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UNESCO OER Platform ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section Information Society Division Communication and Information (CI) Sector www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer www.unesco.org/webworld/fr/oer

What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

UNESCO defines Open Educational Resources (OERs) as:  Learning especially eLearning resources and tools  in open document format  and released under an intellectual property licence, or in the public domain allowing free use and re-use

2002 UNESCO OpenCourseware Forum

What is the UNESCO OER Platform?

The UNESCO OER Platform seeks to:  radically “enhance” UNESCO’s Clearing House function by  offering “certain” UNESCO publications as OER products and  allowing “stakeholders” to freely copy, adapt, and share their resources.

Who are the UNESCO Stakeholders?

 Decision-makers and Policy-makers at Ministry or institutional-level looking for model policies, guides, or best-practices;  Teachers looking for courses, syllabi, and teaching materials and  Learners also looking for additional courses to study

Functionalities of the OER Platform  Find and compare: stakeholders can freely use the UNESCO base      

product to find and compare content Build and share: stakeholders can freely copy, build and share their unique adaptations Translations: significantly higher than the 6 languages from UNESCO Localization: incorporating the more relevant and superior quality and quantity of the national or regional literature base on the subject area; Innovation: the creation of new, customized versions, e.g. Guide on Internet Access for Disabled Journalists based on the original UNESCO “The Net for Journalists” Offline editing: critically important for countries with poor internet Mobile phone access: taking advantage of 5 billion access points

An ideal CI OER Product  “UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education”  Generic, adaptable, fully-prescriptive Curricula: – Course descriptions – Pedagogical approaches – Mode, weekly class agenda, number of teaching hours – Recommended text – Grading and assessment protocols  Available in 6 official languages  Adapted by 50+ institutions in 45 countries with backlog

 The OER Platform allows a new journalism school to: – easily find courses, – compare how other schools have adapted them, and – freely copy and adapt the most suitable courses

Who will pilot the project?

Piloted by:  Polytechnic of Namibia School of Communication  University of Namibia Department of Media Studies (Coordinated by UNESCO Windhoek) Development will commence very shortly Launch by November, 2011 We would like at least 1 OER Product from each Sector:  SC: Marovo Lagoon Encyclopedia  IOC: Ocean Teacher Academy  SHS: Bioethics Curriculum  CLT: Cultural Diversity Programming Lens  ED: Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE)

Preview

OER Community on the WSIS Platform    

Open community – www.wsis-community.org 1,400+ members 4 langauges: Eng, Fr, Sp, Pt Call for language versions

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UNESCO-maintained Global List of OER Initiatives 250+ global list Is your initiative on the list??

Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL)    

EC-funded 2010 – 2011 Project: www.oer-quality.org 7 partners: UNESCO, ICDE, EFQUEL, Aalto, OU UK, UCP, UDE Objective: create an advanced OER Practices Framework Building OPAL Register and OPAL Clearing House

2012 World OER Forum    

10th Anniversary of the 2002 Forum June, 2012 Showcase world’s best OER policies, practices, tools, resources, and experts Present the 2012 Paris OER Declaration

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Start planning that trip to Paris 

Contact Abel Caine OER Programme Specialist ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section Information Society Division Communication and Information (CI) Sector UNESCO 1, rue Miollis Paris 75015 France E-mail: a.caine@unesco.org Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 42 37