Presentation in the Estonian e-learning conference, 3 April 2009, Tartu.

1. Open educational resources in Estonia
Hans Põldoja

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3. What are open
educational
resources?

4. Open access
(Schaffert & Geser 2008)

5. Open license

6. Open format

7. Open source

8. ... because we should not
reinvent the wheel

9. Part I: Flying low

10. http://lemill.net

11. 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

12. Designed for teachers
• Scenarios
• Design sessions
• User stories
• Prototypes

13. Design session results
• Teachers are
looking for
something else
than raw text
material
• Learning
resources can be
divided to
content, activities
and tools

15. Learning resources
Web page Lesson plan
Presentation School project
Exercise PILOT

24. 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

25. Reusing open content
12 500 000
BY
4 200 000 9000
8 400 000
media files content modules
BY-SA
photos

26. Embedding copyrighted content

27. More than content
• Methods
• Tools
• Collections
• Teaching and
learning stories

32. LeMill as a social software
• Linking people by
location, skills and
interests
• Groups for
collaborative
authoring
• Group forums

35. Members
6000
5265
4708
4500
2959
3000 2796
2337
1698
1500
867
666
465 414
374
364
359
343
273
242
111
105
89
65
27 18
5
4
0
Jul 2006 Jan 2007 Jul 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Jan 2009
Estonia Total

36. Members by specified country
20%
36%
5%
5%
5%
11%
18%
Estonia Georgia Hungary Finland Czech Republic Lithuania Other

39. Part II: Flying high

41. http://www.wikiversity.org

46. Part III: OER ecosystem

47. Learning content
link and tag
Course wiki and blog
link and tag link
link link
Student blogs
RSS

48. Part IV: problems

49. License incompatibility

51. Copyright law and
work contracts

52. Institutional stagnation

53. Collaboration culture
among teachers

56. 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

57. 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/

58. Thank You!
• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja/