Open educational resources in Estonia

Hans Põldoja

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What are open educational resources?

Open access(Schaffert & Geser 2008)

Open license

Open format

Open source

... because we should not reinvent the wheel

Part I: Flying low

http://lemill.net

What is LeMill?

• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources

• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE

• Learning Mill

Designed for teachers

• Scenarios

• Design sessions

• User stories

• Prototypes

Design session results

• Teachers are looking for something else than raw text material

• Learning resources can be divided to content, activities and tools

Learning resources

Web page

Presentation

PILOTExercise

School project

Lesson plan

Simple licensing scheme

• All resources created in LeMill are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license

• Media pieces can be also under:

- Creative Commons Attribution license

- GNU Free Documentation License

- Public Domain

• References to external content under any license

Reusing open content

4 200 000media files

12 500 000BY

8 400 000BY-SAphotos

9000content modules

Embedding copyrighted content

More than content

• Methods

• Tools

• Collections

• Teaching and learning stories

LeMill as a social software

• Linking people by location, skills and interests

• Groups for collaborative authoring

• Group forums

Members

0

1500

3000

4500

6000

Jul 2006 Jan 2007 Jul 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Jan 2009

27 65242

465666

867

1698

2337

27962959

4708

5265

4 5 18 89 105 111273 343 359 364 374 414

Estonia Total

Members by specified country

20%

5%

5%

5%

11%18%

36%

Estonia Georgia Hungary Finland Czech Republic Lithuania Other

Part II: Flying high

http://www.wikiversity.org

Part III: OER ecosystem

Learning content

Student blogs

Course wiki and bloglink and tag

link and tag link

link

RSS

link

Part IV: problems

License incompatibility

Copyright law and work contracts

Institutional stagnation

Collaboration culture among teachers

References

• Schaffert, S., Geser, G. (2008, February 29). Open Educational Resources and Practices. eLearning Papers, 7. Retrieved April 3, 2009, from http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media14907.pdf

Photos

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleaf/2536358399/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben-zvan-photography/468487548/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/312407445/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcogomes/3024603255/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchy/98932572/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/vrogy/514733529/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamedmasoumi/676172584/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2328444918/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/wricontest/399105920/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/frozenchipmunk/197591546/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbanck/1440239463/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/whiskeytango/526279469/

Thank You!

• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee

• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja/