Presentation at the OEW2019, 6 March 2019. OER and the SDG4 for access, equity, equality, inclusiveness, quality, and lifelong learning

1. Professor, Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson
ICDE Advocacy Committee
Chair, and Ambassador for the global advocacy of OER
OER and the SDG4 for access, equity, equality, inclusiveness,
quality and lifelong learning

2. Professor, Dr.
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Sweden
• Swedish Association for Distance
Education
• ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, and
ICDE Quality Network, Europe
• ICDE Quality Network
• ISO Future Concepts
• EDEN EC, Fellow Council, SIG TEL QE
• Open Education Europa Ambassador
and Fellow

4. Global Challenges

7. Frost &
Sullivan

8. The fourth Industrial
Revolution requires
the social revolution
as well:
EMOTIONAL
COLLABORATIVE
EMPHATIC
IDENTITY
JUST FOR ME JUST
IN TIME
PERSONAL

9. UN
UNESCO SDG

10. UNESCO Definition OER
Open Educational Resources (OER) are
teaching, learning and research materials in
any medium – digital or otherwise – that
reside in the public domain or have been
released under an open license that permits
no-cost access, use, adaptation and
redistribution by others with no or limited
restrictions

14. UNESCO 2017
…to reinforce international
collaboration in the field of
Open Educational Resources
(OER)” and that “a
recommendation could be
an essential tool to
strengthen the
implementation of national
and international legislation,
policies and strategies in this
field, as well as to enhance
international cooperation on
the use of Open Educational
Resources (OER) in support
of Sustainable Development
Goal 4 ‘Education

15. The Recommendation conclude three main
standpoints
• 1. Based on the present study, it is clear that a Recommendation on
International Collaboration on Open Educational Resources is both
desirable and feasible. Such a new UNESCO normative instrument is
desirable because education is diversifying rapidly in all parts of the world
while at the same time the usage, creation, and availability of Open
Educational Resources have become global as well as regional.
• 2. The advantage of a Recommendation is that it is flexible and meant to
allow for contextualization. However, a framework for Open Educational
Resources delivery for international cooperation towards further and
extended capacity building is missing and a Recommendation should build
on decades of work in developing and implementing Open Educational
Resources related policies and actions.
• 3. It will rely on tools developed over the years that have helped to deliver
Open Educational Resources criteria and procedures. The events,
documents, and surveys conducted presented in this study clearly
demonstrated that a majority of those most familiar with Open
Educational Resources firmly support the move to a standard-setting

17. ICDE OER
Advocacy
Committee
• Ebba Ossiannilsson, Consultant and VP, Swedish Association of Distance
Education (SADE), Sweden
• Paul Bardack, the Chair Emeritus of the United States Distance Learning
Association
• Mark Brown, Office of the Vice President, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Cable Green, Lead OER, Creative Commons, USA
• Other Advocacy Committee members:
• Cengiz Hakan Aydin, Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey
• Paul Bacsich, Professor of Practice, University of West Indies Open Campus,
Barbados
• Chandra Shekhar Dubey, Director, Campus of Open Learning, Dehli
University, India
• James Glapa-Glossklag, Dean and Treasurer of the Board, College of the
Canyons and Open Education Consortium, USA
• Dhaneswar Harichandan, Director, Institute of Distance and Open Learning,
University of Mumbai, India
• Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC-Irvine California, USA
• Jean-Marc Meunier, President and VP, FIED and University of Paris VIII
Vincennes – St-Denis, France
• Valerie Peachey, Professor in Open Education, Charles Sturt University,
Australia
• Xiangyang Zhang, Open University of Jiangsu, China

19. •Advocacy is on OER.
•Applications for a membership in the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee can be made by an
expert ICDE member that has a record and capacity to contribute to significant advocacy for
OER.
•Members are appointed as ICDE OER Ambassadors by the ICDE Executive Committee.
•When appropriate, members of the committee should seek collaboration with OER Chairs
and relevant stakeholders to achieve synergy in OER advocacy.
•The ICDE OER Ambassador is not a funded position, but awarding it provides extra profile to
the holder, expressing ICDE’s interest in his/her voice on OER, underlining his/her reputation.
•ICDE OER Ambassadors are bound to establish a network among themselves in which they
and their teams collaborate, and to which experts in the subject area from other institutions may
be admitted.
•ICDE OER Ambassadors are expected to jointly and individually plan OER advocacy
actions.
•When invited and if possible, Ambassadors should be prepared to play a role at e.g. ICDE
World Conferences, Leadership Summits, Regional Conferences, Expert Seminars or
other events relevant for the purpose.
•The Chair for the ICDE OAC suggests its activities and progress in collaboration with the
ICDE Secretariat. The ICDE OER Ambassadors have an independent position and will inform
ICDE of their activities through a light-version annual report.

22. UNESCO OER Recommendations (2018)
OECL2018
OEB2018
ICDE Lillehammer 2019
OEW2019
ICDE World Conference Dublin 2019
National and regional events
ROADMAP and Action Plan
Guidelines micro, meso and macrolevel

23. Blog posts
Symposium and presentation from the OER Advocacy at ÌCDE LLLS2019,
Lillehammer, Norway
OER Advocacy Committee at the Lifelong Learning Summit in Lillehammer,
Norway 11-13 February 2019 (5 February 7, 2019)
Roadmaps for Open Education Leadership at the OEB18, Berlin, Germany
(December 12, 2019)
UPDATE: From the Chair, ICDE Open Educational Resources Advocacy
Committee (OERAC) (October 31, 2019)
OER Advocacy – Some Reflections (November 3, 2017)
Obituary
Fred Mulder, former Rector Magnificus Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL)
(October, 2018)

24. The network of ICDE Chairs in Open Educational Resources (OER) currently consists of 8
distinguished and internationally recognized academics in the field of OER
• Prof. Martin Weller, The Open University, UK
• Dr. María Soledad Ramírez Montoya, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México
• Dr. Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada, who is a UNESCO-COL
Chair in OER
• Dr. Wayne Mackintosh, Open Education Resource Foundation and
Otago Polytechnic, who is a UNESCO-COL Chair in OER
• Dr. Daniel Burgos, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), Spain
• Dr. Tolly S.A. Mbwette, Pan-African University Council, Tanzania
• Dr. Christian M. Stracke from the Open University of Netherlands
• Dr. Jane-Frances Obiageli Agbu from the National Open University of
Nigeria

25. Aims
• Lead high impact events that give profile to
ICDE.
• Help shape proposals for new related
projects aimed at attracting funding.
• Demonstrate thought leadership through
publications, videos and teaching
by highlighting the link to ICDE and their
position as ICDE Chairs in OER.
• Provide ICDE with advice on policy and
other areas.

27. Can OER, and OEP contribute to the achievement of the
SDG4 on access, equity, equality, quality, inclusiveness,
and empowering lifelong learning?
In case how?
What actions should be done?

29. CARING IS SHARING,
SHARING IS CARING
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