Swedish teachers participated in an 8-week online course about open educational resources (OER) from March to August 2015. The course, called "Going Open Sweden," engaged 39 teachers across Sweden and was built around Wiley's 5 R's of openness - retain, reuse, redistribute, revise and remix. Some teachers created and shared their own OER on topics like book trailers and intercultural communication. While a few teachers regularly share OER, most do not due to lack of time or uncertainty about the quality of their work. The course was an eye-opening experience for participants about the possibilities of OER and getting over barriers to sharing educational resources openly.

1. Swedish teachers participating
in collegial collaboration about
OER
Linda Bradley
University of Gothenburg
Sweden
Open Education: promoting diversity for European Languages,
26-27 September, 2016, Brussels
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2. The online course Going Open Sweden
• 8 weeks March-May, 2015 & During summer June- August, 2015
• 39 teachers from all over Sweden
An active environment, with great teacher engagement

3. Built on the 5 R’s of openness
Built around 4 modules based on Wiley’s 5 R’s of openness
1.Introduction
2.Retain and reuse (What is good quality in web resources, Exploring
OER sites
3.Redistribute (how to attribute materials, open licences)
4.Revise and remix (creating multimodal content)
–Variation in course content: Videos, articles, quizzes etc

4. Teacher OER from Going Open
Working with book trailers
Working with intercultural communication

5. Sharing OER with others
6 teachers were interviewed about their sharing habits
Frequency in posting
Now and then, not on a regular basis
Reasons for posting
To fill gaps that were missing, getting appreciation, an opportunity for response, getting
more colleagues
Reasoning about why few teachers post OER
Lack of time, other priorities, uncertain about the quality in their own work, afraid of being
critiqued

6. Reflections from teachers from Going Open
• Eye-opener to the wealth of possibilities
• Getting over the threshold of sharing
• An eye-opener to openness

7. Reflections from teachers from Going Open
• Eye-opener to the wealth of possibilities
• Getting over the threshold of sharing
• An eye-opener to openness