nordic oer
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Presentation of OER initiatives in the Nordic region. Estonian Information Technology Foundation for Education conference, Turning point in education, 9-11 April 2014TRANSCRIPT
Nordic cooperation in
open education
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OER Sverige• Increase national
collaboration in OER
• Create effective online methods to support teachers and students
• Raise awareness of OER
• Contribute to the creation of a national structure for tagging, distribution and storage of OER
Webinars
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Attitudes
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NordicOER building a Nordic alliance for
Open Education
• Network and project• Recommendations in
7 languages• Position paper• Cooperation with
other projects• #nordicoer
Barriers to OER• No national policies or
incentives
• Low level of coordination between sectors
• Lack of sharing culture
• Lack of recognition
• Suspicion of openness
• Hard to find resources
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Opportunities for OER
• Culture of openness and transparency
• Catalyst for innovation in education
• New models for education
• New publishing models
• Quality focus, peer review for learning and teaching
• Language and culture
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Nordic OER position paper
Goals and Objectives
Barriers
Actions
Recommendations
• Policy
• Institutions
• Individuals
Finding Nordic OERhttp://nordicoer.org/find-oer/
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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.
Sustainability in OER for less used languages
http://langoer.eun.org/
Project challenges
• Enhance the linguistic and cultural components of OER
• Foster sustainability through OER reuse• Address needs of policy makers AND educators• Raise awareness of risk of exclusion of less used
languages from the OER landscape• Offer training to educators of less used languages,
face-to-face and online• Embrace stakeholders of regional and minority
languages to gain knowledge, develop skills
International workshop on policy for OER and less used languages
28 April, Oslo
OER and challenges and opportunities for less used languages in a global, European, Nordic and national
perspective.
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