The Nordic Open Education Alliance: Global Collaborations through Open Educational Resources (OER)

The Nordic Open Education Alliance

Open Education in the Nordic Countries and Global Collaboration

Jan M. Pawlowski

OER Sverige, 05.02.2013

Nordic Open Education AllianceHomepage: http://www.nordlet.org/

Position Paper: http://tinyurl.com/nordic-position LinkedIn Community:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Nordic-Open-Education-Nordic-OER-4816636

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Global Information Systemsat the University of Jyväskylä

Focus areasGlobal Information SystemsSupporting globally distributed workgroupsOpen Educational ResourcesReference Modeling

E-LearningSupporting international education settingsCultural adaptationStandardization & Quality Management Mobile & Ambient LearningInnovative tools and solutions

ProjectsOpenDiscoverySpace: OER for SchoolsOpenScout: OER for ManagementTELMAP: Technology ForecastingNORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network for Learning, Education and TrainingCOSMOS: Open Science Resources: Exchange of Scientific ContentASPECT: Open Content and standards for schoolsiCOPER: New standards for educational technologies

Open Educational Resources…

Resources: Learning materials, courses, simulations

Tools: LMS, collaboration tools, …

Practices and experiences!

Open Education on the Move

UNESCO Paris OER Declaration

EU Horizon 2020: Opening Up Education

e. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials. Support institutions, train and motivate teachers and other personnel to produce and share high-quality, accessible educational resources, taking into account local needs and the full diversity of

learners. Promote quality assurance and peer review of OER. Encourage the development of mechanisms for the assessment and certification of learning outcomes achieved through OER.

f. Foster strategic alliances for OER. Take advantage of evolving technology to create opportunities for sharing materials which have been released under an open license in diverse

media and ensure sustainability through new strategic partnerships within and among the education, industry, library, media and telecommunications sectors.

g. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts. Favour the production and use of OER in local languages and diverse cultural contexts to

ensure their relevance and accessibility. Intergovernmental organisations should encourage the sharing of OER across languages and cultures, respecting indigenous knowledge and rights.

How to make an “OER difference” on a global scale?

How to utilize OER for global collaborations across borders and

cultures?

Nordic Openness

Open for Ideas and Innovation

Open Pedagogies and Curricula

Society open for teachers’ appreciation

Education open for anyone (schools, universities, adult education)

Nordic OER

EMU

Materialeplatformen national repository for all Danish learning resources

portal for academic lectures by Danish Public Broadcasting

Duda.dk

inks and information by Skolverket

project OER - Open opportunities for learning involves nine universities

UR access by Utbildningsradion (UR)

Spindeln search engine Libguides iportal for resources on OER

NDLA icooperation between 18 counties

NRK: nrk.no/skole

delogbruk.no Norwegian Web 2.0 initiative

utdanning.no official national education and career portal,.

ovttas.no is a collection of pedagogical articles

EDU.fi by the Finnish National Board of Education

learning resources in Swedish edu.fi/hitta_material/digitala_larresurser

Länkhåven

Instructions for teachers teacher cards

Small Highschools in Finland

LeMill, collaboration with Estonia

Snar.fo public portal for educational content

The Nordic Situation

Perfect ground for Nordic and global collaboration

“Open” Approaches widely used

BUT….– Lack of awareness on all levels– No policies in place– Very few Nordic collaborations

….and unfortunately: a strong lack of global collaboration!

OER

The Nordic Open Education Alliance

To contribute in utilizing OER for educational development in the Nordic countries and to enable and support collaborative actions in these countriesTo contribute to global educational developmentTo support the implementation of the Paris OER Declaration and future EU OER initiatives in the Nordic countriesTo analyze opportunities and barriers for a successful implementation of the Paris Declaration as well as current EU strategies in order to provide guidance for policy makers in governments, institutions and organizationsTo build and exchange knowledge on OER and OEP in the Nordic Region as a basis for good practices, inspiration for policy building and policy implementation

Nordic OE Alliance: Vision 2017The Nordic countries are a leading area regarding global and European OERMinistries and universities acknowledge and support use of OEREducators are aware of OER and how to access and utilize OER“Opening up Education values” are shared by a majority of educatorsAll schools and institutions have the freedom to choose between their own, commercial or open materialsOER creation is rewarded in tenure and evaluation proceduresCommunities have formed on research and teachingAccess to OER exists through communitiesCost of educational materials has decreased New businesses have been formed providing educational servicesAll publicly funded materials are shared and distributed with open licensesQuality mechanisms are available and knownAll schools and educational institutions are involved in long-term educational collaborations, nationally as well as internationallyMaterials and expertise are made available globallyIndividuals and institutions engage in cross-border collaborations

Nordic OE Alliance: Position Paper

http://www.nordlet.org/?q=position

Goals and Objectives

Barriers

Actions

Recommendations– Policy– Institutions– Individuals

How to make it work? How to create long-term, trusted, mutual partnerships?

Towards Nordic-Global Collaborations

Policy Level– Create multi-lateral educational partnerships– Support development of OER in different languages– Enforce collaborative research– Provide Nordic OER access points

Institutions– Commit to OER development: rewards and recognition – Utilize existing partnerships (ERASMUS, e-twinning, …)– Support and encourage collaborative teaching

Individuals– Create awareness– Create, collaborate, innovate!– Try out new ways of mutual collaboration!

OER creation processRe-thinking the way we create OER

Openness and mutual understanding

Building meaning and ownership

Design & Develop

Re-Design

Re-Use

Re-Publish

Imperfect DesignIdea Sharing

Collaborative Development

Collaborative Teaching

ImprovementReputation

Managemnent

Imperfect Design: Conceptual Models

Creating common ideas and common understanding on specific concepts

How to approach and structure the subject

Agreeing on concepts, differences, relations

Imperfect Design: Ideas, e.g. E-Learning with OER

Outcomes– Knowing “open” concepts and legal issues– Utilizing repositories and tools for creating new learning opportunities and collaborative teaching– Critically consider OER vs. commercial content

Lesson Method Remarks

1 Motivation Anchor Youtube-Video Creative Commons,

2 OER Basics Lecture & Discussion Open Source -> Catheral & Bazaar, Open Access, “Open” Classification

3 OER search

Demonstration and Hands-On Exercise

Repository Demonstration http//learn.openscout.net, Search for contents for mathematics on Pythagoras theorem

4 OER tools Case study Use OpenScout tool library to find the best tools for collaborative authoring (google docs, …)

5 Summary Learning Café Reporting experiences – what are pro’s and con’s of OER, what are operational problems

Imperfect Design: Ideas and Sketches

Images: Tore Hoel, http://insulardrafts.tumblr.com/

Imperfect Design: Simple Outlines

Source: http://www.mentormob.com

Imperfect Design: Prototypes

Summary

Nordic Open Education Alliance provides an access point to Nordic Open EducationGrowing initiative to represent Nordic interests and opportunitiesSupport of global collaboration instead of exportPromoting innovation – e.g. idea sharing, trust building, collaboration– Emotional (and collective) ownership– Co-creation in collaborations – Creating long term emotional bindings– OER as a dynamic process in groups of

trusted colleaguesJoin the partnership!

Starting Questions

What have you shared so far? Have you been involved in co-creation processes?

Which kind of artifacts would you share and how to make sense of them?

How to realize sharing processes at an early stage?

What are the needs, interests and opinions in your country?

Contact us…Prof. Dr. Jan M. [email protected]

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Nordic Open Education AllianceHomepage: http://www.nordlet.org/

Position Paper: http://tinyurl.com/nordic-position LinkedIn Community:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Nordic-Open-Education-Nordic-OER-4816636