UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme

www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer

www.unesco.org/webworld/fr/oer

Open Solutions: OER, OA, FOSS, Open Data

What is the UNESCO OER Programme

1. Normative: Paris OER Declaration2015 General Conference Recommendation

2. OER Platform 3. OER Community on the WSIS Platform4. OER Policy Guidelines for Higher Education5. OER Research Chairs: AU, Canada OU Netherlands,

New Zealand, Brazil6. Publications7. Large projects – Hewlett OER Project8. Partnerships: Commonwealth of Learning (COL)9. Events: 2012 World OER Congress ->

2015 2nd World OER Congress

www.wsis-community.org

The World OER Congress 20 – 22 June UNESCO HQ, Paris

3 Objectives Release the Paris OER Declaration Showcase the world’s best OER Celebrate the 10th anniversary of 2002 UNESCO Forum

6 worldwide regional Forums 400+ Governments, civil society, academia www.unesco.org/oercongress

10 Articles of the Paris OER Declaration

a) Foster awareness and use of OER

b) Facilitate enabling environments for use of ICT

c) Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER.

d) Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks

e) Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials

f) Foster strategic alliances for OER

g) Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts

h) Encourage research on OER

i) Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER

j) Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds

Policy :Support for

national OER policies and

strategies

Teacher Training: capacity building to

develop and use OER and effective use of ICT

in Education.

Awareness : raising on the importance of

OER and related technical

requirements

Hewlett Project: Implementing the Paris OER Declaration

Abel

Abel, Fenchun (ED)

Zeynep

2013 – 2014$400,000

Implementation PlanInception Meeting

National Workshops

Review Meetings

Official Ministerial Approval

• Capacity Building• International

Advocacy

Launch of Policies

Benefitting Member States• Kenya• Oman• Bahrain• IITE: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan• COL: ECOWAS Regional

UNESCO Field Offices• Nairobi• Jakarta• Bangkok• IITE, Moscow

List of UNESCO – COL OER activities

Event Location Organizer DateCOL OER Policy Development Workshop Trinidad & Tobago COL: John 6 – 10 May

COL Southern Africa OER Policy Development Workshop Johannesburg, South Africa COL: Mark 22 – 24 May

COL teacher development workshops Nairobi, Kenya COL: Frances 6 – 7 June

UNESCO Teacher Development Workshop Nairobi, Kenya UNESCO: Zeynep 19 – 20 June

Inception meeting of the OAS-COL project: “Preparing Student for 21st Century Employment in the Eastern Caribbean

Antigua COL: Mark Bullen 18 June

Open Textbooks Forum Antigua COL: Mark BullenUNESCO: Hara, Abel

19 – 20 June

UNESCO OER Teacher Development Workshops Indonesia UNESCO: Zeynep 25 June

OER/ICT in Education policy workshop St. Vincent & the Grenadines COL: Mark BullenUNESCO: Hara, Abel

24 – 25 June

COL ECOWAS OER Policy Development Meeting/workshop

Abuja, Nigeria COL: AbdurrahmanUNESCO: Abel

29 July – 2 August

COL PCF 7 Abuja, Nigeria COLUNESCO: Abel

2 – 6 Dec

Additional OER Projects

UNESCO OER Chairs – Journal Project + 2 new Chairs Pacific SIDS OER Project (ISP) – UNESCO Apia Caribbean SIDS OER Project (ISP) – UNESCO Kingston Open Solutions Report (WSIS+10) ICT FOE OER – FEM (Tarja) WorldMap UNESCO POIs (ISP) – Davide UNESCO – OECD collaboration UNESCO – edX, Harvard University Seminars

Advocacy: Slovenia, Austria, Croatia

UNESCO OER Platform

V2 – developed FOC by Infosys (India) Drupal - FOSS Add products, adaptations, and Compare Ratings, comments, groups (discussions) Multi-lingual Linked to UNESCO OA Portal

UNESCO Products in the OER Platform

OER Guidelines (+2) OA Guidelines Model Curricula for Journalism Education (+2) MIL Curricula (+1) ICT CFT

OER Literacy Project (+6 MS Literacy textbooks) Peace Education Guidelines (+5) IIEP Quality Assurance Guidelines

CLT Sector GHA Curricula SC Sector – Biodiversity Learning Kit