Presentation by Marit Bijlsma, Mercator Research Centre on Open Educational Resources

1. This project was financed with the support of the European Commission. This publication is the sole responsibility of the author and
the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
An Introduction to Open Educational Resources
25 March 2015, 14:00-14:45 (CET)
Marit Bijlsma, Mercator Research Centre

2. About the LangOER project
• Enhance the linguistic and cultural
components of OER
• Raise awareness of risk of
exclusion of less used languages
• Foster sustainability through OER
reuse
• Address needs of policy makers
and educators:

3. What can you learn and expect?
• Develop awareness of openness in education;
• Find already existing open resources;
• Refine your searching skills so that you can easily find
whatever type of content you need for whatever
purposes;
• Integrate the existing OERs into your own teaching
practice.

4. Overview of the Webinars

5. What will be expected from you?
#langOER
• A bit of curiosity
• A pinch of passion for novelty
• Involvement in sharing your thoughts on Open Education
Get in the competition for the € 1.000 award!
Each webinar will ask you a question: You can send your
answers to: mercator@fryske-akademy.nl
Next to that you can be expected to share your thoughts on
statements shared with you during the webinars.

6. This project was financed with the support of the European Commission. This publication is the sole responsibility of the author and
the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Webinar I
An introduction to OER for less used languages

7. Opening up Education
Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a
framework of open sharing to improve educational access and
effectiveness worldwide.
Open Education combines the tradition of knowledge sharing and creation
with the 21st century technology to create a vast pool of openly shared
educational resources while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to
develop educational approaches that are more responsive to leaner’s
needs

8. Opening up Education
Open Educational Practices (OEP)
May range from simple everyday practices of individual teachers to mass initiatives.
What are we talking About?
Open education
Online education
Open Educational resources
Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCS)
Open Courseware (OCW) Hester
Jelgerhuis
(SURF),

9. Opening up Education: Open Educational Practice
• Using publically available sites and portals to share your
teaching materials (syllabi, readings, lesson scenarios);
• Providing access to open textbooks which are free to download;
• Asking students to publish their assignments to Web 2.0-based
spaces;
• Offering free, open-access courses, either tutored or self-paced;
• Delivering open-access university-level courses (MOOCs).

10. Do you agree? Get in the conversation!
OER—as resources that lend themselves to collaboration,
knowledge sharing about practices, adaptation and reuse—
support conversations and practices that may not traditionally be
available through professional development.
(Petrides et al, 2010)
# langOER

11. What are Open Educational Resources?
Definition of OER:
- teaching, learning and research material
- Released in the public domain OR
released under an open license (certain
conditions)
- no-cost access
- possible to adapt and redistribute with no
or limited restrictions
UNESCO, 2012, Paris OER Declaration

12. What are Open Educational Resources?
Meaning: a piece of writing or picture published online under a free
license can be:
• printed out and shared;
• published on another website or in print;
• altered and modified;
• incorporated, in part or in whole, into another piece of writing;
• used as the basis for another piece of work in another medium -
such as an audio recording, a video clip or a collage of media.

13. What are Open Educational Resources?
• What exactly does it mean that online educational material is
“open”?
(David Wiley, 2007)

14. Licensing: The Freedoms and Limitations
Creative Commons, 2014 -

15. Licensing: The Freedoms and Limitations
Creative
Commons, 2014
-

16. How to find free images and other media on the web?
Strategy 1: Use a dedicated
search engine which filters the
web content for licensed
materials. The best example
here is a Creative Commons
search engine
Strategy 2: Use advanced search
preferences in the Google (or
other) search engine.
Strategy 3: Use one of the dedicated
repositories of images or other
media.

17. How to find free images and other media on the web?
NGA Images
Skitter Photo

18. How to find free images and other media on the web?
http://open4us.org/find-oer/

19. OER Repositories (ROER)
Repositories specifically designed for housing OER
Indicators for good quality respositories:
Developed to
support Open
Practices
collaborate
search
share
reuse

20. OER Repositories (ROER)
• Multilingual support
• Social Media Support
• Peer review
• User Evaluation Tools

21. Multilingual OER repositories
http://lemill.net/

22. Multilingual OER repositories
http://loro.open.ac.uk/

23. Multilingual OER repositories
Learning Resource Exchange http://lreforschools.eun.org

24. Question 1: For the € 1.000 award competition
Post your findings to a virtual Padlet wall here:
http://nl.padlet.com/m_a_bijlsma/a2i5yk9lkysc- it will open
in a new window.
Find at least two different pieces of CC-
licensed content

25. Want to know more?
Twitter #LangOER Slideshare LangOER Mendeley LangOER: OER and languages
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