The document outlines the Arabic Open Educational Resources (OER) project, which aims to enhance open education in the Arab world, particularly focusing on STEM subjects. Funded by organizations like the US State Department and the Arab League, the project promotes the sharing and translation of educational materials and involves activities such as workshops, translations, and the establishment of repositories. The initiative spans four years, initially raising awareness and translating resources, followed by implementation and evaluation phases.

1. Ismail Mekkaoui Alaoui
Physics Department
Cadi Ayyad University Marrakech
Morocco
ARABIC OER AND OPEN BOOK PROJECT.
Open Education Day
MOROCCO OER STRATEGY FORUM
Cadi Ayyad University, December 6th, 2016

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OER
Open Educational Resources
OER
Open Educational Resources
OCW
Open Courseware
MOOC
Massive Open
Online Course
Open Education
OA
Open Access Publishing
OER is part of the Open Movement (0pen software, open data,
open design, etc,) which emerged in the 20th
century.
OER made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of
MIT's Open Courseware initiative.

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What is Arabic OER ?
It is a group of scientists, experts, and consultants
which was one of the fruits of a:
Sponsored by:
The US State Department, The Arab League, and ALECSO
PROFESSIONAL ON-DEMAND EXCHANGE PROGRAM
PROMOTING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
March 1st
– March 21st
2014
Arranged by:
World Learning Exchange and Training Unit

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Project Open Book4201Arab League,
ALECSO,World LearningProfessional
Fellows On-DemandUS Department of
States.

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Algeria
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Morocco
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Sudan
Tunisia
Yemen
USA
Scientists, Expert /consultants to ALECSO
for the Open Book project from:
In addition to
Mary Lou Forward of The Open Education Consortium
and
Paul Stacey of Creative Commons

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Open Book project targets Arab World
Open Education in the Arab World is still in an initial phase
 The project consists of a web system (Platform) which allows
uploading and downloading of different learning materials by
Instructors and Students.
 Videos, audio lessons, animated learning materials, documents
and presentations will be freely used and shared.
 The platform will be fully localized for Arabic audience and
will cover different curricula for K-12 and undergraduate
students.
The Goal of the Open Book/OER project

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 The focus of the Open Book/OER project for the Arab World
should be on STEM (Sciences Technology Engineering
Maths) subjects.
 The project have 4 years.
 the first two years focused on raising awareness of OER
among faculty and policy makers, translation of existing
OER and production of OER from the Arab World,
 The second two years will focus on building the project and
evaluation of impact.
 Overall goal of the program: Regional production and
dissemination of educational materials in support of STEM
Details of the Open Book/OER project

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1. Awareness-raising Activities
a. Support for faculty workshops and regional conference on
OER to include a training of trainers;
b. Development of guides for both users and developers of OER;
c. Assess what translated OER STEM resources are needed,
and/or already exist across region.
2. Proof of Concept Activities
a. Translation of 8 courses into Arabic (selection of courses to be
determined);
b. Encourage Contributions of OER from faculty at universities
across the region
c. Establish repositories where OER will be stored.
Recommended activities for the first two years.

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1. Continuation of awareness-raising activities as needed;
1.Additional translations of OER into Arabic, exploration of a
crowd-sourced translation model;
2.Broadening OER contributions of faculty from the region;
3.Encouraging policy development at national levels;
4.Co-develop curricula/courses among faculty from universities in
the region, to be released as OER;
5.Link regional OER repositories into an overall portal for the
whole MENA region
6.Impact studies based on success criteria defined during the first
two years.
Recommended activities for years 3 and 4 include:

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Open Education Resources (OER) MENA
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/OER-MENA-8207810/about
http://www.alecso.org/open_book_project/
For more Information

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- Arab Forum for Scientific Research and Sustainable Development,
Sharjah, UAE. December 2014
- UNESCO-ALECSO Inception Meeting on ‘ICT CFT:
Contextualization Harnessing OER’ 17 -18 August, 2015 Tunis,
Tunisia
Activities and Meetings
- Arab Forum for Scientific Research and Sustainable Development,
Cairo, Egypt. 16-18 December 2016
- Awareness-raising activities in many MENA Universities
- Translations of a book Genetics into Arabic
- UNESCO Chair- Arabic OER Univ of Sousse, Tunisia

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