We are glad to see you here in OEG Connect as a participant in the OEGlobal 2025 Tour.
Much is planned for the online live sessions over three days covering all the continents (hmm, we may have neglected Antarctica?). Keep this checklist as a reference for things to consider doing your tour in addition to the daily program of live sessions.
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Since live event schedules are very filled we provide this open space as one for sharing and connecting before, during, and after the sessions. We are setting up activities that are open to both contributing and discussing. This checklist is meant as a starting guide and only as options for what you might choose to do- you are in charge of your own tour!
Your OEGlobal Tour Checklist
There are many ways to participate in and contribute to this community space. Here is a list to get you started.
Getting Ready for the Tour
Login or sign up to join OEG Connect All content here is public to view, but to participate and add to discussions, you need to login to an account. For the signup form please make sure your connection to open education is reflected in either an organizational email address, an entered affiliation, and/or the motivation to be here.
Say Hello! In this topic, we say hello to the world, and you can practice the reply feature with your own greeting.
Personalize your account. Your initial profile is based just on the information entered in the account sign up form. Follow this link to edit your preferences including a display name and optional avatar/photo. Add more information when you edit your profile, including a bio, web links, social media contacts. Choose as much or as little information as you prefer.
Add Yourself to the Participant Directory The Global Tour Participants Group offers a way to find colleagues. Anyone logged in to OEG Connect can instantly add themselves.
Know the Regions’ Discussion Spaces We have organized the OEGlobal Tour to offer general discussions in the main space, but we ask that you engage and share specifically in the sub spaces that you see there listed by each of the three days.
Tour Activities
Pin the Map Share Where you Are Touring From in our global map in padlet where you can add a pin that represents your place in the world. And/Or you can share your location in a reply.
Share Your Open Education Work as a Digital Postcard. Use our Remixable digital postcard to create a brief representation of your own open education project or program, as a means to interest the world to visit. Or just share an image that shows the world what open education looks like where you live. On the card, you can add an image, a short caption, and the place in the world it comes from.
Then share your postcard as a reply to the calls for postcards for the regions we tour each day (you can include much more information in a reply)
- Share Your Digital Postcard (and add more information) for Day 1 Middle East, Asia, Oceania
- Share Your Digital Postcard (and add more information) for Day 2 Africa and Europe
- Share Your Digital Postcard (and add more information) for Day 3 Latin America and North America
Add a Spotlight Moment Whether you are doing a lightning talk or not, we invite everyone to create their own sharable story with a post topic to the spaces for the three regions. Perhaps start with creating a digital postcard to include in your post, but since cannot say much on a postcard, in a community post you can add much more detail such as links, videos, images. Just start in the region where you wish to place your spotlight, and look for the New Topic button in the top right (you must be logged in as an OEG Connect user, if you do not see the button, contact @OEGconnect for help). Add a Spotlight moment for:
Share What You Discover as a Field Note. As you are experiencing the OEGlobal Tour, if you find or see something interesting, share it as a Remixable Open Education Field Note that includes an image, caption, and the place in the world it comes from.
Share Knowledge Landmarks. Add your own open education resources, publications, presentations, and research, all specific to the three world regions of the tour. Share the basic information through our Landmarks form and add more detail in the discussion replies.
Travel Video Challenge (link coming soon) Can you describe what Open Education Resources or Open Education Practices look like in your part of the world? We are casting a call for 2 minute videos that can convey this.
Open as In Local Food. Every place you are in the world has local food it is known for. Share a photo or a recipe for foods well known or even specific to where you live.
More Activities!
If you want to create your own topic or question to put out to tour participants, just go to the main tour space, and start a new topic. We will add them here.
Note
To keep this post simple, this topic is not open to replies, but explore the links below to find all the other places you can participate in discussions
OEGlobal Tour 2025 Navigation
General Calendar plus links to daily events
Main Space virtual lobby for the Tour
Welcome Greeting and Meeting
Tour Information How to Participate, What to See and Do
Day 1 Middle East, Asia, & Oceania
Day 2 Africa and Europe
Day 3 Latin America and North America
OE Award Winners Ceremony
