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OER stories
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[edit] Why tell stories?
In a recently released report, Open Educational Resources: the Way Forward, members of the UNESCO OER Community identified awareness raising and promotion as the top priority issue to promote and enable the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement.
Community members proposed awareness raising activities. However, activities would benefit from resources, particularly common resources that can be used for a variety of types of activities and in different settings around the world.
Case studies - stories - of how institutions and individuals have developed or used OER would be a useful resource for awareness raising activities. Telling stories is a very powerful means of transmitting information. As one Community member expressed it, "stories inspire people and bring movements to life".
[edit] Get involved - contribute your story...
If you have developed or used OER and would be willing to share your experience with others then we would like to hear from you.
To contribute your story, start a new wiki page with the title "OER stories/Name of your initiative". Then add your page title to the OER stories list.
Alternatively, email your story to mailto:oer@unesco.org and we'll do the rest!
Stories can be brief (2-5 pages if using Word/OpenOffice) but should convey:
- What is most important in your story (what do you want the reader to take from your story?)
- The challenge or problem (what were you trying to do?)
- Context (the environment - political, institutional, financial, for example)
- Action (description of the strategy and activity)
- What worked (and why)
- What didn't work (and why)
- Next steps
- References/website
[edit] Stories in development
- OER stories home
Stories describing OER initiatives
OER providers
- BCcampus, Canada (Paul Stacey)
- Digital Learning Pathway, Italy (Leonardo Tosi)
- Free Courseware Project, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (Philipp Schmidt)
- Klagenfurt OpenCourseWare, Austria (Thomas Pfeffer)
- Knowledge Hub, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico (J. Vladimir Burgos Aguilar)
- New Zealand OER Project (Richard Wyles)
- OpenER, Open University of the Netherlands (Robert Schuwer)
- OpenLearn, The Open University, UK (Laura Dewis)
- Qedoc (James McCormack)
- SCOLA pilot, Italy (Giusy Cannella)
- SLIDESTAR, Europe (Volker Zimmermann)
- WikiEducator, Commonwealth of Learning (Wayne Mackintosh)
Other OER stakeholders
- African Virtual University (Philise Rasugu)
- OLCOS, Europe (Ildiko Mazar)
Stories of personal OER creation and use
- Connexions: Kitty Schmidt-Jones, USA
- National University of Rwanda (Gerald Rwagasana)
[edit] Other story projects
- DIDASknol: This project aims to build a digital textbook entirely written by teachers with the collaboration of their students.
- ISKME OER storytelling project: The output of work undertaken by ISKME (the group behind OERCommons), on the design of a template for future story development.
- In October 2008 Cynthia Jimes of OERCommons led a discussion to review the current template design so that it may be finalized with international input from the UNESCO OER Community.
- iCommons OER stories: Another story template, this time from iCommons, plus their first example - that of the South African Free High School Science Texts project.
- Open Education oral history project: Link to David Wiley's blog post, announcing a project to create an oral history archive for the open education movement, on the occasion of its tenth birthday.
- Creative Commons case studies project: Aims to chronicle past, present and future success stories of Creative Commons licensing. There is a separate section for educators and librarians.
[edit] Other awareness-raising resources on the wiki...
- NEW! Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace: UNESCO's first openly licensed publication brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of community activities. Download the PDFs - or buy the book!
- UNESCO OER Toolkit: Aimed at individual academics and decision-makers in higher education institutions that are interested in becoming active participants in the OER world.
- OER: the Way Forward: The results of an extensive international consultation to identify an agenda for advancing the OER movement. Initially released in English, the report has been translated collaboratively by community members. Twelve language versions are available.
- OER stories: In these stories community members share their experiences of creating and using OER. Read the stories that have been shared so far - or contribute your own!
- OER presentations: A space for community members to add links to slide presentations that they have given about OER and/or the community that may be adapted and used by others.
- Community flyer (PDF 1.87MB): Designed to raise awareness about the community itself, this flyer can be downloaded, printed and distributed at conferences, workshops and other events.
- Discussions and activities in other languages: Links to spin-off discussion groups and regional communities working in languages other than English.
