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Open educational practices, a tool for empowerment.

Alastair Creelman@alacre

Linnaeus University, Sweden

55 million people in EU speak languages that are not official EU languages

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OER sustainability

Open licenses (Creative Commons)

Plan for sharing, reuse and adaptation

Easy to edit and subtitle

Metadata

• Information• Quality

assurance/rating• Links to other

resources• Facilitate

discoverability• Example from

Sophia.org

Translation – a community approach

• Google Translator Toolkit• YouTube translation• TED Open translation projec

t• Khan Academy translation• Amara subtitle editor• More detailed presentation:

Open Educational Practices in small languages: the role of community engagement

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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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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

Wikipedia communities

Photo by Subhashish Panigrahi, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Konkani Wikipedia

Wikimedistas de Colombia

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Communities of practice

Open Education in Minority Languages: Chances and PerspectivesLangOER 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

Questions/ideas/examples?

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