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How can OER enhance the position of less used languages on a global scale?
1. How can OER enhance the position of
less used languages on a global scale?
Workshop
The OCW Consortium global conference, Ljubljana 25 April 2014
Gard Titlestad
Secretary General
International Council For Open and Distance Education, ICDE
2. • The leading global membership organization for open, distance and online
education
• An NGO official partner of UNESCO, and shares that agency’s key aim – the
attainment of quality education for all
• ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right, the needs of the
learner must be central.
• Members in all regions of the world
25 Years Support
From Norway
3. Carl Holmberg
Senior Advisor -
IDEAL Project
holmberg@icde.org
Øystein Johannessen
Senior Advisor -
LangOER Project
johannessen@icde.org
Inés Gil-Jaurena
Editor - Open Praxis
editor@openpraxis.org
On distance
Part-time
4. Members
• 150 institutional
members
– All parts of the world
– All type of higher ed.
institutions
– Most of the mega-
universities (>100.000
students)
– Incl. some governmental
agencies
• 16 regional and national
associations
• 40 individual members
5. Strategic Objectives
The ICDE Strategic Plan 2013 - 2016
1. To promot the importance of open, distance, flexible
and online education, including e-learning in educational
policy.
2. To encourage quality in open, distance, flexible and
online education, including e-learning.
3. To support the development of new methodologies
and technologies.
4. To facilitate cooperation and networking among
members.
5. To strengthen ICDE membership and governance, and
engage members in collaborative activity and
organizational development.
7. Academic track
Policy – governmental track
Blended learning track
North – South – South track
8. THEME OF THE ICDE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2014:
Connecting the World through Open,
Distance and e-Learning
9. ICDE and OER
• Partnership on OER with UNESCO
• ICDE Chairs on OER – global network
– Fred Mulder, Rory McGreal, Wayne MacIntosh
– + 2 more soon
• Partnership on open education with OCWC (ex. Open
Praxis at this conference), European Commission and
others
• Prepares global monitoring together with partners
• BERTA: Bringing Educational Resources to Teachers in
Africa (OER as OCW - online)
• Participate in concrete projects
10. How can less used languages, including Regional and Minority
languages, benefit from Open Educational Practices (OEP)? How can
Open Educational Resources (OER) be shaped to foster linguistic and
cultural diversity in Europe? What policies are favorable to the uptake
of quality OER in less used language communities?
3-year network (January 2014- December 2016) supported by action KA2
Languages of the Lifelong Learning Programme, European Commission
11. Tentative title: ”Challenges and
opportunities for less used languages.
A global and European perspective.
Recommendations for governments
and educational institutions”
Workshop1
Ljubljana
and Oslo
Draft policy
paper
Workshop2
in Oslo
Public
policy
paper
April 2014 June October January 2015
12. Participants next WS
28 April in Oslo:
• Tora Aasland, President, Norwegian National
Commission for UNESCO; Former Minister of
Research and Higher Education, Norway
• Mansoor Al Anwar, Chancellor, Hamdan Bin
Mohammed Smart University, United Arab Emirates
• Tian Belawati, Rector, The Indonesian Open
University
• June M. Breivik, Development Manager e-learning,
The Norwegian Business School BI; member of the
Norwegian Government MOOC Commission
• Abel Caine, Programme Specialist for Open
Educational Resources, UNESCO
• Marianne Granfelt, Secretary General, The
Association of Swedish Higher Education
• Christian Hjort Lund, Basidia, Denmark
• Tore Hoel, Senior Advisor, Oslo and Akershus
University College of Applied Sciences, Norway;
Coordinator, Nordic OER network
• Øivind Høines, Norwegian Digital Learning Arena -
Open Educational Resources For Secondary Schools
• Maxim Jean-Louis, President - Chief Executive Officer,
Contact North - Ontario’s Distance Education &
Training Network, Canada
• Wayne Mackintosh, UNESCO/ COL/ ICDE Chair in OER;
The Open Education Resource Foundation – the Open
Educational Resource university (OERu)
• Mandla S. Makhanya, Principal and Vice Chancellor,
The University of South Africa; Deputy Chair, the
South African National Commission for UNESCO
• Marta Mena, Director of Virtual Training Program,
National Technological University, Argentina
• Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen, Director General, The
Language Council of Norway
• Anne-Mette Persdotter, The Nordic Council
Secretariat
• Ebba Ossiannilsson, Lund University, Sweden
• Alan Tait, Director, International Development and
Teacher Education, The Open University, UK
• Gard Titlestad, Secretary General, ICDE
• Lars Utstøl & Gunnar Wettergren, U Nordic
• Sylvi Vigmo, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies,
Department of Education, Communication and
Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Leader
of in-depth investigation of OER in 17 less used
European languages, LangOER network
• Yang Zhijian, President, The Open University of China;
former Deputy Director-General, Higher Education
Department, Ministry of Education of China
13. ”For the first time in human history we
have the tools to enable everyone to
attain all the education they desire.”
(Wiley, Green, & Soares, 2012)
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with
OER: How open education resources unlock the door
to free learning.
Vision for OER
14. Expectations to OER
“OERs have the potential to solve
the global education crisis and
contribute to sustainable economic
growth”
Sir John Daniel, former CEO for Commonwealth
of Learning and David Killion, US ambassador to
UNESCO said in Guardian in July 2012
15. And……reality
• “Concerning OER open for adaptation and
innovation regarding less use languages, the
emerging landscape seems rather static and
OER are scarce.”
– Sylvi Vigmo, Director of Studies, Department of
Education, Communication and Learning,
University of Gothenburg – findings to be
presented 28 April 2014.
16. Definition
• Less used languages are languages such as
Norwegian, Swedish, Slovenian, Xhosa and
Zulu which find themselves needing to
contend with a fast evolving educational
landscape currently dominated by English.
Less used languages also include regional and
minority languages.
17. Internet and languages
• “Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken
today, some 2,500 are generally considered
endangered. Here we argue that this
consensus figure vastly underestimates the
danger of digital language death, in that less
than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the
digital realm. We present evidence of a
massive die-off caused by the digital divide.”
Kornai A (2013), “Digital Language Death”:
http://eprints.sztaki.hu/7564/1/Kornai_1_2441287_ny.pdf
18. Size does not
(necessarily) matter!
• The example of Piedmontese, still spoken by
some 2–3 m people in the Torino region
• And Faroese, with less than 50 k speakers, but
with a high quality Wikipedia
Kornai A (2013), “Digital Language Death”:
http://eprints.sztaki.hu/7564/1/Kornai_1_2441287_ny.pdf
19. Content languages for websites
as of 12 March 2014
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
20. Internet users by language
2011
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
23. The same picture….
The same picture is provided by the OER Policy
Registry, which shows an overwhelming over-
representation in policies from the US and UK
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry
24. What are the
consequences?
• What are the consequeces for education if the
OER-base in less used languages is relative
weak?
• And consequecnces for languages?
• Other consequences? (E.g. for innovation
etc.)
25. Preliminary:
Main findings
1. Lacking common ground – interpretation to open
2. Creative Commons (CC) and Open Licensing (OL) –
less explicit
3. OER linked to ”open” and ”accessible”
4. Engagement from grass-root level to Ministries and
Agencies of Education – but few national incentives
5. Restricted innovative scope of OER and language
use
Ref: Sylvi Vigmo, Gothenbourg University, WP2-leader
26. Questions
• What are your observations regarding OER
and less used languages?
• Which issues would you suggest arise from
those obeservations?
• Any suggsestions for future policy
recommendations?