This presentation discusses achievements in using small languages for open educational practices. It highlights teacher engagement, reuse of resources through localization, and community building through bottom-up and socially sustained open educational resources. The presentation questions how far open educational practices have progressed in content remixing and user engagement. It also discusses the openness of content remixing and different types of mixes that are embraced. Finally, it raises questions about balancing the value of open and non-open educational resources, the role of communities in open educational resource uptake, and embracing new spaces and modes of connectivity.

1. This project was financed with the support of the European Commission. This publication is the sole responsibility of the author and
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“Small” languages –big achievements:
communities engaged in Open Educational Practice
Katerina Zourou, Web2Learn, Greece
LangOER conference, September 26-27, Brussels.

2. Small languages-
achievements in the Open
=> Teacher engagement; re-use; localisation

4. Small languages- achievements in the Open (2)
=> Emphasis on practices; hands-on approach for educators

5. Small languages- achievements in the Open
=> Community building; bottom-up, socially-sustained OER
A user profile at
KlasCement- social
network based and
gamified

6. In OEP, how far have we been with…
-content remix?
-user engagement?
Food for thought:

7. http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix?language=en
What is an original? What is a remix?

8. Alek Tarkowski at webinar "Moving towards Open Educational Practices“, April 21, 2015
https://eu42.spreed.com/c/740774990/spreed/100/recorder?recording=1#ok
Remix

9. Remix (2)
How « open » are we with content remix? What kind of « mix » of
resources (incl.non-OER) are we open to embrace?

10. Greek OER aggregator
Searches among OER and user-generated content (UGC)
Remix (3)

11. https://www.ted.com/participate/translate
Community

12. “Engagement of individuals who voluntarily offer their
knowledge to a knowledge seeker (an organisation, a
company, etc. Howe (2006).
Howe, J. (2006). "The Rise of Crowdsourcing". Wired, 14 (6.)
Community (2)

13. http://amara.org/

14. Community location
Physical?

15. 15
Online?
Community location

16. 16
A user profile on Stack Exchange
Community location

17. Blended?
Community location

18. Community location

19. • Loosing sight of the big picture? =>How to valorize edu
practice using OER and non-OER without downplaying
the value of licensed materials?
– Does the legal framework of OER inhibit users from taking
bottom-up action? When is best time to introduce it?
• Should we approach OER as work in progress and not
polished content off the shelf?
• Should we reconsider the role of communities in OER
uptake?
• Shouldn’t we we embrace new spaces and modes of
connectivity?
Few ideas to discuss?

20. Thank you!
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