1. This project was financed with the support of the European Commission. This publication is the sole responsibility of the author and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Exploring the Landscape of Open Educational Practices: LangOER and other initiatives Elena Shulman, PhD (European Schoolnet)

2. About the LangOER project Enhance the linguistic and cultural components of OER Raise awareness of risk of exclusion of less used languages Foster sustainability through OER reuse Address needs of policy makers and educators – Training of educators from LUL communities – Mainstream good practice at policy making level

3. LangOER project partners

4. UNESCO’s Definition of OER Definition of OER: -teaching, learning and research materials in the public domain OR released under an open license -no-cost access -possible to adapt and redistribute with no or limited restrictions UNESCO, 2012, Paris OER Declaration

5. Overview of the Webinars

6. Achieved Report The state-of-the-art report covers 22 languages

7. Achieved Policy Brief Policy workshop organized by ICDE in 2014 Resulted in a policy brief:policy brief available in EN, EL, LT, LV,NL,SE, PL and Frisian viewed +320 times. High interest: some ICDE members & partners decided to translate into: Russian, Faroese, Arabic, Norwegian, Bahasa Indonesian

8. Achieved Policy Brief 3 Recommendations to governments: Adopt national policies in support of Open Educational Resources in less used languages. Facilitate in partnership with private, public and the educational sector, market places and collaborative arenas for quality OER. Take the leadership in facilitating the development of open frameworks and standards to ease the ability of OER repositories and systems to work together (provide and accept educational content, compatible applications and contextualised services).

9. 18 expert interviews on “Language teaching and learning through OER and OEP”Language teaching and learning through OER and OEP Youtube channel of European Schoolnet Achieved Dialogue: OER for language learning

10. Recent and Forthcoming activities Teacher training activities in GR, LV, LT, PL, SE, NO in Spring 2015  Covering: Licensing, how to find and use OER, how to create OERs Policy Brief (published in January 2015) Final Conference in Brussels (2016)

11. …but there are some challenges Searching, discoverability and sharing Copyright and quality Concepts of the culture of OEP and reflective practice is novel to some groups Incentives for fully sustained development For some teachers, resources are not to be shared as they are ‘their stock-in-trade’

12. Your ideas Roundtable Dissemination? Partnering? Links with national/international initiatives you know of Experiences from the field? Interest in involvement for specific activities? Practices?

13. Staying in touch http://langoer.eun.org/ #langOER LangOER OER and languages LangOER teachers’ group