About me
Gino Fransman is the founder of the Open Education Influencers project (https://openedinfluencers.mandela.ac.za) at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. He is the current Africa Hub Coordinator for the UNESCO Open Education for a Better World [OE4BW] program, plus both a mentor and previous project author in the program. His highly collaborative Open online course is titled Becoming an Open Education Influencer (BOEI). BOEI is a student empowerment and advocacy tool for innovation in education through Open available on the MandelaUni Open Engage LMS. Gino is a member of the OE4BW Advisory Board and the recent 2021 winner of the Open Education Global Emerging Leader Award (https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/emerging-leader/gino-fransman/). He is also an independent member of Open Education Global. In 2023, he has been named as a Key Partner for the Knowledge Equity Network (KEN), “Key Partners represent a range of thought leaders from Higher Education Institutions, influential organisations and include diverse perspectives from across the globe.” See more about KEN here: https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/knowledge-equity-network/index.html. See Gino speaking at the KEN Global Summit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQMQigZX6g8&list=PLUbb9k0_3PcX22D7onKIar-y06G4sZzm4&index=11&t=77s Gino Fransman is the founder of the Open Education Influencers project (https://openedinfluencers.mandela.ac.za) at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. He is the current Africa Hub Coordinator for the UNESCO Open Education for a Better World [OE4BW] program, plus both a mentor and previous project author in the program. His highly collaborative Open online course is titled Becoming an Open Education Influencer (BOEI). BOEI is a student empowerment and advocacy tool for innovation in education through Open available on the MandelaUni Open Engage LMS. Gino is a member of the OE4BW Advisory Board and the recent 2021 winner of the Open Education Global Emerging Leader Award (https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/emerging-leader/gino-fransman/). He is also an independent member of Open Education Global. In 2023, he has been named as a Key Partner for the Knowledge Equity Network (KEN), “Key Partners represent a range of thought leaders from Higher Education Institutions, influential organisations and include diverse perspectives from across the globe.” See more about KEN here: https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/knowledge-equity-network/index.html. See Gino speaking at the KEN Global Summit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQMQigZX6g8&list=PLUbb9k0_3PcX22D7onKIar-y06G4sZzm4&index=11&t=77s
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