[Open-education] [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show usage of OER

Thu Oct 1 13:55:13 UTC 2015

Hi Tamara,

Thank you for sharing your story; it quickly drew my attention and I was 
glad to make it to the end - it is a great, detailed example of how OER 
can be applied in specific contexts.

As regards the collection space for such OER success stories, I have to 
admit that I am sorry to see them restricted in a mailing list and not 
publicly available; based on my previous experience, a multi-author blog 
would be ideal for this purpose: The author would describe his/her story 
as a blog post (even with basic formatting) and the follow ups (i.e. the 
responses to this email) would be the comments of the blog post.

I am sure that a blog could be easily set up in any of the OER advocacy 
websites - it is free, requires minimum maintenance and administration 
and lets people publicly share their stories (posts) and comments. Most 
important? Posts live forever out there, publicly available to anyone 
(unless the server goes down); in contrast, such emails in this list are 
a well-kept secret for the few who know how to register to it, without 
any mean to point external stakeholders to such lovely emails (like 
yours) apart from forwarding the email itself.

That's my two cents in this conversation; I hope that you'll consider my 
proposal.

Best regards,

Vassilis

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On 23/09/2015 15:58, Tamara Kovacova wrote:
>> Hi Open Education and OER community,
>>
>> encouraged by Nicole Allen, let me share our story with you as well :-).
>>
>> I would like just share with you one of possible nice practice how to 
>> show usability of OER (because Alek Tarkowski motivated us to do so 
>> :-) which we are just experiencing..
>>
>> As reaction on world migration situation we as EDUin (eduin.cz 
>> <http://eduin.cz/>) motivated couple of weeks ago czech organization 
>> of civic educaton teachers (obcankari.cz <http://obcankari.cz/> ) to 
>> create handy worksheets for teachers of K12 about migration with CC 
>> licence (in czech because we are targeting czech teachers audience at 
>> the moment).
>>
>> This worksheet (6 - 11 years)  are available here: 
>> http://www.obcankari.cz/edukacni-material-pracovni-list-kdo-proc-utika
>>
>> and here (12 - 16 years)): 
>> http://www.obcankari.cz/edukacni-material-pracovni-list-migrant-azyl-azylant
>>
>> We think that this activity can show that OER can for example:
>> 1) react on new situation -  in terms of new content - very quickly 
>> (which standard textbooks can not)
>> 2) react on new situation in terms of quick spreading of the material 
>> when it is needed (standard books are slower)
>> 3) can join different school subjects together (based on modern 
>>  phenomenon based learning strategy) - different subjects as civic 
>> education, history, literature are taught mostly separatelly today 
>> and as well the most of the textbooks keep school subjects 
>> separatelly as well. OER can serve better for effective phenomenon 
>> based learning, e.g.  can easily join school subjects together.
>>
>> And we as EDUin made a promo mix  (even with press release seen as 
>> well here 
>> http://www.eduin.cz/tiskove-zpravy/tiskova-zprava-jak-ucit-o-uprchlicich/ ) 
>> of this OER worksheets among teachers, parents , experts, 
>> journalists. Yesterday we got call from Czech Television :-).
>>
>> So .. as far as Alek all the time asks for sharing some nice OER 
>> stories, so I would like to share this with you :-).
>>
>> btw - is there some place where nice OER/ Open education stories are 
>> collected? We would like to know about more of those stories, which 
>> can help us to do better advocacy for open education and OER :-).
>>
>> Enjoy autumn :-),
>>
>> Tamara
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