This presentation was for a panel discussion on “Challenges for OER in non-English-speaking countries”, organised by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. It organized a special session on OER in non-English-speaking countries as a satellite event of the 2nd OER World Congress.

1. Panel:
“Challenges for OER in non-English-speaking countries”
UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
The 2nd OER World Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council for Open and Distance Education
Member of the Governing Board

2. Open, Transparent,
Accountable and focus
on Good Governance
Support
From
Norway
29 years
UNESCO
Partner
>50 years
SINCE 1938
To be the global facilitator for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age.
ICDE

3. 1.3 Contribute to
successful
development and
utilisation of Open:
• Open Education Resources
• Open Licensing
• Open Access
• Open Learning and
Education
• Open Knowledge
• Open Source
• Open Innovation
• Open Policy
ICDE and open

4. The Knowledge
Triangle and Open
Open
Policy
Open Science –
Open Access
Open innovation
Open education -
OER

5. <HAVING BIAS IN MIND>
What is the
situation for
languages?

6. http://langoer.eun.org/

7. TOP TEN
LANGUAGES
IN THE
INTERNET
Users Growth
in Internet
(2000 - 2017)
English 576.4 %
Chinese 2,262.8 %
Spanish 1,516.1 %
Arabic 6,805.9 %
Portuguese 1,946.4 %
Malay 2,599.7 %
Japanese 151.6 %
Russian 3,272.7 %
French 738.3 %
German 205.1 %
TOP 10
LANGUAGES
877.2 %
Rest of the
Languages
1,207.5 %
WORLD TOTAL 936.0 %

8. What about the development of OER in LUL?
 First an interesting, but not encouraging observation:
the bold initative for Opening up Education, taken by
the EU in 2013, now in 2016 seems to have lost
momentum for OER – in particular when observing the
global development and comparing with North America.
 Second what we observe from the LangOER project, is
that most LUL countries in Europe are lagging when
it comes to OER, in particular when observing holistic
initiatives which in these countries seem to be totally
absent.
 For regional and minority languages, the situation is
even worse.
 Still, for all of these LUL communities – positive
exemptions exist, but the main picture is relatively
speaking worse than in 2014.
Policy Recommendations - Addendum : Enabling Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Europe through OER
http://langoer.eun.org/

9. “Using the innovation adaption
lifecycle as illustration, we will place
the good example from North America
and France in the innovators and
early adopters group – but most LUL
countries in Europe unfortunately are
in the laggards group.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle
Are most countries in Europe, in particular those with LUL as languages,
being side-lined in the one of the most innovative developments in education
in modern times?
http://langoer.eun.org/

10. The first workshop on OER in lesser used languages – April 2014

11. 3 recommendations
12 languages

12. http://langoer.eun.org/
Check the Project!

13. Global open library for
higher education
A feasibility study ?
Joint workshop UNT – ICDE 11 May 2016, Paris
Gard Titlestad, Secretary General
International Council For Open and Distance Education

14. “Based on existing quality OER
repositories, educational needs,
teachers and learners demands,
a possible initiative intends to
spark the uptake of OER and
Open education in Higher
Education and Upper Secondary
Education, and provide the
basis for a future networked
global cooperation between
quality OER repositories. The
main outcome of a possible
initiative will be a dynamic
global network of OER
repositories, well connected to
key stakeholders and the user
community.”
Feasible?
Larry Cooperman, University of California, Irvine
Martin Weller, Open University UK
Gard Titlestad, ICDE, co-ordinator

15. Possible project in the pipeline:
Connecting Quality OER
Repositories

16. Platform for
networking
repositories
and services
Increase
impact from
OER
Innovate in
education and
markets
Monitoring
and
clearinghouse
Improve and
innovate
repositories

17. Prof. Dae Joon Hwang, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, djwang@skku.edu
UNESCO IITE Governing Board Member, Moscow
The 2017 Dujiangyan International Forum: Ensuring the Quality of Education and Lifelong Learning through ICT, 13-14
July2017, Chengdu, China
Technology Transformation
for Pedagogy Innovation
What is our ultimate goal?

18. ”TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE
QUALITY EDUCATION AND LIFELONG
LEARNING FOR ALL”
Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030
THANK YOU!
titlestad@icde.org
www.icde.org

23. On OER – directly: