emerging OER Discipline. Retrieved
from: https://www.slideshare.net/mweller/emerging-oer-discipline
Weller, M. (2016). Different Aspects of the Emerging OER Discipline. Revista Educacao e
Cultura Contemporanea, 13(31). http://oro.open.ac.uk/47209/ (Last accessed: 18 May
2022)