Linguistic Diversity on the Web: Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices by Marit Bijlsma at SOAS London 2015.

1. 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.
Linguistic Diversity on the Web: Open Educational
Resources and Open Educational Practices
Marit Bijlsma
26th of June 2015, SOAS London
# langOER

2. The LangOER project
•Enhance the linguistic and cultural
components of OER
•Raise awareness of risk of
exclusion of less used languages
•Foster sustainability through OER
reuse
•Offer training to educators of less used languages, including
regional and minority languages
•International policy makers capacity building / Mainstream good
practice at European policy making level

3. What can we learn today?

4. What can we learn today?
-Know what ‘Open’ really means;
-Know the difference between Open Educational
Resources and other digital content on the web;
- Know where to find OER materials;
-Know which type of materials are best to adjust
to your own context.

5. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources:
• Open digital learning materials
• Free to use
• 5 rights for the user (Wiley):
Retain – Reuse – Revise – Remix – Redistribute
• Under certain conditions (open license)

6. The concept of openness
Open Educational Resources:
• Open digital learning materials
• Free to use
• 5 rights for the user (Wiley):
Retain – Reuse – Revise – Remix – Redistribute
• Under certain conditions (open license)

7. Conditions for openness: Copyright and CC

8. Copyright en Creative Commons Licenties
No derivatives: Other can use and distribute your work, under the
condition that it keeps it’s original form.
Attribution: You allow others to use, distribute, copy and remix your
material, under the condition that you are named as the author
Non- Commercial: Other can freely use and remix, adapt and
distribute your work, only not for commercial use.
Share a like: You allow others to adapt your work under the
condition that they release it under the same license conditions as
the original work.

9. Benefit of Creative Commons
To continue with the open tradition of learning
materials means: Allowing others to freely use and
adapt your material

10. What did we learn?
-Know what ‘Open’ really means
-Know the difference between Open Educational
Resources and other digital content on the web

11. What did we learn?
-Know what ‘Open’ really means √
-Know the difference between OER and other
digital content on the web

12. What did we learn?
-Know what ‘Open’ really means √
-Know the difference between OER and other
digital content on the web √

13. Where to find OER materials?
?

14. Multilingual OER repositories
Lemill as an example “Web community for finding, authoring and sharing
learning resources for school teachers” http://lemill.net/

15. Multilingual OER repositories
Learning Resource Exchange http://lreforschools.eun.org

16. Other ways to find OER...
Strategy 1: Use a dedicated CC
search engine which filters the
web content for licensed
materials. The best example
here is a Creative Commons
search engine
Strategy 2: Use advanced search
preferences in the Google (or
other) search engine.
Strategy 3: Use one of the dedicated
repositories of images or other
media.

17. What did we learn?
-Know what ‘Open’ really means √
-Know the difference between OER and other
digital content on the web √
- Know where to find OER materials

18. What did we learn?
-Know what ‘Open’ really means √
-Know the difference between OER and other
digital content on the web √
- Know where to find OER materials √

19. “ Travel well” Criteria
How can you recognize content that truly lives up
to the promise of OERs: re-usability, flexibility and
quality? (European Schoolnet, Travel well Criteria)

20. “ Travel well” Criteria
• Clear lisense status!
•Transnational Topic
• Knowledge of a specific language is not needed
•Stored as a file type that is usable with generally
available software
•Methodological support is not needed
•Intuitive and easy to use

21. What did we learn?
-Know what ‘Open’ really means √
-Know the difference between OER and other
digital content on the web √
- Know where to find OER materials √
-Know which type of materials are best to adjust
to your own context √

22. What makes OER important for maintaining
and fostering linguistic diversity on the web?

23. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of
the author and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Upcoming activities
7-8 October 2015 (Leeuwarden, Mercator Research Centre)
Open Learning in Minority Languages:Chances and Perspecives
Mercator@fryske-akademy.nl

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Tank you for your attention!

25. Additional information slides

26. …but there are some challenges
• Searching, discoverability and sharing
• Copyright and quality
• Concepts of the culture of OEP and reflective practice is novel to
some groups
• Incentives for fully sustained development
• For some teachers, resources are not be shared as they are ‘their
stock-in-trade’

27. Active online communities