This document discusses exploiting open educational resources (OER) for professional development. It defines OER as teaching, learning, and research materials that can be freely accessed, used, adapted, and redistributed with few or no restrictions. The 2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan provides recommendations in five areas to support wider adoption of OER, including building user capacity and ensuring inclusive access. The document also reviews UN frameworks supporting education rights and OER, and lists ways that OER can enhance professional development, such as inspiring innovation, expanding learning networks, and strengthening abilities like collaboration. However, it notes challenges like lack of awareness, incentives, time and issues around quality and mindsets.

1. How to exploit OER
as digital resource for
professional
development
Dr. Ebba.Ossiannilsson, EDEN EC, EDEN Fellow, Open Education
Europa Fellow, ICDE OER Ambassador
@EbbaOssian
VET & companies. Professional Development in Digital Age
International conference "Open Professional Collaboration for
Open Classroom"
Kaunas, LT, 10th November, 2017
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2. What is OER
• OER refer to any teaching, learning and
research materials that reside in the
public domain or have been released
under an open license that permits no-
cost access, use, adaptation and
redistribution with no or limited
restrictions. While offering education
systems a greater flexibility to use, share
and adapt quality resources, OER rest
within the framework of intellectual
property rights and fully acknowledge
authorship.
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3. The 2017 Ljubljana OER Action Plan
provides recommendations to
stakeholders in five strategic areas
• building the capacity of users to find, re-
use, create and share OER
• language and cultural issues
• ensuring inclusive and equitable access to
quality OER
• developing sustainability models, and
• developing supportive policy
environments
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4. Recall the following UN Frameworks
(Ministerial Statements)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which
states that all people have rights and fundamental
freedoms that include the right to receive and
impart information and ideas through any media
and regardless of frontiers (Article 19), as well as
the right to education (Article 26).
• The 2003 UNESCO Recommendation concerning
the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and
Universal Access to Cyberspace.
• The 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection
and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
Expression
• The 2006 Convention on the Rights of People with
Disabilities (Article 24), which recognizes the rights
of persons with disabilities to education.
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5. OER Training and Professional
Development (ISKME)
• Explore new resources and ideas that inspire
innovation in their work
• Collaborate with a diverse global community to
expand their learning networks
• Model and practice teaching strategies that
combine design thinking, project and challenge
based learning, and the OER process of finding,
evaluating, aligning, remixing, creating, and
sharing freely available learning resources
• Strengthen abilities as researchers, designers,
learners, collaborators, leaders, and authors
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6. Professional development
• Awareness
• Incentives
• Too many resources
• No time
• Micro -and mobile learning
• Mindset (the textbook is the course)
• Promotion
• Collaboration, teamwork
• Quality related issues
• Capacity building
• Research
• Culture
• And more…
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MY FOOTPRINTS
CARING IS SHARING
SHARING IS CARING
International conference "Open Professional
Collaboration for Open Classroom"
November 9-10, 2017