OE Week, 4-8 March, 2024
Open Education Week, 4-8 March, 2024
We join the 12th Open Education Week, an event launched by the Open Education Global community in 2012.
OEWeek aims to raise awareness, highlight the importance of open education and showcase the successes associated with it. Access to open educational resources, is the foundation for the development of science, industry and other areas of life. However, the amount of data collected is subject to a certain order therefore the rules for the use of open educational resources are defined by, for example, licenses. Although open educational resources are available to the public and can be used and passed on for use, be sure to cite the source of the information. Educational resources can be broadly defined, ranging from text documents, various types of graphics, videos, patents, open research data, open software. Open Educational Resources are also platforms where these materials can be found. When thinking about open education, it sometimes seems that this is data collected only for pupils, not for university students or researchers. Nothing could be further from the truth, the concept of opening access to educational materials allows people to improve their professional skills, develop their interests or help them chart a career path.
The idea behind Open Education Week is to spread awareness, showcase initiatives and celebrate the impact of open education on teaching and learning. With Open Access, we are able to leverage the experience and knowledge of others by adapting it to individual needs. We have prepared a guide for you to explore Open Access in an accessible form (informative and instructional videos).
Find out what Open Access is all about:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgpxeGwfagI&t=29s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJEARDuFag
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m6p6w8oOw4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwg32l1G_nQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXpF8bU714
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAwr9qnDF7Y
What you gain with Open Access:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBLHT7Zabzk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=km7x1pF9ehk
How to use open licences:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouQowkWRlmA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCd-nIWm12c
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3_EyNg1dE
What publishing route to take:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfZa2ihGzQE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glf7gIzdekc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E18fPQ5dkbg
Open Educational Platforms
- OER Commons (new window) – digital library collecting open educational resources,
- MIT OpenCourseWare (new window) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses,
- OpenStax (new window) – Rice University's initiative to make open academic textbooks available, in Poland the textbooks are translated and published by the Foundation OpenStax Poland (new window), Licence: CC-BY.
- CCC (Community College Consortium) for OER (new window) – provides resources, support and collaborative opportunities for learning, planning and implementing successful open education programmes at community and technical colleges. Its activities include sharing best practices through regular webinars, online events and conferences; maintain an active email list for the community for updates, ideas, inquiries and support; raise awareness of open education and its benefits; conducting workshops and presentations across North America and supporting the needs of students and faculty at universities involved in the adoption of OER into courses and full learning pathways.
- Conversational American English/Textbook (new window) – a free textbook for learning conversational English. It consists of a set of exercises and commands, supplemented by texts and materials to be familiar with. Built on the basis of free resources. Public domain,
- Coursera (new window) – an educational platform for higher education that features courses including video lectures, exercises, homework assignments and discussion forums. Many courses are free. Paid courses provide additional quizzes and projects, as well as the opportunity to receive a certificate. More than 200 universities have partnered with Coursera,
- edX (new window) – founded by Harvard and MIT USA, an open-source platform with courses in computer science, engineering, psychology, electronics, biology, marketing, language learning and editing,
- Libre Text (new window) – Open source e-books in chemistry, biology and mathematics. Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike,
- Open Culture (new window) – a platform featuring open courses, audio and ebooks, and videos,
- Open Education Consortium (new window) – free and open publications, which are high-quality educational materials for schools and universities, posted on the site of the global community promoting open education - The Open Education Consortium,
- Platforma Open Educational Resources Commons (new window) – is dedicated to the promotion of open educational resources. It contains more than 50,000 open resources, such as full university courses, interactive mini-lectures and simulations, adaptations of existing open materials, open textbooks, lesson plans, worksheets and activities. The tools of this platform are:
- OpenIntro (new window) – open digital academic textbooks in statistics and mathematics and teaching aids (labs, videos). Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike,
- PheT Inteactive Simulations (new window) – a library of interactive simulations in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and earth sciences. Licence: CC-BY.
- Saylor Academy Open Textbooks (new window) – online university courses in the humanities, social sciences and exact sciences. The 28,000 educational objects - essays, textbooks, videos, tools. Licence CC-BY.
- TED.com (new window) – Sopling Foundation lectures, scientific conferences in many fields. Licence: CC BY-NC-ND.
Source: www.buw.uw.edu.pl/dla-nauki/otwarta-nauka/otwarte-zasoby-edukacyjne/