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

Tim.Coughlan Tim.Coughlan at open.ac.uk
Fri Sep 25 09:56:41 UTC 2015 

Dear all,

Just to follow up on the theme of Tamara's post, open approaches to learning could play a huge role is in supporting refugees and migrants themselves to continue their education, whether in camps, or traveling into new countries. We have a new PhD student starting soon, who is focused on how to better support learning for Syrian children in refugee camps, and our initial discussions have already raised a number of issues, from making existing resources more suited to use in camp contexts which lack enough trained teachers, to translation of resources, to approaches to open learning that are designed for offline use, limited availability of computers, and transient populations.

Another project you may find of interest is MASELTOV: http://www.open.ac.uk/iet/main/research-innovation/research-projects/maseltov which is designing mobile systems to assist migrants in settling into new places.

Keep up the good work!

Tim.

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Dr Tim Coughlan
Lecturer, Institute of Educational Technology
The Open University
Email: tim.coughlan at open.ac.uk
Web: http://t1mc.wordpress.com

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   1. Open Education Croatia (Centar za lokalni inicijativi Bitola)
   2. Re: [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show usage of OER
      (Alek Tarkowski)
   3. Re: [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show usage of OER -
      but in an NC context? (Paul Bacsich Sero)


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Dear all,

We have excellent new post from Ms. Sandra Kucina Softic on Open Education
in Croatia: http://education.okfn.org/open-education-croatia/

Check Open Education Around the World <http://education.okfn.org/world/>
and make sure your country isn't missing and email me if you would like to
share post about Open Education in your country.

Thank you,
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:41:28 +0200
From: Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl>
To: OER Forum <oer-forum at lists.esn.org.za>, Tamara Kovacova
        <tamara.kovacova at eduin.cz>, "OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK"
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Hi Tamara,

I like this story a lot :)
The argument about ?swiftness? of OER as compared to traditional production of resources is very good and not raised that often.

I agree with Daniel that it would be good to make it available under a free license, if you?re using this as an exemplary story - it?s good to set a strong precedent.

With regard to promoting such news, the CC blog is a very good place to do that (it has a lot of readers). Another one is the OKI OER working group webpage (http://education.okfn.org). Finally, Jan Neumann and the OER World Map is looking for such stories.

Best,

Alek

> On 23 Sep 2015, at 14:58, Tamara Kovacova <tamara.kovacova at eduin.cz> 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 <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 <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/ <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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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:11:10 +0100
From: "Paul Bacsich Sero" <paul.bacsich at sero.co.uk>
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Cc: Tamara Kovacova <tamara.kovacova at eduin.cz>, Daniel Mietchen
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Subject: Re: [Open-education] [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show
        usage   of OER - but in an NC context?
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Daniel Mietchen raises a very challenging issue about NC.

Would anyone care to lead with a blog posting on this? I do feel it is much more appropriate for a blog laying out the pros and cons rather than an exchange of emails on a list.

I notice that OER Africa has written on this in the past ? e.g. at http://www.oerafrica.org/copyright-and-licensing-toolkit/what-does-non-commercial-mean

My initial thought is that views on this are affected by 1) how education is ?delivered? in the countries of relevance to those discussing the topic and 2) the extent to which state or para-statal entities in such countries fund the private sector to ?do good work? within the constraints of ?non profit? participation ? as for example the EU does extensively via LLP and Framework in the past and now Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020.

Paul Bacsich
Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/
Senior Consultant, SeroHE



From: Daniel Mietchen
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 1:45 AM
To: Open Educational Resources - an online discussion forum
Subject: Re: [OER] Sharing of nice practice how show usage of OER

Dear Tamara,

congratulations on this initiative and thanks for sharing the story with us.
If others would like to build on your initiative, however, they are hampered by the license you chose.
Can you expand a bit as to whether and why the restrictions are necessary, in particular the -NC one?

Thanks,

Daniel


On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Tamara Kovacova <tamara.kovacova at eduin.cz> 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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