The Nordic Alliance for Open Education: State-of-the-Art,

Challenges and Opportunities

Jan M. Pawlowski, Ebba Ossiannilsson, Alastair Creelman, Henri Pirkkalainen, Tore Hoel, Tapio Varis, Petri

Lounaskorpi, Oystein Johannessen, Gard Titlestad, Jan Hylen, Christian Hjorth Lund, Olavur Ellefsen

EDEN Conference, Oslo, 14.06.2013

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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?

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

Barriers (1/2)Aspect Barriers Opportunities / Impact Actions

Strategies and Policies: Specific OER Strategies

Lack of Nordic policies on OER Lack of national policies

Provide political guidance, support and engagement

Build a Nordic position on OER Create national OER policies

Enabling environments: Connectivity, mobility, literacy, standards

Lack of interoperability Lack of easy-to-use systems

Creating access to a variety of OER through national / regional portals and communities Utilize OER across platforms and systems

Create flexible portals and collaboration environments Support the development and use of (international) standards

Use and Awareness: Inclusion, access & equality

Lack of awareness and attitudes on policy and user level Lack of support by middle management in institutions

Allow collaborations within and across the Nordic countries as well as internationally

Create Nordic communities Connect to international communities Create and support university policy development

Open Licensing Frameworks (understanding, public funding)

Lack of knowledge on open licenses (eg Creative Commons)

Make simple licensing mechanisms, understandable to educators and others

Support and enforce use of open licenses

Sustainable Development and Quality: Supporting teachers, quality, peer review

Lack of uptake by teachers insecurities on quality lack of quality mechanisms

Creating collaborations and shared teaching Increase quality

Provide collaboration support and incentives Create user-based quality mechanisms

Barriers (2/2)Strategic Alliances: across borders, Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

Lack of policy instruments lack of partnerships

Increased international collaboration Supporting educational global collaborations

Provide programs for international shared teaching Support PPP and business model creation

Development / adaptation for culture / language: adaptation, accessibility

Lack of long-term collaborations Lack of accessibility Lack of tool to collaborate across borders

Allowing diversity and support of languages and culture Create access for special needs

Provide accessibility and adaptation guidance

Research: development, efficiency, quality

Lack of research on OER, in particular business models, acceptance, sector-specific uptake and effects

Increase research for OER and related topics, in particular applied research

Create specific OER research programs

Finding / retrieving: Services and tools, interoperability

Lack of knowledge on available tools

Create easy opportunities to find, adapt and embed OER

Use good practices and validated tools from international projects and collaborators

Change / adoption processes Lack of balanced approaches (bottom up and top down)

Create good practices of both, bottom up (eg initiated by students) and top down (eg providing institutional strategies)

Collect and synthesize mixed approaches to adoption and change

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: Position Paper

http://www.tinyurl.com/nordic-position

Goals and Objectives

Barriers

Actions

Recommendations– Policy– Institutions– Individuals

How to make it work? How to create long-term, trusted, mutual partnerships?

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

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!

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!

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Nordic Open Education Alliancehttp://www.nordlet.org/