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

Thu Oct 1 15:43:56 UTC 2015

Dear Vassilis

I entirely agree with you that these wonderful OER success stories should not be restricted to mailing lists. That is why the Open Education Working Group, a group hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation, worked over the last couple of weeks with Tamara and her colleagues to place an entry on the Open Education Working Group blog, which you can find at http://education.okfn.org/european-migrant-crisis-czech-teachers-create-and-share-open-resources/.  Others encouraged Tamara to send her story to the OER World Map project which is building a database of, among other things, OER stories - https://oerworldmap.org/

There has also been a long tradition of collaborative building of wikis in this area and the more general open education area including POERUP, Creative Commons and WikiEducator (in particular hosting eMundus).

The main thing is surely to collect and reuse the stories and raise the level of informal collaboration. 

Paul Bacsich
Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/ 
Senior Consultant, SeroHE
POERUP wiki - http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page

From: Vassilis Protonotarios 
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 2:56 PM
To: Open Educational Resources - an online discussion forum ; Tamara Kovacova 
Cc: OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK ; Educause Openness Constituent Group ; mailto:open-education at lists.okfn.org ; OER-DISCUSS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK ; International OER Advocacy ; Open Policy Network 
Subject: Re: [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show usage of OER

Hi Tamara,

Thank you for sharing your story (and to Nicole for initiating the process!); 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) motivated couple of weeks ago czech organization of civic educaton teachers (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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