OEGlobal Conference, Brisbane November 2024

This event was an opportunity for me to further extend understanding and purpose behind the Global Collaborator Mindset, with a focus on the attribute or ‘Openness’. As I wrote in a paper from two years ago, “Central to the Openness mindset is believing in the inherent value of transparency, openly contributing ideas, and collaboratively co-creating new knowledge together”.

In this presentation I discuss the ‘Five Dimensions of Openness’, as foundation for global collaboration, namely:

1. Open believing
2. Open sharing
3. Open contributing
4. Open inclusive co-learning
5. Open cultural empathy

I also introduce a self-assessment framework encouraging individuals to determine a personal openness inventory with dimensions:

• Digital openness
• Pedagogical openness
• Cultural openness
• Collaborative openness

Aligning with the conference theme of ‘Open is everyone’s business’, I concluded with:

“Cultivating an open participatory mindset oriented around collaboration and flat, inclusive co-learning is everyone’s business. It is essential for transforming teaching into an open educational practice fostering global connectedness”

Reference

Lindsay, J. & Redmond, P. (2022). Online collaborative learning starts with the global collaborator mindset. Educational Studies, 50(6), 1466–1484. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2022.2133957