LangOER Conference: Welcome message

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Welcome to the LangOER conference!Cor van der Meer, Katerina Zourou, Jim Ayre

LangOER project partners

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

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 athttp://langoer.eun.org/videos

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Series of expert videos

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

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 practicehttps://alsic.revues.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 - PALACEHashtags for social media #LangOER #LangOERconf

Policy recommendations documentsSummary - http://bit.ly/2d67PBrAddendum - http://bit.ly/2cqUKQh

Policy recommendations consultation toolshttp://tinyurl.com/langOERpolicy

Useful information

Thank you!Staying in touch

http://langoer.eun.org/

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