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Global to Local: Reimagining OER Localisation in Higher Education
Thu March 5, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm GMT
This Open Education Week online panel from the Commonwealth of Learning presents fresh insights into Open Educational Resource (OER) localisation across the Commonwealth.
Facilitated by Professor Lynne Bowker (Laval University) and Dr Jako Olivier (Commonwealth of Learning), the session is linked to their forthcoming edited volume, Localisation of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education. Speakers from Canada, India and South Africa will share brief presentations on new research, exploring themes such as generative AI, multilingual and Indigenous knowledge integration, student-centred localisation, and policy-driven approaches to adapting OER for local contexts.
Programme
1) Introduction – Jako Olivier & Lynne Bowker (5 minutes)
2) Short presentations (40 minutes)
– Reimagining OER Localisation through Generative AI: A Conceptual Framework for Higher Education (Adit Gupta, Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Mool Raj & Aakriti Singh)
– Ubuntu and Open Knowledge: A Theoretical Lens on Indigenous Knowledge Integration in Multilingual OERs (Napjadi Letsoalo)
– Science is tough but so are you: localising resources and centering student experiences (Michelle Willmers, Dale Taylor, Bianca Masuku, Glenda Cox & Mohammed Kajee)
– From Global Openness to Local Flexibility: The Discursive Localization of OER in Ontario’s Virtual Learning Strategy (Mara Bordignon)
3) Questions and answers (13 minutes)
4) Closing remarks – Jako Olivier & Lynne Bowker (2 minutes)
