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World OER Congress 20 – 22 June 2012
OER Paris World Congress Summary
Mr. Joshua Mallet, Ministry of education, Ghana
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World OER Congress 20 – 22 June 2012
Two important documents
• Programme• Room XI – World OER Congress• Room XII – Open Seminar and Exhibition
• 2012 World Open Educational Resources Congress• Page 5 – DRAFT 2012 Paris OER Declaration• Comments to be submitted in the BOX by 12
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Summary Day 1Opening Address:Ms Irina BOKOVAMr Qian TANGMr Janis KARKLINSProf Asha KANWAR
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Open Licences – Larry Lessig
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Keynote Address & Country Perspectives
• Keynote: Hon Mr Lee OCRAN, Ghana– OER Africa, KNUST, TESSA, AVU
• Sen the Hon Ms Franca ALEXIS-BERNARDINE, Grenada– Caribbean Knowledge Network, Regional Digital Development
Strategy, Caricom, CXC, CCTI, ICT4TD
• Hon Ms Mariama ALI, Niger– Digital Campus, Website, Tablets for students
• Representative from Madagascar– Innovative use of ICT e.g. IWB; Free access to the Internet, PPP
» Contributions from:• Gabon, Benin, Namibia
» Trinidad & Tobago
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Issues and Challenges• Numbers • 21st Century students and teachers• ICT Infrastructure and connectivity• Responsibility of:
– Fostering awareness and use of OER– Advocacy– ICT and connectivity strategies– Include OER in educational policy and strategies– Promote and adopt open licensing frameworks– Support sustainable development and sharing of OER– Foster strategic alliances and PPP for OER– Address language and cultural contexts– Promote more research in OER– Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER
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Benefits of harnessing OER?
• Increased availability of high quality, relevant materials can contribute to quality teaching and learning
• Adaptation of materials can be a mechanism for collaboration, sharing, constructing roles of educators and students
• Build capacity in production of high quality materials
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Why should OER become a matter of public (open) policy?
The basic argument of open policy is that when public money is used to fund research, development or other educational, academic and information-generating activities, the product of those activities should be freely available to the public that paid for it.
Dr. Cable Green, Creative Commons
Contributions by Canada and Namibia
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World OER Congress 20 – 22 June 2012
Programme Day 2• High level sessions for:– Europe and Latin America– Arab States and Asia/Pacific
• Six Regional OER Policy Forums• Panel Discussion 1: Issues and Challenges for
OER• Panel Discussion 2: Government
representatives on the Paris Declaration on OER