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UNESCO OER Platform

The UNESCO OER Platform offers stakeholders the ability to freely access, adapt, and share educational resources. It provides functionalities such as finding and comparing content, building and sharing unique adaptations, translations, localization, innovation, offline editing, and mobile phone access. An ideal CI OER product, the platform includes generic curricula for journalism education available in multiple languages. The project will be piloted by the Polytechnic of Namibia School of Communication and the University of Namibia Department of Media Studies.

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UNESCO OER Platform

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  1. UNESCO OER Platform ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section Information Society Division Communication and Information (CI) Sector www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer www.unesco.org/webworld/fr/oer

  2. What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)? UNESCO defines Open Educational Resources (OERs) as: • Learning especially eLearning resources and tools • in open document format • and released under an intellectual property licence, or in the public domain allowing free use and re-use 2002 UNESCO OpenCourseware Forum

  3. What is the UNESCO OER Platform? The UNESCO OER Platform seeks to: • radically “enhance” UNESCO’s Clearing House function by • offering “certain” UNESCO publications as OER products and • allowing “stakeholders” to freely copy, adapt, and share their resources.

  4. Who are the UNESCO Stakeholders? • Decision-makers and Policy-makersat Ministry or institutional-level looking for model policies, guides, or best-practices; • Teacherslooking for courses, syllabi, and teaching materials and • Learnersalso looking for additional courses to study

  5. Functionalities of the OER Platform • Find and compare: stakeholders can freely use the UNESCO base product to find and compare content • Build and share:stakeholders can freely copy, build and share their unique adaptations • Translations: significantly higher than the 6 languages from UNESCO • Localization: incorporating the more relevant and superior quality and quantity of the national or regional literature base on the subject area; • Innovation: the creation of new, customized versions, e.g. Guide on Internet Access for Disabled Journalists based on the original UNESCO “The Net for Journalists” • Offline editing: critically important for countries with poor internet • Mobile phone access: taking advantage of 5 billion access points

  6. An ideal CI OER Product • “UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education” • Generic, adaptable, fully-prescriptive Curricula: • Course descriptions • Pedagogical approaches • Mode, weekly class agenda, number of teaching hours • Recommended text • Grading and assessment protocols • Available in 6 official languages • Adapted by 50+ institutions in 45 countries with backlog • The OER Platform allows a new journalism school to: • easily find courses, • compare how other schools have adapted them, and • freely copy and adapt the most suitable courses

  7. Who will pilot the project? Piloted by: • Polytechnic of Namibia School of Communication • University of Namibia Department of Media Studies (Coordinated by UNESCO Windhoek) Development will commence very shortly Launch by November, 2011 We would like at least 1 OER Product from each Sector: • SC: Marovo Lagoon Encyclopedia • IOC: Ocean Teacher Academy • SHS: Bioethics Curriculum • CLT: Cultural Diversity Programming Lens • ED: Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE)

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  9. OER Community on the WSIS Platform • Open community – www.wsis-community.org • 1,400+ members • 4 langauges: Eng, Fr, Sp, Pt • Call for language versions • UNESCO-maintained Global List of OER Initiatives • 250+ global list • Is your initiative on the list??

  10. Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) • EC-funded 2010 – 2011 Project: www.oer-quality.org • 7 partners: UNESCO, ICDE, EFQUEL, Aalto, OU UK, UCP, UDE • Objective: create an advanced OER Practices Framework • Building OPAL Register and OPAL Clearing House

  11. 2012 World OER Forum • 10th Anniversary of the 2002 Forum • June, 2012 • Showcase world’s best OER policies, practices, tools, resources, and experts • Present the 2012 Paris OER Declaration • Start planning that trip to Paris 

  12. Contact Abel Caine OER Programme Specialist ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section Information Society Division Communication and Information (CI) Sector UNESCO 1, rue Miollis Paris 75015 France E-mail: a.caine@unesco.org Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 42 37

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