The Nordic Open Education Alliance
Open Education in the Nordic Countries and Global Collaboration
Jan M. Pawlowski
OER Sverige, 05.02.2013
Nordic Open Education AllianceHomepage: http://www.nordlet.org/
Position Paper: http://tinyurl.com/nordic-position LinkedIn Community:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Nordic-Open-Education-Nordic-OER-4816636
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Source: [http://www.jyu.fi/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/]
Global Information Systemsat the University of Jyväskylä
Focus areasGlobal Information SystemsSupporting globally distributed workgroupsOpen Educational ResourcesReference Modeling
E-LearningSupporting international education settingsCultural adaptationStandardization & Quality Management Mobile & Ambient LearningInnovative tools and solutions
ProjectsOpenDiscoverySpace: OER for SchoolsOpenScout: OER for ManagementTELMAP: Technology ForecastingNORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network for Learning, Education and TrainingCOSMOS: Open Science Resources: Exchange of Scientific ContentASPECT: Open Content and standards for schoolsiCOPER: New standards for educational technologies
Open Educational Resources…
Resources: Learning materials, courses, simulations
Tools: LMS, collaboration tools, …
Practices and experiences!
Open Education on the Move
UNESCO Paris OER Declaration
EU Horizon 2020: Opening Up Education
e. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials. Support institutions, train and motivate teachers and other personnel to produce and share high-quality, accessible educational resources, taking into account local needs and the full diversity of
learners. Promote quality assurance and peer review of OER. Encourage the development of mechanisms for the assessment and certification of learning outcomes achieved through OER.
f. Foster strategic alliances for OER. Take advantage of evolving technology to create opportunities for sharing materials which have been released under an open license in diverse
media and ensure sustainability through new strategic partnerships within and among the education, industry, library, media and telecommunications sectors.
g. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts. Favour the production and use of OER in local languages and diverse cultural contexts to
ensure their relevance and accessibility. Intergovernmental organisations should encourage the sharing of OER across languages and cultures, respecting indigenous knowledge and rights.
How to make an “OER difference” on a global scale?
How to utilize OER for global collaborations across borders and
cultures?
Nordic Openness
Open for Ideas and Innovation
Open Pedagogies and Curricula
Society open for teachers’ appreciation
Education open for anyone (schools, universities, adult education)
Nordic OER
EMU
Materialeplatformen national repository for all Danish learning resources
portal for academic lectures by Danish Public Broadcasting
Duda.dk
inks and information by Skolverket
project OER - Open opportunities for learning involves nine universities
UR access by Utbildningsradion (UR)
Spindeln search engine Libguides iportal for resources on OER
NDLA icooperation between 18 counties
NRK: nrk.no/skole
delogbruk.no Norwegian Web 2.0 initiative
utdanning.no official national education and career portal,.
ovttas.no is a collection of pedagogical articles
EDU.fi by the Finnish National Board of Education
learning resources in Swedish edu.fi/hitta_material/digitala_larresurser
Länkhåven
Instructions for teachers teacher cards
Small Highschools in Finland
LeMill, collaboration with Estonia
Snar.fo public portal for educational content
The Nordic Situation
Perfect ground for Nordic and global collaboration
“Open” Approaches widely used
BUT….– Lack of awareness on all levels– No policies in place– Very few Nordic collaborations
….and unfortunately: a strong lack of global collaboration!
OER
The Nordic Open Education Alliance
To contribute in utilizing OER for educational development in the Nordic countries and to enable and support collaborative actions in these countriesTo contribute to global educational developmentTo support the implementation of the Paris OER Declaration and future EU OER initiatives in the Nordic countriesTo analyze opportunities and barriers for a successful implementation of the Paris Declaration as well as current EU strategies in order to provide guidance for policy makers in governments, institutions and organizationsTo build and exchange knowledge on OER and OEP in the Nordic Region as a basis for good practices, inspiration for policy building and policy implementation
Nordic OE Alliance: Vision 2017The Nordic countries are a leading area regarding global and European OERMinistries and universities acknowledge and support use of OEREducators are aware of OER and how to access and utilize OER“Opening up Education values” are shared by a majority of educatorsAll schools and institutions have the freedom to choose between their own, commercial or open materialsOER creation is rewarded in tenure and evaluation proceduresCommunities have formed on research and teachingAccess to OER exists through communitiesCost of educational materials has decreased New businesses have been formed providing educational servicesAll publicly funded materials are shared and distributed with open licensesQuality mechanisms are available and knownAll schools and educational institutions are involved in long-term educational collaborations, nationally as well as internationallyMaterials and expertise are made available globallyIndividuals and institutions engage in cross-border collaborations
Nordic OE Alliance: Position Paper
http://www.nordlet.org/?q=position
Goals and Objectives
Barriers
Actions
Recommendations– Policy– Institutions– Individuals
How to make it work? How to create long-term, trusted, mutual partnerships?
Towards Nordic-Global Collaborations
Policy Level– Create multi-lateral educational partnerships– Support development of OER in different languages– Enforce collaborative research– Provide Nordic OER access points
Institutions– Commit to OER development: rewards and recognition – Utilize existing partnerships (ERASMUS, e-twinning, …)– Support and encourage collaborative teaching
Individuals– Create awareness– Create, collaborate, innovate!– Try out new ways of mutual collaboration!
OER creation processRe-thinking the way we create OER
Openness and mutual understanding
Building meaning and ownership
Design & Develop
Re-Design
Re-Use
Re-Publish
Imperfect DesignIdea Sharing
Collaborative Development
Collaborative Teaching
ImprovementReputation
Managemnent
Imperfect Design: Conceptual Models
Creating common ideas and common understanding on specific concepts
How to approach and structure the subject
Agreeing on concepts, differences, relations
Imperfect Design: Ideas, e.g. E-Learning with OER
Outcomes– Knowing “open” concepts and legal issues– Utilizing repositories and tools for creating new learning opportunities and collaborative teaching– Critically consider OER vs. commercial content
Lesson Method Remarks
1 Motivation Anchor Youtube-Video Creative Commons,
2 OER Basics Lecture & Discussion Open Source -> Catheral & Bazaar, Open Access, “Open” Classification
3 OER search
Demonstration and Hands-On Exercise
Repository Demonstration http//learn.openscout.net, Search for contents for mathematics on Pythagoras theorem
4 OER tools Case study Use OpenScout tool library to find the best tools for collaborative authoring (google docs, …)
5 Summary Learning Café Reporting experiences – what are pro’s and con’s of OER, what are operational problems
Imperfect Design: Ideas and Sketches
Images: Tore Hoel, http://insulardrafts.tumblr.com/
Imperfect Design: Simple Outlines
Source: http://www.mentormob.com
Imperfect Design: Prototypes
Summary
Nordic Open Education Alliance provides an access point to Nordic Open EducationGrowing initiative to represent Nordic interests and opportunitiesSupport of global collaboration instead of exportPromoting innovation – e.g. idea sharing, trust building, collaboration– Emotional (and collective) ownership– Co-creation in collaborations – Creating long term emotional bindings– OER as a dynamic process in groups of
trusted colleaguesJoin the partnership!
Starting Questions
What have you shared so far? Have you been involved in co-creation processes?
Which kind of artifacts would you share and how to make sense of them?
How to realize sharing processes at an early stage?
What are the needs, interests and opinions in your country?
Contact us…Prof. Dr. Jan M. [email protected]
GLIS on the web…
http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow
Nordic Open Education AllianceHomepage: http://www.nordlet.org/
Position Paper: http://tinyurl.com/nordic-position LinkedIn Community:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Nordic-Open-Education-Nordic-OER-4816636