Dr Chrissi Nerantzi (PFHEA, NTF, CATE) is a Professor in Creative and Open Education in the School of Education, a Senior Lead of the Knowledge Equity Network and the Academic Lead for Discover and Explore at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Her innovative contributions, such as cross-boundary learning and open professional development, foster collaborative, creative and inclusive education. A National Teaching Fellow, multi-award-winning educator, and prolific researcher, Chrissi integrates creativity, playfulness, and openness to inspire transformative learning experiences across disciplines and communities. She is an internationally recognised leader in creative and open education, with career spanning roles as a teacher, programmer, translator, academic developer, and education innovator in Greece, Germany, and the UK. Chrissi is a GO-GN alumna, the co-founder of the open cross-institutional course Flexible, Distance and Online Learning (FDOL) together with Lars Uhlin from Sweden; founder of the international open #creativeHE community and has co-created many OER and initiated a range of further open professional development courses, networks and communities that have been sustained over the years. Recently the open crowdsourced genAI collection, a project she leads, won the Open Education Award for Excellence in the category of Open Curation/Repository by OEGlobal. Her current open living book project “Learning with AI” creates opportunities for students as editors to curate examples by students on how they are using AI in their learning. The call is open. Please share and contribute if you are an undergraduate, postgraduate, or doctoral student and share with others who may be interested.

Lars Uhlin has a background in Nursing and has long experience of teaching and development in Health Care Education and Problem-based learning (PBL). For the last 25+ years he has worked with educational development in different settings both on the national and international arena. Some of Lars’ main interest areas has been professional development and educational design within a framework of problem-based-, interprofessional- and open networked learning. He is one of the co-founders to the parent course of ONL (Flexible, Distance and Online Learning (FDOL)) and has been part of organising and developing ONL since the start. He is now retired from his position as Educational Developer at Linköping university but has kept being engaged in the Swedish/Nordic PBL network and having a “backseat” role in ONL.