Open Education Café. Encouraging effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER
Channel: European Network of Open Education Librarians
Date: 2023-04-02

OE Champions Catherine Cronin (Independent open scholar, Ireland), Shironica P. Karunanayaka (Senior Professor in Educational Technology, The Open University of Sri Lanka), Chrissi Nerantzi (Associate Professor in Education, University of Leeds, UK), and Kamil Śliwowski (Blogger and trainer, Poland) talk about their experiences relating to Area 3 of the UNESCO OER Recommendation: Encouraging effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER.

See also our OE bite on Area 3 here: https://youtu.be/WjQEDps66bc

Join ENOEL: https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-education/enoel/

LINKS SHARED DURING THE SESSION
OE Champions project: https://openscholarchampions.eu/openeducation/champions/
OE bite on the third area of action of the UNESCO OER Recommendation: https://youtu.be/WjQEDps66bc
The UNESCO Recommendation on OER, published in November 2019, lists 5 areas of action (five objectives). You can add your comments and suggestions to this UNESCO OER REC version with Hypothes.is: 1. Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER)

Resources shared by Shironica Karunanayaka:
Capacity development of schoolteachers (C-DELTA COL Project, 2018-2022) Digital Education Leaders in Action: https://cdeltaousl.wordpress.com/
CMOOCs on OER and OEP (CEMCA Project, 2016-2018) MOOC Musings: https://cpdmoocs.wordpress.com/
CPDMOOCs on OER and OEP: https://www.ou.ac.lk/apps/mooc/
Capacity development of schoolteachers (ROER4D Project, 2015-2016)
Dreamweaving OEP: https://oertlousl.wordpress.com/
Books published as OER, with CC licenses
Pathways to Open Educational Practices (2020)
https://www.ou.ac.lk/home/images/Faculty_and_institute/Edu/Pathways_to_OEP_eBook.pdf
Dreamweaving Open Educational Practices (2016)
http://www.ou.ac.lk/home/images/OUSL/publications/Dreamweaving%20Open%20Educational%20Practices.pdf
Integrating OER in Educational Practice: Practitioner Stories (2014)
http://www.ou.ac.lk/home/images/OUSL/publications/intergratingOERinEducationalPractice.pdf
OER Policy development at OUSL
OUSL-OER Policy Version 1: 
https://oer4dev.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/ousl-oer-policy-final-2.pdf
OUSL-OER Policy Version 2:
https://www.ou.ac.lk/home/images/OUSL/Policy/OER_Policy(Revised)2020.pdf
Compilation of Open Educational Practices at OUSL
OEPGateway@OUSL: https://oepousl.wordpress.com/

Resources shared by Catherine Cronin:
Open publications: http://catherinecronin.net/publications/
GO-GN Fellowship and ‘Just Knowledge’ project: https://go-gn.net/gogn_outputs/fellowship-reflections-report/
Book: ‘Higher Education for Good’ (#HE4Good) http://bit.ly/HE4Good_updates
Article: ‘Framing OEP from a social justice perspective’ http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.565 
UNESCO policy brief ‘Defining & Developing Enabling OE Policies in HE’ (13 authors, global focus): https://oars.uos.ac.uk/2481/