Building Mongolia’s Open Network for Education

Z. Batbold :: DREAMIT.mnD. Porter :: BCcampus.ca

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*Batbold Zagdragchaa, DREAMIT.mn

*Project leader in Mongolia

*David Porter – BCcampus.ca

*Educational consultant to IDRC.ca and DREAMIT.mn

*Mongolia is a rapidly developing economy

*With a small population (2.9M) divided almost equally between the Ulaanbaatar (1.4M) and rural centres across the vast countryside

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*Open government

*Open access research

*Open educational resources

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*National seminars on OER sponsored by DREAM IT and IDRC Canada were held in Ulaanbaatar in October 2010 and September 2011

*Making government information accessible

*Inviting participation through web-based access

*The project found that one-way information flow was insufficient to promote citizen engagement

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*Publishing research openly using CC licenses

CC-BY-SA

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CC-BY-SA

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*Using OER with pre-school teachers and parents

http://www.davlagaa.mn CC-BY-NC-SA

Critical infrastructure for an open society

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*Focus-area 1: Identify partners for a Creative Commons (CC) Mongolia

*Participated in UNESCO IITE and MUST workshop in April 2012

*Hosted organizational meeting with potential partners in July 2012

* Identified and named partners for all CC Mongolia Affiliate activities by September 2012

*Focus-area 2: Establish CC Mongolia Affiliate organizational structure

*Design and develop CC Mongolia Affiliate web site

*Create CC Mongolia video

*Sign MoU with Creative Commons by November 2012

*Expected date of completion: December 2012

Building an Open Network for Education

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*Mongolia in the next 20 years?

Minegolia Mindgolia

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*Promoting public awareness of new demands and a new vision for education

*Learning for knowledge-based economy

*Learning Nation

*Creating partnerships for a new model for education in the 21st century

*Initiating new policies for 21st century education support systems

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*World is changing

*Becoming more flat and open

*Internet and global knowledge

*Mongolian schools and universities have not adapted to the changing world

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Innovation Through Technology

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*First Year Goals:

*Establishing the Creative Commons Mongolia Affiliate

*Cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science, Academy of Science, Universities

*Developing public awareness of OER

*ONE.MN Portal: OER Directory (M)

*Workshops and media coverage

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*Six projects, goals for 2013:

*Mongolpedia: To develop and add contents on http://mn.wikipedia.org

*ONE Academy: Localize 200 video lessons of Khan Academy

*ONE Language: To create Mongolian online dictionary – 2000 words

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*ONE Repository: Digitize 200 historical documents

*ONE Thesis: All university students will be required to upload their thesis and dissertations

*ONE Library: National Open Access Library – 500 books

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Learning for a knowledge-based economy

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