The challenge is to find robust mechanisms for academic credit for these OER learners.
Improve both cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning outcomes through greater use of OER.
Encourage the development of mechanisms for the assessment and certification of learning outcomes achieved through OER.
Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts.
Members of the UNESCO OER team will assist with the facilitation of the workshop.
Mainstream education is embracing these new tools and OER content perhaps more rapidly than is generally realized.
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Intergovernmental organisations should encourage the sharing of OER across languages and cultures, respecting indigenous knowledge and rights.
Adopt appropriate open standards to ensure interoperability and to facilitate the use of OER in diverse media.
The delegates split into two groups of government and non-government representatives to discuss the draft OER Declaration.
Improve media and information literacy and encourage the development and use of OER in open standard digital formats.
More information about the ongoing work of the OER community can be found on the community wiki.
Encourage the development of user-friendly tools to locate and retrieve OER that are specific and relevant to particular needs.
The first UNESCO publication to be made available on the OER Platform is the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education.
Favour the production and use of OER in local languages and diverse cultural contexts to ensure their relevance and accessibility.
The Chairs in OER are participating as lead facilitators of the course in collaboration with the UNESCO UNITWIN OER Chair network.
The aim was to alert educational decision makers to the importance of OER in expanding and improving education, training and learning generally.
Members of civil society also expressed their satisfaction with the OER strategy, while also mentioning challenges inherent in the task at hand.
Abel Caine from UNESCO provided a brief overview of the context of the World OER Congress and the UNESCO OER Programme.
With the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning are organizing the 2012 World OER Congress.
The Latin America OER Forum was the third in a series of worldwide regional consultations leading up to the World OER Congress in June.
In November 2006, members of the IIEP OER community were joined by OER experts and other interested individuals for a second formal discusssion forum.
"The Learning4Content model demonstrates that OER is cost effective and infinitely scalable, " said Dr Wayne Mackintosh, Director of the OER Foundation and founder of WikiEducator.
Its murder rate in 2011 was 17 oer 100, 000, 24th in the country among cities with more than 200, 000 population and less than half Detroit.
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The expected outcomes of the workshop are the guidelines on the production and use of OER and the recommendations on open licensing and IPR-related issues.
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Special guests at the OER Platform launch include Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Rector of the Polytechnic of Namibia and Mr Edwin Tjiramba of the University of Namibia.
Now the Organization is developing its OER Platform, which will make the Model Curricula available as an open educational resource and share its adaptations by journalism schools.
Phil Ker, Chief Executive of Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, highlights that "OER is the means by which education at all levels can be more accessible, more affordable and more efficient".
We see every day the enthusiasm that teachers and educators have around utilizing and contributing to a rapidly growing body of OER content that helps to support a post-modern learning environment.
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Federal representative of Brazil Paulo Teixeira spoke about the private OER Bill, currently before the Brazil Chamber of Deputies, which calls for government-funded educational resources to be made available as OERs.
Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER.
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