Global Visions of OER Beyond 2020. ICDE WCOL2019, Dublin Ireland. 3-7 November 2019. Contribution from ICDE OER Advocacy Committee

1. GLOBAL VISIONS OF
OER BEYOND 2020
Dublin Ireland
5 November 2019
#wcol2019
ICDE OER ADVOCACY COMMITTEE
ICDE AMBASSADOR FOR THE
GLOBAL ADVOCACY OF OER

2. ICDE OER Advocacy Committee
ICDE Ambassador for the
global advocacy of OER
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Chair. SE
Paul Bacsich; W India
Jean Marc Meunier; FR
Valerie Peachey; AU
James Glapa-Grossklag, US
Xiangyang Zhang, China

3. Suggested agenda
15:30 - 15:35 Welcome by Ebba, background on OERAC
15:35 - 15:45 Provocations by OERAC members (those of you who want to participate,
please choose one of the recommendations, for the others we have to raise other
provocative questions, 1 minute each) on each of the recommendations as below, and
the rest it will be maybe to question it all as for example why does it matter when we are
learning in a global digital open context (as in Europe the European Commission stress
that there are no needs for digital strategies any longer, but there are huge needs for
strategies in a digital society A Ferrary EC Commissioner, June 2019)
15:45 - 16:15 Active session among the participants
16:15 - 16:30 Ebba summarizes

4. ICDE OER Advocacy Committee
ICDE Ambassador for the global advocacy of OER
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Consultant and VP, Swedish Association of
Distance Education (SADE), Sweden
Mark Brown, Office of the Vice President, Dublin City University,
Ireland
Cable Green, Lead OER, Creative Commons, USA, co-opted 8
October 2019 to replace Cable is Jennryn Wetzler, Assistant Director
Director of Open Edu, Creative Commons, USA
Cengiz Hakan Aydin, Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey
Paul Bacsich, Professor of Practice, University of West Indies Open
Campus, Barbados
Chandra Shekhar Dubey, Director, Campus of Open Learning, Delhi
University, India
James Glapa-Glossklag, Dean and Treasurer of the Board, College of
the Canyons and Open Education Consortium, USA
Dhaneswar Harichandan, Director, Institute of Distance and Open
Learning, University of Mumbai, India
Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC-Irvine California,
USA
Jean-Marc Meunier, President and VP, FIED and University of Paris
VIII Vincennes – St-Denis, France
Valerie Peachey, Professor in Open Education, Charles Stuart
University, Australia
Xiangyang Zhang, Open University of Jiangsu, China

5. GUIDELINES FOR MEMBERS OF THE ICDE OER
ADVOCACY COMMITTEE, ICDE OERAC
Advocacy is on OER.
Applications for a membership in the ICDE OER Advocacy
Committee can be made by an expert ICDE member that has a
record and capacity to contribute to significant advocacy for OER.
Members are appointed as ICDE OER Ambassadors by the ICDE
Executive Committee.
When appropriate, members of the committee should seek
collaboration with OER Chairs and relevant stakeholders to achieve
synergy in OER advocacy.
The ICDE OER Ambassador is not a funded position, but awarding it
provides extra profile to the holder, expressing ICDE’s interest in
his/her voice on OER, underlining his/her reputation.
ICDE OER Ambassadors are bound to establish a network among
themselves in which they and their teams collaborate, and to which
experts in the subject area from other institutions may be
admitted.
ICDE OER Ambassadors are expected to jointly and individually plan
OER advocacy actions.
When invited and if possible, Ambassadors should be prepared to
play a role at e.g. ICDE World Conferences, Leadership Summits,
Regional Conferences, Expert Seminars or other events relevant for
the purpose.
The Chair for the ICDE OAC suggests its activities and progress in
collaboration with the ICDE Secretariat. The ICDE OER Ambassadors
have an independent position and will inform ICDE of their
activities through a light-version annual report.

7. Headings of
UNESCO OER
recommendation
2019
1. Build the capacity of stakeholders to find, re-use,
create and share OER
2. Develop supportive policy
3. Ensure inclusive and equitable access to quality
OER
4. Nurture the creation of sustainability models for
OER
5. Facilitate international co-operation

8. Two questions:
1. In your context,
what is the vision
of the future of
OER?
2. What do you
need from others
in order to
succeed?

9. Interactive dialogue
1. Describe your context for OER - region, sector,
role, etc.
2. In your context, what is the vision of the
future of OER? (Target your comments to the
headings of the UNSECO recommendation,
below)
3. What is needed for this vision to succeed?
What is your call to action?