Presentation at OGP Regional Meeting 2016, May 5/6, Cape Town South Africa: Open Education and opportunities for sustainable education in Africa, advocating of and for the inclusion of Open Education and OER in African regional National Action Plans (NAPs) which are being developed within member nations, geared to meet global Sustainable Development Goals.
The National Consortium of Education Foundations presents 5 Emerging trends for consideration in innovative programs in support of K12 schools and school districts.
The National Consortium of Education Foundations presents 5 Emerging trends for consideration in innovative programs in support of K12 schools and school districts.
Incorporating video into international recruitment nafsa18 - linked inMarty Bennett
Learn how to incorporate video technology into institutional student recruitment strategies to reach student audiences where they live. This session presents tips, successes, and best practices in creating video marketing materials, hosting live video sessions, and establishing effective synergy between educational institutions and overseas partners.
This presentation addresses student technology ownership patterns and preferences, hybrid learning models, as well as innovations/developments in microlearning, collaborative learning, and microcredentialing.
Using Novels in the Social Studies classroomCody Lawson
This presentation was shared with a district wide teacher in-service on how to effectively use novels in the social studies classroom. Participants of the session included middle and high school level teachers.
Doing better things: transforming how we use Turnitin for learningJisc
Students have an increasing expectation for academic interactions via the same all-pervasive technologies they use socially. How to marry this need for digital engagement with the rigours and expectations of the assessment process is a challenge faced by many institutions.
Beyond being a mechanism for managing academic misconduct Turnitin, via Feedback Studio is increasingly being adopted by institutions as a tool for Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) in order to address this challenge.
Learn how technology is engaging and empowering students in the assessment process through innovative approaches to providing constructive and timely feedback beyond a tick or a cross.
Christine Bauer-Ramazani focuses on alternative means of assessment using technology to monitor and evaluate student learning outcomes in project- and content-based learning environments. Examples are given.
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within t...Leigh-Anne Perryman
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth
Paper presented by Leigh-Anne Perryman and John Lesperance at OE Global 2015, Banff, Canada.
OER Workshop for Coastline College Summer InstituteUna Daly
The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
Project: Global Inform is an in-school project where students actually "do" something about human rights violations. Students form groups to create Awareness Campaigns for a violation they most strongly disagree with. This project was designed with and for students.
Open Education: What does it mean to you, to us and to Africa?
A presentation on open education and the work that Siyavula is doing in South Africa for the Wiki Indaba conference, 20-22 June 2014.
Wiki Indaba is a gathering of African Wikimedians and other open knowledge volunteers who are aligned to the Wikimedia Foundation mission. This is the first regional conference to be held by and for African chapters in Africa, the region of the world with the lowest Wikipedia coverage.
I am excited to be a part of the conference and connect with others around Africa promoting access to knowledge and gowing the open movement in our continent.
Bringing Educational Resources For Teachers in Africa - BERTAicdeslides
MOOCs4D, Quality online education, quality in education, OER and teacher education, train the teachers trainers, ICDE, International Council for Open and Distance Education
Incorporating video into international recruitment nafsa18 - linked inMarty Bennett
Learn how to incorporate video technology into institutional student recruitment strategies to reach student audiences where they live. This session presents tips, successes, and best practices in creating video marketing materials, hosting live video sessions, and establishing effective synergy between educational institutions and overseas partners.
This presentation addresses student technology ownership patterns and preferences, hybrid learning models, as well as innovations/developments in microlearning, collaborative learning, and microcredentialing.
Using Novels in the Social Studies classroomCody Lawson
This presentation was shared with a district wide teacher in-service on how to effectively use novels in the social studies classroom. Participants of the session included middle and high school level teachers.
Doing better things: transforming how we use Turnitin for learningJisc
Students have an increasing expectation for academic interactions via the same all-pervasive technologies they use socially. How to marry this need for digital engagement with the rigours and expectations of the assessment process is a challenge faced by many institutions.
Beyond being a mechanism for managing academic misconduct Turnitin, via Feedback Studio is increasingly being adopted by institutions as a tool for Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) in order to address this challenge.
Learn how technology is engaging and empowering students in the assessment process through innovative approaches to providing constructive and timely feedback beyond a tick or a cross.
Christine Bauer-Ramazani focuses on alternative means of assessment using technology to monitor and evaluate student learning outcomes in project- and content-based learning environments. Examples are given.
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within t...Leigh-Anne Perryman
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth
Paper presented by Leigh-Anne Perryman and John Lesperance at OE Global 2015, Banff, Canada.
OER Workshop for Coastline College Summer InstituteUna Daly
The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
Project: Global Inform is an in-school project where students actually "do" something about human rights violations. Students form groups to create Awareness Campaigns for a violation they most strongly disagree with. This project was designed with and for students.
Open Education: What does it mean to you, to us and to Africa?
A presentation on open education and the work that Siyavula is doing in South Africa for the Wiki Indaba conference, 20-22 June 2014.
Wiki Indaba is a gathering of African Wikimedians and other open knowledge volunteers who are aligned to the Wikimedia Foundation mission. This is the first regional conference to be held by and for African chapters in Africa, the region of the world with the lowest Wikipedia coverage.
I am excited to be a part of the conference and connect with others around Africa promoting access to knowledge and gowing the open movement in our continent.
Bringing Educational Resources For Teachers in Africa - BERTAicdeslides
MOOCs4D, Quality online education, quality in education, OER and teacher education, train the teachers trainers, ICDE, International Council for Open and Distance Education
Factors in the adoption of Open Educational Resourcesisidromj
Cultural and organizational factors that facilitate the incorporation of open educational practices and open educational resources in universities of the MENA region
Policy perspectives on Open Educational Resourcesicdeslides
Policy perspectives on Open Educational Resources:
The world has got a new educational policy – a global shift. The Incheon Declaration. The Qingdao Declaration. Two major Global Challenges for Higher Education towards 2030: average education and economic growth, enrolment in higher education. Drivers for Opening up for Knowledge: Open, Technology, Costs, Demographics and Learners.
Policy for Less used Languages - a policy brief for governments.
What about Norden?
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Examples of successful Open Education strategies in Higher EducationFabio Nascimbeni
The presentation introduces some successful strategies of universities that have opened up their offer, together with some reflections on how this could be done in the Mediterranean region.
The big gaps in education, the trends in online, open and flexible education and the drivers for open creates the background for benchmarking the Nordic countries towards the globe. Competitiveness and innovation, Human capital, Network and technology readiness are benchmarks. So what: What are key concept to approach to go digital? Online, Open and Analytics are game changers - but not without leadership for change.
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within to open up education.
• Governments must take firm decision on holistic policies for open and distance education.
• Stakeholders should team up meeting the two grand challenges through open education and technology enhanced learning.
ENCORE+: Your Place in the Open EcosystemRobert Farrow
The objective of this workshop is to give the participants an opportunity to imagine and recreate their work and business as Open. The workshop is focused on Open Educational Resources (OER), and on its applicability and benefit to business, innovation and technology in lifelong learning.
This workshop is designed to take the participants through a simulation experience, where each participant will imagine the business potential, innovation potential and technological changes available and possible for their work to be open (more open).
The workshop is facilitated by the European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+). ENCORE+ is a European Commission funded project, aimed at establishing a European OER Ecosystem, for both academia and business.
The participants will be presented with research and findings from the project, directly linked to enabling their work to be open, profitable and innovative. Representatives from ENCORE+ business partners will showcase real-life examples of how OER is integral to their work and business as part of the introduction to the workshop.
The workshop is suited to all participants who are interested in OER, regardless of knowledge and experience with OER. The workshop is interactive, with practical simulation tasks guided by ENCORE+ facilitators and ENCORE+ OER research.
Promoting public policies and multinational organizations for distance educat...icdeslides
Theme
The theme chosen for the Conference is “Mobilizing Distance Education for Social Justice and Innovation”, that is to say, contributing to mobilize Distance Education in its many modalities and forms, to build and transfer knowledge aimed at achieving valuable goals for societies that defend innovation and social justice.
The conference thus addresses one of the current priorities of international bodies such as the UNESCO’s “Education for All”, the OEI’s “Educational Goals XXI” and the European Union’s “Horizon Program 2020”, all of them geared to innovating to achieve intelligent, safe and inclusive societies.
Pathways to Learning: International Collaboration Under Covid-19Robert Farrow
The Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER) (UNESCO) emphasizes in its key aims the importance of (i) “developing the capacity of all key education stakeholders to create, access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt, and redistribute OER, as well as to use and apply open licenses in a manner consistent with national copyright legislation and international obligations” and (ii) “fostering and facilitating international cooperation [by] supporting international cooperation between stakeholders”.
Both these aspects were present in a recent open education research collaboration between The African Council for Distance Education and The Open University (UK). Pathways to Learning: new approaches in higher education (OpenLearn) hosted two free professional development programmes for university lecturers, instructional designers, technical and professional staff, managers, and heads of department who share responsibility for providing quality distance and online learning.
The evaluation of the Pathways to Learning project provides a great touchstone for reflecting on the kinds of agile, open collaboration that can build international capacity for OER projects and the communities that sustain them.
The OpenEdInfluencers project at MandelaUni presents about Open Textbooks. Learn about empowerment of students, advocacy for change in education using OER, and collaboration in doing so.
A collection of online resources to support taking teaching and learning online in education, a collection of Tweets from Open practitioners around the world, curated and detailed by the Open Education Influencers at Nelson Mandela University.
Apologies for the mis-spelt website address on the cover, missing an 'n',
Slideshare doesn't allow document edits, only replacements, which then deletes all prior engagements with it. So we're living with it, with side-eye, of course.
The correct website address is: http://openedinfluencers.mandela.ac.za
Welcome to Nelson Mandela University's New Lecturer Induction 2017, and an introduction to OER and OER for writing from Academic Literacies and Writing.
just some of what we at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's Centre for Teaching, Learning & Media do, please share more images and events, and we can update and more accurately tell our 2015 visual story ...
Try some of the resources available to you when creating your next level career profile, and then start applying with a living CV that represents what you really have to offer any prospective recruiters for jobs, funding, introductions, and more. One of the most popular career development sessions at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's Academic Literacies & Writing unit, offered by Gino Fransman to educators and students.
Part of a series introducing Open and Open Educational Resources as a potentially high impact part of supporting the realisation of intended institutional graduate profiles, as described in Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's Vision2020.
The UNESCO Global Open Graduate Network has been going for over two years now, and seen 4 international PhD seminars across the globe, ranging from Cape Town, to Slovenia, to Washington DC, and in 2015, to Banff, Canada. This album contains participants within the network both present and past, as well as flashes from the 9 UNESCO Chairs in Open Education's visit to the GO_GN seminar 2015, as well as images from various coinciding conferences with the Open Education Consortium and Open Ed.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Open Education: What About Africa? Open Government Partnership Africa 2016
1. Open Education-
What about Africa?
Gino Fransman: GO_GN PhD Researcher
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Glenda Cox: GO_GN PhD Researcher
University of Cape Town
2. Who we are
•Gino Fransman
•Coordinator – Academic Literacies and Writing/ Academic
Development Professional in the Centre for Teaching,
Learning & Media (CTLM) at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University (NMMU)
3. Who we are
•Glenda Cox
•Senior Lecturer, Centre for Innovation in Learning and
Teaching at the University of Cape Town
4. •Stuff about the Network…
•I have some images, of course
http://go-gn.net/
5. ● develop and explore new knowledge in the broad
OER field linked to a variety of disciplines
● provide a solid foundation for the introduction and
implementation of OER innovations
● monitor and evaluate the outcomes of institutional,
national and international OER initiatives
● increase evidence and guidance for OER in practice.
6. Today’s Session
1. The future in context.
2. What about Africa?
3. What is Open Education and Open Educational Resources?
4. Africa - Opening Up Education for Sustainable Development.
5. Recommendations
7.
8. …characterized by a
range of new
technologies that are
fusing the physical,
digital and biological
worlds,
impacting all
disciplines,
economies and
industries, and even
challenging ideas
about what it means
to be human.
9.
10. World Economic Forum 2015
Incheon, Korea
58 million children out of school
781 million adults are illiterate
11. Global challenges in Higher
Education
Increasing demand for
education and
insufficient institutions
Increasing cost of
Higher education and
text books
Increasing Competition
Variable quality in
teaching
Asymmetries of power
and wealth and
curriculum from the
Global North favoured
over the Global south
11
13. The case has been made
before in Africa
…education influences social welfare
through its indirect effects on health, fertility,
and life expectancy and helps to increase the
profitability of other forms of social and physical
investment… (1988 Africa Leadership Forum)
http://www.africaleadership.org/rc/the%20challenge%20of%20education%20in%20africa.pdf
14. The focus for
this session
What are opportunities for
Open Education to challenge
barriers to African education?
Who is doing what?
How can we do more?
20. Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open
Courseware are educational materials which are discoverable
online and openly licensed that can be:
Shared
Shared freely
and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used by
anyone to …… adapt / repurpose/
improve under some
type of license in
order to …
… redistribute
and share
again.
23. In 2015 over 1 billion
works were licenced
under Creative
Commons
24. A collection of exclusive rights, given
to creators and authors to protect
their original works
Definition of copyright
25. •May not reproduce
•Fair use / Fair dealing for classroom
use
•Permission / royalty payments for
reproduction
•May not use on the Internet
All rights reserved
34. Education in Africa
Opening Up Sustainable Development
•Various institutional repositories: African
Virtual University also UWC/ UCT / UNISA
•Projects on Open Textbooks
•OER Africa - organisation
•Creative Commons Africa membership:
SA, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda,Nigeria, Tanzania
and Uganda (New site to be launched soon)
35. Challenges for South Africa
• Crisis in Basic education
• Skills shortage/’persistent human
Capital gap” (Taylor, 2011)
Higher education: high school
graduates of varied ability
Higher education institutions quality
variable
35
36. Open Textbooks for Basic and Secondary education
Across Mathematics and Science subjects
Grades 4-12
high-quality, curriculum-aligned
Open Educational Resources
Launched in 2012: distributed 2.5 m copies
2016 +10,000,000 copies distributed
38. •Educational Technology for Effective
Teaching: A Handbook for Educators
•16 units covering different aspects of educational
technology as a field of study.
•Educational technology is a combined application of three
major sciences for classroom activities.
•Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Managerial Sciences
39. Inter-Governmental Organisations,
International funders
& Open Education
•UNESCO – support for OER in higher education
Paris OER Declaration Slovenia 2017: 5 year review
•Commonwealth of Learning – higher ed focus, distance
learning focus
•European Commission- Policy work
•OECD
OECD OER Catalyst Report
•Hewlett Foundation
•Mellon Foundation
44. What are the barriers to
adoption of OER in Africa?
45. Barriers to OER Adoption
Lack of awareness
Lack of infrastructure
Concerns about relevance of materials
Concerns about copyright
Concerns about quality
Lack of policy
Lack of recognition
Concerns about the financial models
47. Employability and work assessments, more and more require, focus upon
Collaboration
Representation
Group work
Abilities to solve problems in
short-term, fragmented and
problem-based engagements
Diversity/ Global Citizenship:
contract/ project based work
Engagement:
Transliteracy
Graduate Attributes
for the 21st
Century
48. Educate governments about Open Education
Educate teachers about Open Education
Support the creation of OER in Africa
We are keen to engage organisations on practical ways to take this forward
Recommendations
49. Recommendations
•Publishing: Copyright vs Open
•Supporting Open:
• NRF in SA recently included support funding for research into
Open, materials to be shared openly
• UCT staff support grant for research into Open
Elevate the teaching profession – Open Scholarship/
Sharing/ Collaboration
Prioritise access to Open resources
50. Recommendations
•Equitable distribution of opportunities to education
• Policy reformulation or creation?
Funding innovation in education on the continent
Prioritising Open sharing to encourage ‘next-step’ growth
Funding Research/ Engaging user experiences/ Sharing Experiences
• Open policy debates between stakeholders on all levels: shared,
inclusive, intentional
• Opening Up debates in Education for Sustainable Development
The key aspect of an OER is that it is both discoverable online – so that people can find it AND openly licensed - so that people can legally make use of it. OER includes texts, different forms of media, ideas, as well as documented teaching strategies/techniques or practices.
Advocates of openness would suggest that the value in OER is in its potential to support learning in many ways and in many contexts.
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/report/
We work to do this because it’s not always so easy, legal, or scalable when it comes to copyright law, which governs how you can share copies of content both on and offline.
There is a growing problem which you may already be aware of – the fact that copyright law is having trouble keeping up with technological change, especially with a technological advancement called the Internet.
Today more than ever before we can share copies of materials, whether they are textbooks, songs, videos, or emails, with the click of a button. But the law, which was designed before this was possible, says most of this is pretty much illegal unless you ask for express permission each and every time.
One of the key initiatives enabling the legal sharing and re-working of materials has been the development of alternative licensing systems. Previously copyright was binary: All rights retained or public domain. Now alternative licensing options such as the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) and Creative Commons provide a range of options where some rights are reserved.
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/
More than 250 institutions and afflilated organistations
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Poor performance compared to comparator countries eg. 2007 Sample of Grade 6 reading and maths in the bottom half of 15 African countries
In terms of equity _gross inequalities with poorer kids receiving inferior schooling.
Higher Education
Ill prepared first year entrants
Poor throughput rates: low graduation rates ( partially influenced by UNISA the largest institution- rate of 9% in 2008. The total undergraduate rate was at 16% in 2009!
In Africa we have the newly developed OER Africa specifically catering for OER for African Academics
African content for Africans for local context and to share our expertise globally