Global sharing. Affordable Learning

FOSSDLE

Building a Pacific open platform cooperative to support the implementation of the OER Recommendation

Wayne Mackintosh

UNESCO Chair in OER

Open Education Resource Foundation

Nurturing sustainable futures

There is no form of educational delivery more cost-effective, scalable and sustainable than open education

OER Foundation

From vision to reality

“Open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues”

 

(The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, 2007).

Seagull sky flight by maleifl dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0

The PPODFL challenge

 

More than half of the teachers in the Pacific do not have access to an LMS

FOSS digital learning ecosystem

Component-based system

A Pacific platform cooperative

 

Authoring and publishing technology

Author on WikiEducator

Outline of wiki pages

Publish course web site

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OERF learning environment

 

Course web site

Distributed interaction tools

Live course feed

OERu micro-courses

2019 Commonwealth of Learning Award for Excellence in Distance Education Materials

LiDA103 - English version

LiDA103 - French version

Software localisation

Pacific federated course sites

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OERu.org

FOSSDLE - Pacific open platform cooperative

By Wayne Mackintosh

FOSSDLE - Pacific open platform cooperative

Introducing the cOERtc initative

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