Educational Policies and

OER in Brazil

Anna Christina Nascimento

Brazilian Ministry of Education

OCWR GLOBAL 2010

Focus on three main objectives:

Offer literacy on digital technologies to students and teachers

Transform classrooms into more dynamic environments.

Help students build autonomy and authoring skills

ICTs and Brazilian schools

Systemic view of ICT tooling of schools, as expressed in the Educational Development Plan

Particular emphasis is placed in partnerships between the Ministry of Education and State and Local Educational

authorities.

Implementation ICT school capacities at three different levels: infrastructure,teacher training, and digital content offering.

The National Program for informatics in Education – Proinfo

Equipping schoolsEquipping schools

• 42.688 schools equipped with computer labs and broad band access

• 24.836.204 students with access

• By the end of 2010 29.562.664 students connected = 90% of K-12

Projector : mobile solution

Processor, keyboard, mouse, USB port, wireless access and DVD player;

UCA – One computer per child: experimental stage

Equipping schoolsEquipping schools

Year 2007 2008 2009 2010

Proinfo (180 h course) --  118.000 280.000 250.000

Media in Education (360 advanced course)

15.000 43.758 52.184 53.600

Total of teachers in training 15.000 161.758 332.184 303.600

Teacher trainingTeacher training

Empowering teachers

•Encourage teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization

•Increase teacher use of digital resources

•Enrich classroom activities

•Making the profession more attractive

1. Tv Escola (school TV) – daily programs in public and cable TV, distribution

in DVD and access via Teacher´s Portal.

2. Repository: The whole digital educational resources produced or sponsored by MEC,

and all the other ones identified in Brazil and other countries, intended for

the sharing and reusing. Heavy investment on the production of multimedia educational material

Implemented in an open source platform - DSPACE More than 9.000 resources freely available to access and

download.

Content production and access

RepositoryRepository

The repository was created to offer open access to quality educational resourcesfor all educational levels

http://objetoseducacionais.mec.gov.br

Content production and access

Repository Development

• Platform D-Space, • Dublin Core metadata standard• Teams from diferent universities work identifiyng digital multimedia material of good quality in Brazil and other countries

- Authors are contacted and asked about license for free access and reuse of their materials

Content production and access

Copyrights

• Prior the publishing in the repository, authors should indicate what kind of license they selected for the resources access and use

• Although we adopted the creative commons licence, we accept the authors especific conditions

Quality

An evaluation committee evaluates the resources submitted to the repository to ensure quality of the content.

Portal do professor(Teacher´s Portal)

Created to offer the teacher easy acces to diverse educational resources,

To enrich knowledge repertory and teaching practice

Portaldoprofessor.mec.gov.br

Portal do Professor :

Focus on K-12 teachers

Offer tools for developing and sharing

lesson plans;

Access to open educational resources from

repository

A referatory to digital educational resources

Content production and access

Portal do ProfessorPortal do Professor

• Individuals and community can share experiences for free

• Help the access and reuse of educational resources

• Encourage teacher collaboration and help the process for media literacy

Portal do professor

Access to lesson plans created by teachers;

Lesson plans integrate variety of media resources

Portal do professor

Tool that facilitates the colaborative work

Portal do professor

Teachers interaction: possibility to post comments and give feedback

Portal do professor

Forums to promote debates and ideas exchange

Portal do professor

Portal do professor

Encouraging publication:

Links to inumerous schools projects

Portal do professor

Portal do professor

Acess to scientific research, digital libraries, courses, and diverse information of interest to teachers

Portal do professor

Interoperability:

• Teacher´s Portal

• LMS

• Student´s Portal

Ministry of Education Portals

Anna Christina Aun de Azevedo Nascimento

Portal do Professor

http://portaldoprofessor.mec.gov.br

Brazilian Ministry of Education

(55)(61) 2022-9557

annanacimento@mec.gov.br

Thanks!