{"id":2993,"date":"2022-08-18T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2022-09-15T09:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:06:47","slug":"how-can-we-leverage-open-education-and-oer-for-access-and-participation-in-he-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/how-can-we-leverage-open-education-and-oer-for-access-and-participation-in-he-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"How can we leverage open education and OER for access and participation in HE for refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are pleased to invite you to our monthly\u00a0Connected Higher Education in Crisis contexts<\/strong>\u00a0series, taking place online on\u00a0Wednesday 1<\/strong>4th<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>, from\u00a01<\/strong>5:00 to 16:30 BST<\/strong>. The events are held by the Open University UK in collaboration with the Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.<\/p>\n

Presentation Title:\u00a0How can we leverage open education and OER for access and participation in HE for refugees?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Link to Recording<\/a><\/p>\n

Presenters:
\n<\/strong>Professor Martin Weller<\/a>, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
\nJamie Alexandre,<\/a>\u00a0Executive Director and Co-Founder of Learning Equality<\/p>\n

Presentation 1 by Professor Martin Weller:<\/strong> How do we\u00a0leverage open educational resources for learning in crisis contexts?<\/p>\n

Abstract:
\n<\/strong>This talk will examine how Open Education Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP), can be utilised in different contexts to improve access, social justice and their role in responding to the online pivot. Different aspects of open education will be considered, and their relation to formal education. The talk will explore the benefits and issues relating to open educational practices for learners, educator, and institutions.<\/p>\n

Presentation 2 by Jamie Alexander<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong>
\nOpen Educational Resources (OER) are free of cost, adaptable, and able to be remixed and openly distributed. Despite these clear benefits, they have yet to realize their full potential to support refugee and host community learners and educators, and others in low-resource settings. This presentation will explore some of the barriers preventing broad and effective adoption, including limited infrastructure and lack of contextualization and alignment. We will also discuss the work we are doing with UNHCR and other partners to address these challenges, including the creation of open-source tools for supporting completely offline distribution, teaching, and learning, as well as enabling the process of aligning resources from a large offline-ready OER repository to national curricular standards, through both manual expert-driven processes and semi-automated methods.<\/p>\n

Author bios:
\n<\/strong>Jamie Alexandre\u00a0<\/a>has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego, and is co-founder and Executive Director of Learning Equality, an education technology non-profit that creates and supports open source tools to address the infrastructural and resource equity gaps that further marginalize populations with limited or no Internet access. Kolibri, Learning Equality\u2019s open-source offline-installable education platform, has been installed in 220 countries and territories, in rural schools, orphanages, community centers, refugee camps, prisons, and homes. A lifelong tinkerer with a passion for social justice and animal rights, Jamie\u2019s career has been driven by a desire to build a more equitable world.<\/p>\n

Professor Martin Weller<\/a>\u00a0is Professor of Educational Technology, in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University. He is currently the Chair of the Open Programme, the Open University\u2019s flexible, multi-disciplinary degree, and the Director of the GO-GN, a global network of Doctoral students in the area of open education. He developed the OU\u2019s first fully online course in 1999, which attracted over 15,000 students annually. He was the OU\u2019s first VLE Director, and is the Director of the OER Hub team, who undertake research into aspects of open education. He is the author of The Digital Scholar, 25 Years of Ed Tech and Metaphors of Ed Tech. He maintains a popular blog at blog.edtechie.net.<\/p>\n

Recordings:<\/strong>\u00a0Link to Recording<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information about this series of events please get in touch with Dr Koula Charitonos, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University at\u00a0koula.charitonos@open.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0or Francis Randle,\u00a0Division of Resilience and Solutions,\u00a0UNHCR at\u00a0RANDLE at UNHCR.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you would like to be sent a meeting request for these events please contact Yemi at\u00a0openTEL at open.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

[embeddoc url=”https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CHE-invitation_OER_.pdf” download=”all”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are pleased to invite you to our monthly\u00a0Connected Higher Education in Crisis contexts\u00a0series, taking place online on\u00a0Wednesday 14th September 2022, from\u00a015:00 to 16:30 BST. The events are held by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-webinar-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}