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.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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.”

4. What are examples of OERs?
• Curriculum frameworks and maps
• Course materials, tests, assignments
• Documents
• Books
• Multimedia applications

5. Dr. Cable Green
Director of Global Learning

6. Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution - BY
ShareAlike - SA
NonCommercial - NC
NoDerivatives - ND

7. Step 2: Receive a License

8. most free
least free

12. 175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr
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13. Open Educational Resources (OER)

14. What are the benefits of OERs?
“Benefits and challenges of OER for higher education institutions”, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

15. What is the UNESCO OER Programme
1. Paris OER Declaration
2. OER Platform
3. OER Policy Guidelines
4. OER Community on the WSIS Platform
5. OER Research Chairs: Canada, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Brazil
6. Publications
7. Partnerships: Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
8. 2012 World OER Conference, Paris, June 2012
9. Large projects – Hewlett OER Project (2013 – 2014)

16. www.wsis-community.org

17. UNESCO OER Publications
2013 German translations by UNESCO German National Commission

18. 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

22. 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

23. Hewlett Project: Implementing the Paris OER Declaration
Abel
Abel,
Fenchun (ED)
Zeynep
2013 – 2014
$400,000

24. ‘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

25. 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

27. CI/KSD Open Solutions
 Open Access
 Open Mapping
– WorldMap UNESCO Points of Interest
 Open Data
– mPower mobile apps initiative
 Open Cloud

28. Achieving universal information for all
CC BY Jonathas Mello
Română
Català
Italiano
Polski Íslenska
Suomi
Türkçe
Kiswahili
Greek
Sinhala
Bangla
Bahasa
Deutsch
Maltese
മലയാളം
Nederlands

29. Contact
Abel Caine
OER Programme Specialist
ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section
Knowledge Societies Division
Communication and Information (CI) Sector
UNESCO
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
1, rue Miollis
Paris, 75015
France
E-mail: a.caine@unesco.org
Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 42 37
Twitter: abelcaine