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This project was financed with the support of the European Commission. This publication is the sole responsibility of
the author and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Welcome to the LangOER conference!
Cor van der Meer, Katerina Zourou, Jim Ayre

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LangOER project partners

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Scope of the LangOER project
• Enhance the linguistic and cultural components of OER
• Raise awareness of risk of exclusion of less used languages
• Foster sustainability through OER reuse
• Address needs of policy makers and educators:
– Offer training to educators of less used languages, including regional and minority
languages
– International policy makers capacity building / Mainstream good practice at European
policy making level

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The state-of-the-art report covers 23 languages
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Series of webinars- videorecorded on our website
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-Why OER in a language classroom?
–What kind of pedagogical and
technological transitions are
underway?
–What are the perceived obstacles and
threats?
-How does the future of OER look like?
Videos available at
http://langoer.eun.org/videos
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Series of expert videos

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A policy Brief
Open Educational Resources in
your own language, in your way.
Available in Arabic, Dutch, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Swedish, Greek, Polish,
French, Norwegian,
Faroese, Frisian and Russian.
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Teacher training activities on OER
Teacher training activities in blended mode carried out in 6 countries (GR,
NL, LV, LT, PL, and SE) in Spring –Summer 2015
Covering: Licensing, how to find and use OER, how to create OER; how to
mix resources containing different types of licensing
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https://www.openlearning.com/courses/goingopenwithlangoer

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A handbook
A handbook for teachers
free to download.
http://langoer.eun.org/
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LangOER collection of educational resources at
the LRE
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Open-access
journal issue:
Social
dynamics in
open
educational
language
practice
https://alsic.re
vues.org/2871

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Check all
our
resources:

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• The release of a policy paper
• A consultation mechanism for policy makers
What is next?

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• Opening message and keynote presentation
• Presentation of LangOER policy recommendations
• Interactive sessions on key topics related to OER and languages
(26 and 27)
– Key aim also to discuss and contribute to the recommendations
• Presentation of other experiences related to OER uptake at EU
and global level (27)
Conference agenda and objectives

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WIFI pw - PALACE
Hashtags for social media #LangOER #LangOERconf
Policy recommendations documents
Summary - http://bit.ly/2d67PBr
Addendum - http://bit.ly/2cqUKQh
Policy recommendations consultation tools
http://tinyurl.com/langOERpolicy
Useful information

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Thank you!
Staying in touch
http://langoer.eun.org/
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