Hi everyone,
Thank you Nichole for sharing the link. Wikimedia Deutschland is working
for some years in the field of open Educational Ressources (oer) and we
also think that we can improve a lot in the Situation of opening up
education.
Great to hear this political work also starts to grow in the movement. It
is the necessary environment for our work to grow.
We are also working an a Statement für the UNESCO declaration. On the
Website you can download the declaration in english and the way to comment
is very easy. So I also empower everyone interested to comment.
Thanks for your ideas mina.
All the best,
Elly
Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org> schrieb am Di., 15. Mai 2018, 11:46:
Hi Mina,
I can't promise that we'll have time to read them, but please do send the
links! Thanks for already putting so much thought into this important
topic.
best,uh
Nichole
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:18 AM, Mina Theofilatou <saintfevrier(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Nichole this is very interesting and promising!
Unfortunately I do not
have
the time to go through the jargon and add
comments... I do however have
three things to offer that may help (if you - or someone else - would be
willing to investigate where they could fit in!) I have co-authored two
conference papers - one in Greek and one in English - on the use of
Wikipedia as an OER (Greek) and teaching cultural heritage with the
Wikimedia projects (English). The third is a vision paper on Open
Education
in Europe 2030 (this has been published on their
website). If you think
these would help I would be happy to send links :)
BW
Mina (User:Saintfevrier)
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
*Dear colleagues,As you may have heard, in March
I spent a couple of
weeks
> at UNESCO for Mobile Learning Week and to network with folks there
about
> global goals for education and Wikimedia in
education. A few really
great
opportunities came up, but one of them is quite pressing. The UNESCO
Communications and Information Sector
<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/> (CI) is
leading the initiative for the General Conference
<https://en.unesco.org/generalconference> to adopt a recommendation
about
the use of OERs to achieve Sustainable
Development Goal 4 (SDG4). Some
background information on recommendations can be found here
<http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23772&URL_DO=DO_
TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>.
A quick summary is that a recommendation, though not an enforceable
policy
mechanism, requires that member states who apply
to it adopt national
policies that align with the recommendation and report on their
compliance.
> Essentially, we have the opportunity to be a part of influencing policy
> around the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in education. UNESCO
> adopting this policy will mean that governments around the world will
be
strongly
compelled to support the use of OER in education. For us, this
means that Wikimedia projects will have a stronger reputation in
education
globally. Wikimedia projects are OERs that not
only allow students to
consume information, but that support the critical consumption of
information as well as empower students and educators to be content
creators. Contributing to this policy recommendation will give us the
opportunity to advocate for that message, and support the work of
community
members around the world who are doing education
programs.We have been
formally invited to participate in the open invitation for comments on
this
> recommendation, and the deadline is set for June 1. I’m asking for your
> input, so that we can make this comment as a collective. Here is how
you
> can participate: *Read the
Recommendation.(There are both English
> <https://www.oercongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/
> Draft-OER-Recommendation-Version-Draft-18-April-2018-
> text-for-online-consultation-ENG.pdf>
> and French
> <https://www.oercongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/
> Draft-OER-Recommendation-Version-Draft-18-April-2018-
> text-for-online-consultation-FR.pdf>
> Versions)*Provide your input in this google form
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHGzJZQqs3kbWclQeN5xI7
> P9e2OY-mlXDP35PYrXtfNWYB7A/viewform?usp=sf_link>
> by May 18. Please note that the document itself is full of UN and
policy
jargon,
and may be difficult to analyze. I’ve included some guiding
questions in the google form that will hopefully help you to provide
input.
> This invitation is a good first step in developing a closer
relationship
> with UNESCO for Wikimedia projects in
Education, and I hope to be
sharing
more
opportunities with you in the future. best regards,Nichole*
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