Nordic cooperation in

open education

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Alastair Creelmanalastair.creelman@lnu.se

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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

Webinars

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Attitudes

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NordicOER building a Nordic alliance for

Open Education

• Network and project• Recommendations in

7 languages• Position paper• Cooperation with

other projects• #nordicoer

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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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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Nordic OER position paper

Goals and Objectives

Barriers

Actions

Recommendations

• Policy

• Institutions

• Individuals

Finding Nordic OERhttp://nordicoer.org/find-oer/

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nordicoer.org

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/

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

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.

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• Corridor of Uncertainty (English)• Flexspan (Swedish)• Corridor of Learning (what I’m

reading)• Flexflow (magazine with news from

my network)

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