ELA organisation EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS Malawi, South-eastern Africa.
Open educational practices, a tool for empowerment
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Open educational practices, a tool for empowerment.
Alastair Creelman@alacre
Linnaeus University, Sweden
55 million people in EU speak languages that are not official EU languages
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OER sustainability
Open licenses (Creative Commons)
Plan for sharing, reuse and adaptation
Easy to edit and subtitle
Metadata
• Information• Quality
assurance/rating• Links to other
resources• Facilitate
discoverability• Example from
Sophia.org
Translation – a community approach
• Google Translator Toolkit• YouTube translation• TED Open translation projec
t• Khan Academy translation• Amara subtitle editor• More detailed presentation:
Open Educational Practices in small languages: the role of community engagement
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Open courses
• Open course platforms to enable smaller languages to exploit MOOC movement
• Commonwealth of learning MOOC4D
• Apps for language learning, Memrise
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Smaller languages on Wikipedia
• Digital activism• Visibility• Credibility• Empowerment• Enthusiasts first, then community• Uniting speakers around the world• Example – minority languages in Russia
Images: CC BY-SA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedia communities
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Konkani Wikipedia
Wikimedistas de Colombia
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Communities of practice
Open Education in Minority Languages: Chances and PerspectivesLangOER seminar, Leeuwarden, 7-8 October 2015
• Open resources that are easy to edit• Networking between RML communities• Involve students• Mutual support, sharing and inspiration• Competence development• Multi-lingual repositories• Process of creation more important
than results
See Conference Padlet wall
Questions/ideas/examples?
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