Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all open facilitators who shared their stories generously with us for this collection and agreed to make them available as open data; Dr George Veletsianos and Dr Charles Neame for all his efforts to help get this collection published; Marieke Guy from the Open Knowledge Foundation for her interest and commitment to the project, John Griffin, open learning enthusiast, for his editing assistance as well as MMU student Peter McEwan for designing the beautiful cover image and making it available under a creative commons licence for wider resource and repurposing
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Carol Yeager has been a mentor, lecturer, course developer and learning facilitator for more than 20 years with SUNY-Empire State College. During that time she has been primarily involved in innovative online, open and international education. She co-developed SUNY's first initiative in cMOOCs with a course in Creativity and Multicultural Communication. She followed with open online courses in math and metaliteracy. Innovation, communication and critical thinking on a global scale have been Carol’s primary foci. She has travelled extensively for educational purposes as well as for personal and educational advancement of visual and deliberate creativity concepts.
Chrissi Nerantzi is a Principal Lecturer in Academic CPD at Manchester Metropolitan University. She developed and now leads the openly licensed FLEX CPD scheme, teaches on the Postgraduate Certificate and the MA in Academic Practice and supports individuals and teams at MMU to enhance teaching practices. She has participated and initiated open cross-institutional education initiatives using freely available social and mobile media with colleagues from other institutions (examples include @openfdol, @byod4l, @lthechat, #creativeHE) and carries out research in the area of open education with a special focus on collaboration in cross-institutional and cross-cultural settings. Twitter: @chrissinerantzi
Open Education Working Group [http://education.okfn.org/] has been established by Open Knowledge [https://okfn.org/] to bring together people and groups interested in open education. Its goal is to initiate global cross-sector and cross-domain activity that encompasses the various facets of open education. The working group has collaboratively written an Open Education Handbook [http://education.okfn.org/handbook/], a living web document targeting educational practitioners and the education community at large.
