My presentation at TESOL on OER Movement for Social Justice and English Language Teaching 20 February 2021

1. OER MOVEMENT
FOR SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
TEACHING
Ebba Ossiannilsson
Professor, Dr. Sweden

3. BIO
Professor, Dr. is a Consultant, Expert, Influencer and Quality
Assessor in the field of open, flexible, online, and distance
learning, is an advocate and promotes and improves open and
online learning in the context of SDG4, and Futures of education.
She is on the Executive Committee both for ICDE and EDEN. She
works as an international quality assessor for EADTU and ICDE.
Ossiannilsson chairs the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee. She
has even several other missions for ICDE, as ICDE Quality
Network, and she was research director for the Global Overview
of Quality Models Study 2014/15, and on Blended Learning 2017.
Ossiannilsson received the title EDEN Fellow 2014, the EDEN
Council of Fellows 2018, the Open Education Europa Fellow
2015, and ICDE Ambassador for the global advocacy of OER
2017. Ossiannilsson has nearly 20 years of experience in her
field. Ossiannilsson works in addition with the European
Commission, and ITCILO. She works with ICoBC (International
Council on Badges and Credentials). She is a member of the Ed
Board for several scientific journals and regularly invited as a
keynote speaker at conferences. Her publications comprises over
200+ At the national level she is Vice President in the Swedish
Association for Distance Education (SADE) and National
Organization for e- Competence (REK).

4. AGENDA
• The OER movement and its
relations/benefits to English Language
Teaching
• Social Justice and Human Rights
• SDG
• OPEN Movement
• What is paid by taxmoney, should go back
to taxpayers
• OER Recommendation
• CC and 5 or 6 R
• OER Dynamic Coalition
• Resources
• Q&A Dialog

10. OER TIMELINE
Wikieducator OER
TIMELINE
• 2002 The term coined
UNESCO conf Paris
• 2007 First Public
Declaration: Cape
Town Declaration
• 2012 UNESCO Paris
Declaration
• Cape Town Declaration
10+
• 2017 Ljubjana
Declaration and
Ministerial Statement
• 2019 UN UNESCO
Recommendation

13. + 6 R
RECOGNITION

17. The UNESCO OER
Recommendation is
the only existing
international
standard-setting
instrument on OER
and is the fruit of over
a decade of efforts to
bring together a wide
diversity of
stakeholders.

18. I. DEFINITION AND SCOPE
1. Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and
medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open
license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.
2. Open license refers to a license that respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and
provides permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute
educational materials.
3. Information and communications technology (ICT) provide great potential for effective, equitable
and inclusive access to OER and their use, adaptation and redistribution. They can open possibilities for OER
to be accessible anytime and anywhere for everyone, including individuals with disabilities and individuals
coming from marginalized or disadvantaged groups. They can help meet the needs of individual learners and
effectively promote gender equality and incentivize innovative pedagogical, didactical and methodological
approaches.
4. Stakeholders in the formal, non-formal and informal sectors (where appropriate) in this
Recommendation include: teachers, educators, learners, governmental bodies, parents, educational
providers and institutions, education support personnel, teacher trainers, educational policy makers, cultural
institutions (such as libraries, archives and museums) and their users, information and communications
technology (ICT) infrastructure providers, researchers, research institutions, civil society organizations
(including professional and student associations), publishers, the public and private sectors, intergovernmental
organizations, copyright holders and authors, media and broadcasting groups and funding bodies.

20. UN UNESCO OER Recommendations,
the Way Forward for Member Countries
MONITORING
(a) deploying appropriate research mechanisms
to measure the effectiveness and efficiency
of OER policies and incentives against
defined objectives;
(b) collecting and disseminating progress, good
practices, innovations and research reports
on OER and its implications with the support
of UNESCO and international open
education communities; and
(c) developing strategies to monitor the
educational effectiveness and long-term
financial efficiency of OER, which include
participation of all relevant stakeholders.
Such strategies could focus on improving
learning processes and strengthening the
connections between findings, decision-
making, transparency, and accountability to
inclusive and equitable quality education and
research.

21. From now on everything on
OER/OEP/OEC have to be
related to the UNESCO
OER Recommendation
and monitoring and
evaluation

36. My Footprints
www.i4quality.se
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.
com
info@i4quality.se
THANK YOU!
CARING IS SHARING, SHARING IS CARING