Author - Vaino Brazdeikis, Centre of Information Technology for Education (CITE), Director. The presentation discuss about national the initiative, which provide digital content to schools (Portal Emokykla, et al.), to supply teachers with technology and help them with the required competencies. It also introduces ideas for developing a safe Internet network for schools, support for schools in implementation virtual environments, support ICT coordinators. The article also highlights initiatives by other institutions that improve the openness education in Lithuania

1. National ICT Implementation Initiatives for
Educational Openness
Dr. Vaino Brazdeikis
Centre of Information Technology for Education
Ministry Education and Science
Lithuania
10.11.2017
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National ICT
Implementati
on Initiatives
for
Educational
Openness

2. Challenges for the mainstreaming of OER
1)the capacity of users to find, re-use, create, and share OER
2)ensuring inclusive and equitable access to quality OER
3)language and cultural issues
4)changing sustainability models
5)developing supportive policy environments
LJUBLJANA OER ACTION PLAN 2017

3. 1 challenge. The capacity of users to find, re-use,
create, and share OER
• Teachers Qualification Improvement Concept (2012) : Use of information technologies and
information management skills are teachers’ general competencies
• Teachers developing ICT competencies should gain:
•The basics of technological literacy (Technology part)
•Educational ICT application competence (Education part)
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Pedagogues who obtained ICT literacy skills
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4. Initiative: Support of teachers’ courses
Centre of information technology for education
• Distance learning course „Teachers' Computer Literacy: Educational Part“
• "Moodle 2.7" or “Itslearning” (part of project "E. School "Development")
• Safe internet
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Education Development Centre (EDC), regional teachers training centers….

5. Teachers competencies (new development)
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Pedagogues using internet in
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Teachers Sharing Experiences in
Virtual Communities
• Attention to sharing experience in virtual communities
• Self - assessment

6. 3 challenge. Ensuring inclusive and equitable access to
quality OER;
• Devices: computers, mobile devices….
• Highway: Broadband, Wifi ….
• Digital content: collection of free, open and quality
software

7. Initiative: Schools computerization
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8. Use of own mobile phone

9. Initiative: Broadband for schools and home
• Broadband networks for rural area
(RAIN) are creating Internet access
for all country
• Academic and Research
Network in Lithuania LITNET
Rain 1: 3357 km. of fiber optical, 509 network
nodes; value - 21 million EUR
RAIN – 2, RAIN - 3…..
WIFI for schools: Safe internet (WIFI) for
all schools through LITNET

10. Initiative: Digital content (general education)
Ugdymo sodas, Advice for teachers, some collection OER,
https://sodas.ugdome.lt/
Vocational training some collection OER http://www.kpmpc.lt/kpmpc/profesinis-mokymas-
3/programos-ir-istekliai/mokymo-mokymosi-istekliai/
Adult education Self courses (OER), https://www.smis.lt/
eMokykla – learning object metadata (LOM) More than 8 000 object
www.emokykla.lt
Connection to http://lreforschools.eun.org

11. Digital content (general education)
• Mother language (cover 77 % national content) ;
• Math ( 100 %);
• Biology (100 %);
• Chemistry (87 %);
• Physics (90 %);
• Science (67 %);
• History(60 %);
• English (50 %);
• Geography (24 %);
• Economy (14 %);
• There are a number of Lithuanian original (or
translated / localized) OER
• Main challenge is quality, needs to update
http://www.upc.smm.lt/projektai/sklaida/SMP-analize.pdf

12. OER (High education)
The Lithuanian Academic
Electronic Library (eLABa)
open access (OA) repository
https://www.elaba.lt/elaba-portal/pradzia
Kaunas University of
Technology
mass open courses (MOOC)
https://open.ktu.edu/
Vytautas Magnus
University
Open resurse collection
http://studyonline.lt/en/study-of-
innovation/open-educational-resources/

13. 3 challenge. Language & Cultural issues
Development of public services for the syntactic-semantic analysis of the Lithuanian language text
system (SEMANTIKA 2) // Vytautas Magnus University
Development of the Lithuanian language resource information system (in E. language) // Vilnius
University
Improvement and development of machine translation and localization services // Lietuvių kalbos
institutas
Development of services managed by the Lithuanian speech "LIEPA" 2 // Vilnius University
Development of Integrated Information System for Lithuanian Language and Writing Resources –
Rastija 2 // Vilnius University
Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS) - panorama of the Lithuanian cultural heritage
(Ministry of Culture).
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania – member of Europeana, by 2015 over
159,000 object had been contributed .

14. 4 challenge. Changing sustainability models
5 challenge. The development of supportive policy
environments
• Lithuania do not have policy for OER
• Different ministries (Education, Culture, Communication) are
working in the field of OER
• Necessity to include business representatives in implementation
of the OER's ideas. New solution in the Structural Funds project
(2018-2020) expect that digitalization tools will be developed in
cooperation with business to ensure quality.

15. Perspective results in openness
• Teachers actively participate in virtual
forums, exchange their experience, and
participate in distant learning (e.g.
MOOC)
• Open content and other resources are
accessible by schools’ safe wireless
networks. Students can use their own
mobile devices for learning both at
school and at home (BYOD)
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16. • Thank you!
• Questions?
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