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

Fri Oct 2 07:47:52 UTC 2015

Dear Paul,

Thank you for your prompt response. It is obvious that good practices 
regarding openness are common no matter the context and field. I 
carefully read both versions of the post (the other one available here: 
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/46159, as kindly shared by 
Tamara) and I was mostly happy to see the approach in action; as you may 
have noticed I am an avid blogger myself (and I see that the same goes 
for you Paul!). I believe that blogs have significantly contributed to 
the openness of information no matter the context (e.g. OER, open 
access, open data etc.), thanks to them giving a virtual space to 
everyone for publishing their news, outcomes and sharing good practices 
and use cases (among others). I think I need to check both blogs more 
frequently...

I also second the wiki options, but for serving rather different 
purposes; we at Agro-Know have extensively used it for announcing and 
documenting events, collaborative work on describing workflows & 
methodologies (e.g. how to run an event) etc. - the means (tools) are 
out there for free and the options are limitless!

Big thanks to everyone for keeping the conversations in this mailing 
list alive; despite the fact that I am not an active contributor, I keep 
reading and enjoying the conversations and of course help spreading the 
word when needed :-)

Best regards,

Vassilis

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On 01/10/2015 18:43, Paul Bacsich wrote:
> 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 <mailto:vprot at aua.gr>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 01, 2015 2:56 PM
> *To:* Open Educational Resources - an online discussion forum 
> <mailto:oer-forum at lists.esn.org.za> ; Tamara Kovacova 
> <mailto:tamara.kovacova at eduin.cz>
> *Cc:* OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK <mailto:OPENEDSIG at jiscmail.ac.uk> ; 
> Educause Openness Constituent Group 
> <mailto:OPENNESS at listserv.educause.edu> ; 
> mailto:open-education at lists.okfn.org ; OER-DISCUSS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
> <mailto:OER-DISCUSS at jiscmail.ac.uk> ; International OER Advocacy 
> <mailto:internationaloeradvocacy at googlegroups.com> ; Open Policy 
> Network <mailto:open-policy-network at googlegroups.com>
> *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
>
>
> /*Vassilis Protonotarios, PhD|* Senior Project Manager /
>
> /*Agro-Know*/
>
> /Email: vprot at agroknow.gr/
>
> /Website:www.agroknow.gr <http://www.agroknow.gr>/
>
> /Tel: +30 210 6897 905/
>
> /Address:17 Grammou Str., Vrilissia GR15235, Greece/
>
> Agro-Know is an extraordinary company that captures, organizes and 
> adds value to the rich information available in agricultural and 
> biodiversity sciences, in order to make it universally accessible, 
> useful and meaningful.
>
> Check out our blog : blog.agro-know.com <http:/blog.agro-know.com>
>
>
>
> 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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