A tuition free international
online mentoring programme
Unlock the potential of open education in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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HAVE YOU
heard the news
Call for OE4BW HUB YOUTH published
OE4BW announced a Call for Youth (13-24 years old) ready to take part in developing Open education and achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals Are your Youngs missing that one spark that will assure them a spot at the school/university of choice or need a...
OE4BW Call 2022/23 is OPEN
The Calls for developers and mentors for 2022/23 are open. Please find them on the links: Call for Developers 2022/23Call for Mentors 2022/23 The deadline for application is 20 November 2022 (23:59 CET). Please note that this year we are looking for high quality...
OE4BW Eduscope 2022
The University of Nova Gorica and the UNESCO Chair of Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning at the Jožef Stefan Institute successfully organized the Open Education for a Better World Eduscope 2022, which took place from 20 to 22 September 2022. The event was...
HOW
it works
The programme enrolls mentees from all over the world to, under a guidance of internationally recognized mentors, develop and implement OERs based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The process is person focused, led by the mentee and supported by the mentor through dialogue. Mentee owns the process and takes the main responsibilitiy for defining his/her needs for gaining from the mentoring relationship what is intended.
The role of the mentor is to help the mentee find their own solutions. Mentoring relationship is unique, based on the mentee’s individual needs and the mentor’s area of expertise.
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WHO ARE
the initiators
The initiators developed the international online mentoring programme Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW), which has been designed to unlock the potential of Open Education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Initiators also manage the programme, which provides an innovative approach to building Open Educational Resources, connecting developers of educational materials with experts volunteering as mentors.
Tanja Urbančič
Tanja Urbančič is Dean of School of Engineering and Management at the University of Nova Gorica, where she teaches knowledge management, coordinates students’ projects and acts as a supervisor at the undergraduate and graduate level. She also works as a researcher in the Centre for Information Technologies and Applied Mathematics.
Mitja Jermol
Mitja Jermol is holder of UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning and head of the Centre for Knowledge Transfer in Information Technologies (CT3) at Jožef Stefan Institute. He has been doing research and development on artificial intelligence, cybernetics, cognitive systems and e-learning.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH
expertise & guidance
KNOWLEDGE IS SPREAD
all around the world
Hub leaders regionally coordinate developers and mentors in the process of designing their OERs. Hubs are responsible for well-defined organizational tasks, while following the methodology developed by the OE4BW Initiators, and closely cooperating with them.
In 2018/19 cooperation was initiated with Africa and Europe Hub, coordinated by Igor Lesko; Asia Hub, coordinated by Vasudha Kamat and Jayashree Shinde and North and South America Hub, coordinated by Jenni Hayman. We are thankful for their generous cooperation enabling the OE4BW mentoring program to spread around the world.
In 2019/2020, new hub coordinators joined; Tel Amiel and Werner Westermann covering South America, Naomi Wahls covering Europe and Mojca Drevenšek and Jennryn Wetzler covering Hub SDG7 – affordable and clean energy.
In 2020/2021, new hub coordinators joined; Sameer Sahasrabudhe coordinated Hub Teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine, and Marija Komatar, who coordinated Hub Youth.
EDMUNDO TOVAR
Professor, Technical University of Madrid
HUB COMPUTING
Subha Das Mollick
Independent media teacher & filmmaker
HUB ONLINE TEACHING
Gino Fransman
Project Leader, Nelson Mandela University
HUB AFRICA
Tel Amiel
UNESCO Chair in Distance Education
HUB NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Werner Westermann
Library of National Congress of Chile
HUB NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Jenni Hayman
Chair, Teaching and Learning, Cambrian College
HUB EDUCATION/PEDAGOGY
Madhavi Dharankar
SWAYAM COORDINATOR SNDT WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY
HUB TRAIN THE TRAINER
SAMANTHA AHERN
Faculty Learning Technology Lead (Bartlett) at UCL
HUB SUSTAINABILITY/NATURAL SCIENCES
Naomi Wahls
TU Delft
HUB SOCIAL SCIENCE/LEGAL ISSUES
VERONIKA DOLAR
Assistant Professor SUNY Old Westbury
HUB SLOVENIA
ERVIN PFEIFER
Jožef Stefan Institute
HUB YOUTH
GIVE CREDIT WHERE
credit is due
Veronika Dolar
PROJECT MANAGER
Anja Polajnar
SENIOR ASSISTANT TO PROJECT MANAGER
We gratefully acknowledge the help of numerous mentors who volunteered to help OE4BW project developers via online consultations, investing a lot of their time and expertise. Without their generous contribution, the program OE4BW would not be possible!
Contact
Jožef Stefan Institute
Centre for Knowledge Transfer in
Information Technologies (CT3)
Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
email: anja.polajnar@ijs.si
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