THE FREE AND OPEN COLLECTIONS
Laura Franklin
Moustapha Diack
Barbara Dieu
Global Education Conference
November 17th, 2010

Laura Franklin
lfranklin@nvcc.edu

Professor Moustapha Diack
moustapha_diack@subr.edu
SL: moustapha shilling

Barbara Dieu
http://barbaradieu.com
Bee
http://beespace.net
Bee Kerouac
SL
http://twitter.com/bdieu

WHERE I WORK

WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING

NAVEGAR É PRECISO
http://beespace.net/resources/navquest

ACCESSIBILITY MATTERS
IN OER
DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT
BUILDING LOCALLY
SHARING GLOBALLY

• Language
• Design (concepts of
openness)
• Universal Design for
Learning
• Physical Infrastructure
BARRIERS TO
ACCESSIBILITY

Internet - a predominantly English-speaking
medium:
- 80 % of the distributed learning resources on
the Internet are in English
- 80 % of the global Community do not speak
English
UN members speak at least 60 languages
- not everyone is comfortable expressing
themselves in English
Diplo Foundations on Internet Governance
http://www.diplomacy.edu/ISL/IG/default.htm
Language a Big Problem to Solve
BARRIERS TO OER
ACCESSIBILITY

Top Ten Languages Internet

Top Ten Languages Web
Top Ten Languages Internet Stats were updated for June 30 2010.
Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

a) Technology and Exemplary Communities
b) Emerging Technology Solutions:
translation tools, automated translation services
Eg. Language Weaver: trusted automated
translation solutions for high-value, dynamic digital
information to improve human communications
c) Collaborative Work on OER Translations
The Way Forward
LANGUAGE:
A BIG PROBLEM TO SOLVE

http://adoteumparagrafo.pbworks.com/
Community of learning and practice around shared interest
Suggest articles for translation on new media, Internet culture by
bookmarking in delicious
http://www.delicious.com/tag/adoteumparagrafo
Each person adopts one or more paragraph of an article of
interest
Work on wiki (experimented on Google Translator)
Revision by one person at the end
Presential meetings to meet peers and celebrate completion
ADOTE UM PARAGRAFO

http://universalsubtitles.org/
UNIVERSAL SUBTITLES

http://www.franceculture.com/
http://owni.fr/
Which is more accessible to educators
and learners?
LICENCES
FRANCE CULTURE X OWNI

MERLOT World Languages Portal
an educational resource for teaching and learning languages.
MERLOT World Languages Community
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
http://worldlanguages.merlot.org/

UNESCO: Multilingualism + OER Community
Make OER accessible in the variou UN partner countries.
http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Global Textbook Project
open content electronic textbooks freely available from a website
http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/
HOW TO GET INVOLVED

http://man.merlot.org/projects/index.html
Promoting Open Education Resources
in French-Speaking Africa
http://fr.wikieducator.org/REL-AF
HOW TO GET INVOLVED

Adopting the Quality Matters
Process and Rubric
in French West Africa
http://fr.wikieducator.org/Questions_de_Qualité/Introduction
HOW TO GET INVOLVED

http://rea.net.br
http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rea
Promoting and Developing
Open Education Resources
in Portuguese
HOW TO GET INVOLVED

ANY QUESTIONS?
THANK YOU!