Keynote Address – “Teachers as Dreamers: Open Educational Resource (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in Mathematics Education” delivered at the Symposium on Mathematics Education in the Secondary Education: Past, Present and Future held 23 March, 2017, organized by the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka

1. Teachers as Dreamers:
Open Educational Resources &
Open Educational Practices
Shironica P. Karunanayaka
Professor in Educational Technology
Faculty of Education
The Open University of Sri Lanka
<spkar@ou.ac.lk> CC BY-SA
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2. Teachers as Dreamers…
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Most new teachers venture into the teaching profession
with dreams of becoming ‘good’ teachers
- Bringing in innovative ideas
- Using, creating new resources
- Trying out new methods
How to help teachers realize their dreams..?
- Empowering them to achieve their dreams to become
great teachers
- Making a change in the lives of their learners

3. ‘Opening up’ Educational Practices
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through
dimensions of
Open Access
Open Learning
Open Teaching
Open Technologies
Open Source Software
Open Text Books
Open Data
Open Access Journals
Open Scholarship
Open Courses
Open Badges
Open Educational Resources

4. EDUCATION IS ABOUT SHARING…
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Creative Commons photo by Lobkovs

5. OER enables
extremely
efficient
&
affordable
sharing
of educational
resources…
 Freely
 Openly
 Equitably
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6. Open Educational Resources (OER) are;
teaching, learning and research materials
in any medium, digital or otherwise, that
reside in the public domain or have been
released under an open license that
permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and
redistribution by others with no or limited
restrictions.
(UNESCO, 2002)
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8. Cape Town Open Education
Declaration, 2007
OER should be;
- Freely shared through open licenses which facilitate
use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing
by anyone;
- Published in formats that facilitate both use and
editing, and that accommodate a diversity of
technical platforms;
- Whenever possible, be available in formats that are
accessible to people with disabilities and people who
do not yet have access to the Internet.
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9. Paris OER Declaration, 2012
Recommends States to foster awareness and promote
use of OER, in order to facilitate several advantages
including;
- reduce barriers and widening access to education at
all levels
- improve cost efficiency in teaching and learning
- encourage teachers to produce and share high quality
educational resources, and
- enhance quality of teaching and learning.

10. (Wiley, 2014)
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11. Open Licensing
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12. Creative
Commons
License
Spectrum
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https://creativecommons.org/

13. OER
23 March 2017Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Keynote-Symposium on Mathematics Education-MoE
Empowers teachers
and learners to
become more
creative and
innovative in their
educational
practices…
OEP

14. Open Educational Practices (OEP)
 Support the (re)use and production
of OER through institutional policies,
 Promote innovative pedagogical
models, and
 Respect and empower learners as
co-producers on their lifelong
learning path…
(Ehlers, 2011)

15. Opening Up…
Access
OER
Practices
OEP

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Global OER Initiatives

17. OPEN TEXTBOOKS
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18. TEACHING RESOURCES
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19. INTERACTIVE GAMES
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20. VIDEOS
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21. MULTIMEDIA
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22. TEACHING IDEAS
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23. ONLINE COURSES
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24. ONLINE COURSES
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25. TEACHER EDUCATION
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26. TEACHER GUIDES
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27. Teachers’ Stories
of OER Integration
in Teaching &
Learning – OUSL
Research Project
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http://www.ou.ac.lk/home/images/OUSL/
publications/Dreamweaving%20Open%20
Educational%20Practices.pdf
CC BY-SA

28. http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/2360 http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/2386
Provincial OER Policy for School Education

29. "The future is open" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0

30. 23 March 2017Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Keynote-Symposium on Mathematics Education-MoE
Creator attribution: Nick Youngson