The presentation introduces the Nordic Open Education Alliance which aims at promoting and support the uptake of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Nordic countries. The presentation discusses the current status in the Nordic countries and the possibilities to engage in global collaborations. How can we support OER as a tool for educators around the globe? How can we create, re-use and share OER to support global collaborations?

1. 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
Alliance
Homepage: http://www.nordlet.org/
Position Paper: http://tinyurl.com/nordic-position

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4. Jyvä skylä , Finland
Source: [http://www.jyu.fi/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/]

5. Global Information Systems
at the University of Jyvä skylä
Focus areas Projects
Global Information Systems OpenDiscoverySpace: OER for
Supporting globally distributed Schools
workgroups OpenScout: OER for Management
Open Educational Resources TELMAP: Technology Forecasting
Reference Modeling NORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network
for Learning, Education and
Training
E-Learning
COSMOS: Open Science
Supporting international
Resources: Exchange of Scientific
education settings
Content
Cultural adaptation
ASPECT: Open Content and
Standardization & Quality standards for schools
Management
iCOPER: New standards for
Mobile & Ambient Learning educational technologies
Innovative tools and solutions

6. Open Educational Resources…
Resources: Learning materials, courses,
simulations
Tools: LMS, collaboration tools, …
Practices and experiences!

7. Open Education on the Move
UNESCO Paris EU Horizon 2020:
OER Declaration 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.

8. How to make an
“OER difference”
on a global scale?

9. How to utilize OER for global
collaborations across borders and
cultures?

10. Nordic Openness
Society open for teachers’
Open for Ideas and appreciation
Innovation
Education open for anyone
(schools, universities, adult
Open Pedagogies education)
and Curricula

11. Nordic OER
NDLA icooperation between 18
counties
NRK: nrk.no/skole
delogbruk.no Norwegian Web
2.0 initiative
EDU.fi by the Finnish National
utdanning.no official national Board of Education
education and career portal,.
learning resources in Swedish
ovttas.no is a collection of edu.fi/hitta_material/digitala_lar
pedagogical articles resurser
Lä nkhå ven
Snar.fo public portal for Instructions for teachers
educational content teacher cards
Small Highschools in Finland
LeMill, collaboration with
Estonia
inks and information by
Skolverket
EMU
project
Materialeplatformen national
OER - Open opportunities for learning
repository for all Danish
involves nine universities
learning resources
UR access by
portal for academic lectures by
Utbildningsradion (UR)
Danish Public Broadcasting
Spindeln search engine
Duda.dk
Libguides iportal for resources
on OER

12. The Nordic Situation
Perfect ground for Nordic and
global collaboration
“Open” Approaches widely used
O ER
BUT….
– Lack of awareness on all levels
– No policies in place
– Very few Nordic collaborations
….and unfortunately: a strong
lack of global collaboration!

13. 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 countries
To contribute to global educational development
To support the implementation of the Paris OER
Declaration and future EU OER initiatives in the Nordic
countries
To 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
organizations
To 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

14. Nordic OE Alliance: Vision 2017
The Nordic countries are a leading area regarding global and European
OER
Ministries and universities acknowledge and support use of OER
Educators are aware of OER and how to access and utilize OER
“Opening up Education values” are shared by a majority of
educators
All schools and institutions have the freedom to choose between their
own, commercial or open materials
OER creation is rewarded in tenure and evaluation procedures
Communities have formed on research and teaching
Access to OER exists through communities
Cost of educational materials has decreased
New businesses have been formed providing educational services
All publicly funded materials are shared and distributed with open
licenses
Quality mechanisms are available and known
All schools and educational institutions are involved in long-term
educational collaborations, nationally as well as internationally
Materials and expertise are made available globally
Individuals and institutions engage in cross-border collaborations

15. Nordic OE Alliance: Position Paper
http://www.nordlet.org/?q=position
Goals and Objectives
Barriers
Actions
How to make it
Recommendations work?
How to create long-
– Policy term, trusted,
– Institutions mutual
partnerships?
– Individuals

16. 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!

17. OER creation process
Re-thinking the way we create OER
Openness and mutual understanding
Building meaning and ownership
Collaborative
Development
Re-Design
Imperfect Design
Collaborative
Idea Sharing
Teaching
Design &
Re-Use
Develop
Improvement
Reputation
Managemnent
Re-Publish

18. 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

19. 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 Lecture & Discussion Open Source -> Catheral & Bazaar, Open
Basics Access, “Open” Classification
3 OER Demonstration and Hands-On Repository Demonstration
search Exercise 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

20. Imperfect Design: Ideas and Sketches
Images: Tore Hoel, http://insulardrafts.tumblr.com/

21. Imperfect Design: Simple Outlines
Source: http://www.mentormob.com

22. Imperfect Design: Prototypes

23. Summary
Nordic Open Education Alliance provides an
access point to Nordic Open Education
Growing initiative to represent Nordic interests
and opportunities
Support of global collaboration instead of
export
Promoting 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 colleagues
Join the partnership!

24. 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?

25. Contact us…
Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski
jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi
GLIS on the web…
http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow
Nordic Open Education
Alliance
Homepage: http://www.nordlet.org/
Position Paper: http://tinyurl.com/nordic-position
LinkedIn Community:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Nordic-Open-Education-Nordic-OER-4816636