Presentation of OER initiatives in the Nordic region by Alastair Creelman. Estonian Information Technology Foundation for Education conference, Turning point in education, 9-11 April 2014

1. Nordic
cooperation in
open
education
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2. Alastair Creelman
alastair.creelman@lnu.se
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Blogs on IT and learning
Corridor of Uncertainty (English)
Flexspan (Swedish)
Twitter: @alacre

3. OER Sverige (#oerswe)

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OER Sverige
• Increase national
collaboration in OER
• Create effective online
methods to support
teachers and students
• Raise awareness of OER
• Contribute to the
creation of a national
structure for tagging,
distribution and storage
of OER

5. Webinars
9 webinars
1589 registered
1146 participants
4232 views

6. Attitudes
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7. NordicOER
building a Nordic alliance for
Open Education
• Network and project
• Recommendations in
7 languages
• Position paper
• Cooperation with
other projects
• #nordicoer

8. Barriers to OER
• No national policies or
incentives
• Low level of
coordination between
sectors
• Lack of sharing culture
• Lack of recognition
• Suspicion of openness
• Hard to find resources
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9. Opportunities for OER
• Culture of openness and
transparency
• Catalyst for innovation in
education
• New models for education
• New publishing models
• Quality focus, peer review
for learning and teaching
• Language and culture
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10. Nordic OER position paper
Goals and Objectives
Barriers
Actions
Recommendations
• Policy
• Institutions
• Individuals

11. Finding Nordic OER
http://nordicoer.org/find-oer/
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12. nordicoer.org

13. 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.
Sustainability in OER for less used
languages
http://langoer.eun.org/

14. Project challenges
• Enhance the linguistic and cultural components of
OER
• Foster sustainability through OER reuse
• Address needs of policy makers AND educators
• Raise awareness of risk of exclusion of less used
languages from the OER landscape
• Offer training to educators of less used languages,
face-to-face and online
• Embrace stakeholders of regional and minority
languages to gain knowledge, develop skills

15. International workshop on policy for OER
and less used languages
28 April, Oslo
OER and challenges and opportunities for less used
languages in a global, European, Nordic and national
perspective.

16. My digital footprints ...
Blogs about net learning
• Corridor of Uncertainty (English)
• Flexspan (Swedish)
• Corridor of Learning (what I’m
reading)
• Flexflow (magazine with news from
my network)
Twitter (links to articles and news)
http://twitter.com/alacre
My bookmarks
http://www.diigo.com/user/alacre
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