Global sharing. Affordable Learning
The gifts that keep on giving
A South Pacific OER story
Wayne Mackintosh | wayne@oerfoundation.org
UNESCO Chair in OER
Open Education Resource Foundation
UNESCO APAC Regional OER Consultation
The OER opportunity
There is no form of educational delivery more cost-effective, scalable and sustainable than open education
OER Foundation
FOSS
OER
OEP
Our Strategic point of difference
FOSS
Open source by opensouce.com published under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0
OERF's areas of action of the OER Recomendation
Action Area 1: Capacity building
Action Area 3: Inclusive and equitable access to OER
Action Area 5: International cooperation in OER
UNESCO UNITWIN Network
on Open Education
16 Open Education Chairs
13 Countries
An OER Gift - OCL4Ed
Gifts by PublicDomainPictures published under Pixabay license
6 Cohorts offered between 2011 and 2014
Supporting 3,049 learners from +90 countries
Micro-courses
LiDA103 - English version
LiDA103 - French version
Software localisation
LiDA Reuse example
Western Pacific University from university website, all rights reserved
Dr Janet Rangou
President
PNG Globe Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
Learning in a Digital Age
Required course for all degree students
Assessed by Western Pacific University
Papua New Guinea
Another OER Gift - 2015
Gifts by PublicDomainPictures published under Pixabay license
Pacific Partnership for ODFL
Open technology infrastructure
8 online courses
10,202 learners
Kiribati DS4OERS localisation
Kiribati ocean by Vladimir Lysenko, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
Anee Teiaua
Senior Lecturer
Kiribari globe, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
Population: 121,388
32 Atolls (20 inhabited) and one raised coral island
Total land area of 811 square km dispersed over 3.4 million square km
Pacific federated course sites
An existential crisis for OER?
Dead sunflowers by Frank Busch licensed under Creative Commons Non-commercial
Generative AI eradicates OER's former competitive advantage
A sustainable response for Small Island Developing states (SIDS)?
Build ecosystem diversity through open solutions
Scale down excessive technology consumption in education
Focus on digital sufficiency
Convivial technologies - Enact the commons with tools
Fully understandable, manageable and controllable by
the communities which rely on them
A SIDS platform cooperative
Our FOSSDLE project vision
Seagull sky flight by maleifl dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0
Empower every SID to
remix and host their own Open Educational Resources (OER) professional development programs
build digital skills capacity using shared open infrastructure
provide mentorship opportunities to gain practical experience
ensure quality education and knowledge sharing
Self-sufficiency and resilience for SIDS to cooperatively deploy OER-enabled online courses
The open multiplier effect
"The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."
Low cost
Low risk
High impact safety net
Seagull sky flight by maleifl dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0
Stephen Hawking
Investment in open solutions in education
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