Presentation given by Alastair Creelman (@alacre, Linnaeus University, Sweden) at 12th Educational Repositories Network (EdReNe) Seminar in Denmark, 20-21 October 2015

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Open educational practices, a tool for
empowerment.
Alastair Creelman
@alacre
Linnaeus University, Sweden

2. 55 million people in EU speak languages that
are not official EU languages
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3. Photo CC BY-NC-SA Some rights reserved by rageforst
OER sustainability
Open licenses (Creative
Commons)
Plan for sharing, reuse
and adaptation
Easy to edit and subtitle

4. Metadata
• Information
• Quality
assurance/rating
• Links to other
resources
• Facilitate
discoverability
• Example from
Sophia.org

5. Translation – a community approach
• Google Translator Toolkit
• YouTube translation
• TED Open translation
project
• Khan Academy translation
• Amara subtitle editor
• More detailed presentation:
Open Educational Practices
in small languages: the role
of community engagement
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6. Open courses
• Open course platforms to
enable smaller languages to
exploit MOOC movement
• Commonwealth of learning
MOOC4D
• Apps for language learning,
Memrise
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7. Smaller languages on Wikipedia
• Digital activism
• Visibility
• Credibility
• Empowerment
• Enthusiasts first, then community
• Uniting speakers around the world
• Example – minority languages in Russia
Images: CC BY-SA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons

8. Wikipedia communities
Photo by Subhashish Panigrahi, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Konkani Wikipedia
Wikimedistas de Colombia
Photo by Diego F. Gómez, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

9. Communities of practice
Open Education in Minority Languages: Chances and Perspectives
LangOER seminar, Leeuwarden, 7-8 October 2015
• Open resources that are easy to edit
• Networking between RML communities
• Involve students
• Mutual support, sharing and inspiration
• Competence development
• Multi-lingual repositories
• Process of creation more important
than results
See Conference Padlet wall

10. Questions/ideas/examples?
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