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Presentation of the UNESCO OER Programme to the team members of the UNESCO ICT Radio Project - Wednesday 26 June, 2013. Proposal - to OERize all the training materials of the Project so that they can be adapted, especially translated, by the global community of internet-savvy community radios.

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UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme

ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section

Knowledge Societies Division

Communication and Information (CI) Sector

UNESCO, Paris, France

www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer

www.unesco.org/webworld/fr/oer

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Introduction

Defining open educational resources (OERs) Explaining open licences from Creative Commons Benefits of OERs UNESCO OER Programme 2012 World OER Congress – Paris OER Declaration Hewlett OER Project

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What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

UNESCO defines Open Educational Resources as: Any type of learning materials (especially eLearning

resources and tools) Released under an open intellectual property licence or in

the public domain, allowing free-of-cost and legal – Reuse – Revision– Remixing– Redistribution (4 Rs by David Wiley)

“Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation”, David Wiley

“They are acts of generosity, sharing, and giving.”

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What are examples of OERs?

• Curriculum frameworks and maps

• Course materials, tests, assignments

• Documents

• Books

• Multimedia applications

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Dr. Cable GreenDirector of Global Learning

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Step 1: Choose Conditions

Attribution - BY

ShareAlike - SA

NonCommercial - NC

NoDerivatives - ND

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Step 2: Receive a License

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most free

least free

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175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

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What are the benefits of OERs?

“Benefits and challenges of OER for higher education institutions”, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

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What is the UNESCO OER Programme

1. Paris OER Declaration2. OER Platform 3. OER Policy Guidelines4. OER Community on the WSIS Platform5. OER Research Chairs: Canada, Netherlands,

New Zealand, Brazil

6. Publications7. Partnerships: Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

8. 2012 World OER Conference, Paris, June 20129. Large projects – Hewlett OER Project (2013 – 2014)

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www.wsis-community.org

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UNESCO OER Publications

2013 German translations by UNESCO German National Commission

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The World OER Congress? 20 – 22 June, 2012 UNESCO HQ, Paris

3 Objectives Release the Paris OER Declaration Showcase the world’s best OER Celebrate the 10th anniversary of 2002 UNESCO Forum

6 worldwide regional Forums 400+ representatives from: Governments, civil society, academia

www.unesco.org/oercongress

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10 Articles of the Paris OER Declaration

a) Foster awareness and use of OER

b) Facilitate enabling environments for use of ICT

c) Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER.

d) Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks

e) Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials

f) Foster strategic alliances for OER

g) Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts

h) Encourage research on OER

i) Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER

j) Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds

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Hewlett Project: Implementing the Paris OER Declaration

Abel

Abel, Fenchun (ED)

Zeynep

2013 – 2014$400,000

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‘The Paris OER Declaration Follow-up’ Project

Time Frame: 2013-2014

Funding : William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Target Countries: Indonesia, Kenya, Oman

Bahrain, South Africa

Senegal, Colombia

Azerbaijan, Slovenia

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Additional OER Projects

UNESCO OER Chairs – Journal Project + 2 new Chairs Pacific SIDS OER Project (ISP) – UNESCO Apia Caribbean SIDS OER Project (ISP) – UNESCO Kingston Open Solutions Report (WSIS+10) ICT FOE OER – FEM (Tarja) WorldMap UNESCO POIs (ISP) – Davide UNESCO – OECD collaboration UNESCO – edX, Harvard University Seminars

Advocacy: Slovenia, Austria, Croatia

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CI/KSD Open Solutions

Open Access Open Mapping

– WorldMap UNESCO Points of Interest Open Data

– mPower mobile apps initiative Open Cloud

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Achieving universal information for all

CC BY Jonathas Mello

Română

Català

Italiano

Polski Íslenska

Suomi

Türkçe

Kiswahili

Greek

Sinhala

Bangla

Bahasa

Deutsch

Maltese

മലയാ�ളം�

Nederlands

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Contact

Abel Caine

OER Programme SpecialistICT in Education, Science and Culture SectionKnowledge Societies DivisionCommunication and Information (CI) SectorUNESCO

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1, rue MiollisParis, 75015FranceE-mail: [email protected]: +33 (0)1 45 68 42 37Twitter: abelcaine