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 1400-1445 (CET)

Marit Bijlsma Mercator Research Centre

About the LangOER project

bull Enhance the linguistic and cultural components of OER

bull Raise awareness of risk of

exclusion of less used languages bull Foster sustainability through OER

reuse bull Address needs of policy makers

and educators

What can you learn and expect

bull Develop awareness of openness in education bull Find already existing open resources bull Refine your searching skills so that you can easily find

whatever type of content you need for whatever purposes

bull Integrate the existing OERs into your own teaching practice

Overview of the Webinars

What will be expected from you

langOER

bull A bit of curiosity bull A pinch of passion for novelty bull Involvement in sharing your thoughts on Open Education Get in the competition for the euro 1000 award Each webinar will ask you a question You can send your answers to mercatorfryske-akademynl Next to that you can be expected to share your thoughts on statements shared with you during the webinars

About the LangOER project

bull Enhance the linguistic and cultural components of OER

bull Raise awareness of risk of

exclusion of less used languages bull Foster sustainability through OER

reuse bull Address needs of policy makers

and educators

What can you learn and expect

bull Develop awareness of openness in education bull Find already existing open resources bull Refine your searching skills so that you can easily find

whatever type of content you need for whatever purposes

bull Integrate the existing OERs into your own teaching practice

Overview of the Webinars

What will be expected from you

langOER

bull A bit of curiosity bull A pinch of passion for novelty bull Involvement in sharing your thoughts on Open Education Get in the competition for the euro 1000 award Each webinar will ask you a question You can send your answers to mercatorfryske-akademynl Next to that you can be expected to share your thoughts on statements shared with you during the webinars

What can you learn and expect

bull Develop awareness of openness in education bull Find already existing open resources bull Refine your searching skills so that you can easily find

whatever type of content you need for whatever purposes

bull Integrate the existing OERs into your own teaching practice

Overview of the Webinars

What will be expected from you

langOER

bull A bit of curiosity bull A pinch of passion for novelty bull Involvement in sharing your thoughts on Open Education Get in the competition for the euro 1000 award Each webinar will ask you a question You can send your answers to mercatorfryske-akademynl Next to that you can be expected to share your thoughts on statements shared with you during the webinars

Overview of the Webinars

What will be expected from you

langOER

bull A bit of curiosity bull A pinch of passion for novelty bull Involvement in sharing your thoughts on Open Education Get in the competition for the euro 1000 award Each webinar will ask you a question You can send your answers to mercatorfryske-akademynl Next to that you can be expected to share your thoughts on statements shared with you during the webinars

What will be expected from you

langOER

bull A bit of curiosity bull A pinch of passion for novelty bull Involvement in sharing your thoughts on Open Education Get in the competition for the euro 1000 award Each webinar will ask you a question You can send your answers to mercatorfryske-akademynl Next to that you can be expected to share your thoughts on statements shared with you during the webinars

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

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 todayrsquos collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to leanerrsquos needs

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)

Opening up Education Open Educational Practice

bull Using publically available sites and portals to share your

teaching materials (syllabi readings lesson scenarios) bull Providing access to open textbooks which are free to download bull Asking students to publish their assignments to Web 20-based

spaces bull Offering free open-access courses either tutored or self-paced bull Delivering open-access university-level courses (MOOCs)

Do you agree Get in the conversation

OERmdashas resources that lend themselves to collaboration knowledge sharing about practices adaptation and reusemdashsupport conversations and practices that may not traditionally be available through professional development (Petrides et al 2010)

langOER

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

What are Open Educational Resources

Meaning a piece of writing or picture published online under a free license can be bull printed out and shared bull published on another website or in print bull altered and modified bull incorporated in part or in whole into another piece of writing bull 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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

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 todayrsquos collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to leanerrsquos needs

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)

Opening up Education Open Educational Practice

bull Using publically available sites and portals to share your

teaching materials (syllabi readings lesson scenarios) bull Providing access to open textbooks which are free to download bull Asking students to publish their assignments to Web 20-based

spaces bull Offering free open-access courses either tutored or self-paced bull Delivering open-access university-level courses (MOOCs)

Do you agree Get in the conversation

OERmdashas resources that lend themselves to collaboration knowledge sharing about practices adaptation and reusemdashsupport conversations and practices that may not traditionally be available through professional development (Petrides et al 2010)

langOER

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

What are Open Educational Resources

Meaning a piece of writing or picture published online under a free license can be bull printed out and shared bull published on another website or in print bull altered and modified bull incorporated in part or in whole into another piece of writing bull 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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

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)

Opening up Education Open Educational Practice

bull Using publically available sites and portals to share your

teaching materials (syllabi readings lesson scenarios) bull Providing access to open textbooks which are free to download bull Asking students to publish their assignments to Web 20-based

spaces bull Offering free open-access courses either tutored or self-paced bull Delivering open-access university-level courses (MOOCs)

Do you agree Get in the conversation

OERmdashas resources that lend themselves to collaboration knowledge sharing about practices adaptation and reusemdashsupport conversations and practices that may not traditionally be available through professional development (Petrides et al 2010)

langOER

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

What are Open Educational Resources

Meaning a piece of writing or picture published online under a free license can be bull printed out and shared bull published on another website or in print bull altered and modified bull incorporated in part or in whole into another piece of writing bull 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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

Opening up Education Open Educational Practice

bull Using publically available sites and portals to share your

teaching materials (syllabi readings lesson scenarios) bull Providing access to open textbooks which are free to download bull Asking students to publish their assignments to Web 20-based

spaces bull Offering free open-access courses either tutored or self-paced bull Delivering open-access university-level courses (MOOCs)

Do you agree Get in the conversation

OERmdashas resources that lend themselves to collaboration knowledge sharing about practices adaptation and reusemdashsupport conversations and practices that may not traditionally be available through professional development (Petrides et al 2010)

langOER

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

What are Open Educational Resources

Meaning a piece of writing or picture published online under a free license can be bull printed out and shared bull published on another website or in print bull altered and modified bull incorporated in part or in whole into another piece of writing bull 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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

Do you agree Get in the conversation

OERmdashas resources that lend themselves to collaboration knowledge sharing about practices adaptation and reusemdashsupport conversations and practices that may not traditionally be available through professional development (Petrides et al 2010)

langOER

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

What are Open Educational Resources

Meaning a piece of writing or picture published online under a free license can be bull printed out and shared bull published on another website or in print bull altered and modified bull incorporated in part or in whole into another piece of writing bull 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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

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

What are Open Educational Resources

Meaning a piece of writing or picture published online under a free license can be bull printed out and shared bull published on another website or in print bull altered and modified bull incorporated in part or in whole into another piece of writing bull 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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

What are Open Educational Resources

Meaning a piece of writing or picture published online under a free license can be bull printed out and shared bull published on another website or in print bull altered and modified bull incorporated in part or in whole into another piece of writing bull 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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

What are Open Educational Resources

bull What exactly does it mean that online educational material is ldquoopenrdquo

(David Wiley 2007)

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

Licensing The Freedoms and Limitations

Creative Commons 2014 -

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

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

How to find free images and other media on the web

NGA Images

Skitter Photo

How to find free images and other media on the web

httpopen4usorgfind-oer

OER Repositories (ROER)

Repositories specifically designed for housing OER Indicators for good quality respositories

Developed to support Open

Practices

collaborate

search

share

reuse

OER Repositories (ROER)

bull Multilingual support bull Social Media Support bull Peer review bull User Evaluation Tools

Multilingual OER repositories

httplemillnet

OER Repositories (ROER)

bull Multilingual support bull Social Media Support bull Peer review bull User Evaluation Tools

Multilingual OER repositories

httplemillnet

Multilingual OER repositories

httplemillnet

Multilingual OER repositories

httploroopenacuk

Multilingual OER repositories

Learning Resource Exchange httplreforschoolseunorg

Question 1 For the euro 1000 award competition

Post your findings to a virtual Padlet wall here httpnlpadletcomm_a_bijlsmaa2i5yk9lkysc- it will open in a new window

Find at least two different pieces of CC-licensed content

Want to know more

Twitter LangOER Slideshare LangOER Mendeley LangOER OER and languages

[BY] Attribution Permits all uses of the original work as long as it is attributed to the original author

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein