Panel Discussion: OER Reuse and Remix - Case Study on Francophone-Anglophone Collaboration

This panel discussion was part of the ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021 program.

The geographic distribution of the French language includes Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and most significantly, Africa. However, while French is the second most taught language after English, it lags behind English and Mandarin in the number of Open Educational Resources (OERs) created and used. This impacts dramatically on higher education and professional training in francophone Africa, where public universities can only accommodate 10% of potential learners. Addressing this shortfall would require the development of private universities, open education, or both.

The LiDA103fr project focuses on building competencies needed to foster the creation of OERs, by addressing licensing issues. Drawing on the award-winning OERu course, ‘Open education, copyright, and open licensing in a digital world’, multiple teams collaborated across France, Norway, and New Zealand to translate learning materials, and add them to the OERu’s digital ecosystem, while addressing linguistic, cultural, and legal considerations, and solving technical issues, ready for the first workshop within the ICDE Francophone OER Project, held earlier this year.

In this panel discussion, some of the participants in this collaboration discussed how working on the OERu’s first non-English course demonstrates the potential for further multi-lingual versions of learning materials, and the application and sustainability of Open Education at its best.

 

Central questions which the panel discussed:

  • How can we upskill educators in digital skills for the 21st century?

  • Can a suitable course be adapted into different languages, or is it better to start from scratch?

  • Are there technical challenges of adapting a course in this way?

  • What can we learn from this experience to help us in the future?


Time, date and speakers

Topic: “OER Reuse and Remix: Case Study on Francophone-Anglophone Collaboration”

Date/Time: Tuesday 26 October at 09:00 - 10:30 CEST

Chair:

  • Claire Goode, Principal Lecturer, Otago Polytechnic (OP), New Zealand

 
 

Speakers:

Presentations from the panelists was followed by Q&A and discussions. Bio’s of the speakers can be found the bottom of this page.

Registered participants for the ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021 will receive links to join prior to the launch of the event.

 
 
 
 

Key outputs from the panel discussion:  

  1. Facilitating multi-lingual collaborations in OER

  2. Recommendations for adoption of open online courses in multiple languages

Speaker bio’s:

Jacques Dang

Jacques Dang is the Secretary of the Board at L’Université Numérique, the French Digital University. His areas of expertise are varied, ranging from broadband networks to open education, comparative law and innovation, deeply rooted in his experience as an entrepreneur in the field of telecommunications, a project leader in national and international collaborative projects and a senior adviser for policy in public institutions.

Together with Carole Schorlé-Stefan, he currently leads outreach initiatives from the French Higher Education sector to the global education community, with a specific focus on the UNESCO OER recommendation and French-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dave Lane

Dave Lane the OER Foundation’s (OERF) Open Source Technologist, responsible for the computing systems that power the OERu. He is a career IT specialist - software developer, system administrator, and operations security (op-sec) coordinator, with a long time interest in education. Dave is committed to using and contributing to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), because he thinks it’s better both technically and ethically. He believes that the best way for educators to create OERs is to use FOSS tools. Similarly, the best way to achieve equity in access to education globally is to use FOSS to deliver OER-based courses and support learner collaboration.

Wayne Mackintosh

Wayne Mackintosh is the founding director of the OER Foundation (OERF) headquartered at Otago Polytechnic Ltd, New Zealand. He coordinates the OERu, an international innovation partnership which aims to widen access to more affordable education for all. Wayne holds the UNESCO Chair in OER and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation.

Carole Schorlé-Stefan

Carole Schorlé-Stefan is a Higher Education professional with a PhD in social sciences about Orientation and Higher Education, and a background in Sociology, Management and Educational Sciences. She animates L’Université Numérique, the French Digital University, and coordinates the projects for the humanities. Carole works to promote the Open Education in France and Francophonie since 2007. She manages, with Ollivier Haemmerlé, L’Université Numérique’s President, a national project to develop students' written French skills. She’s involved in several other projects to develop e-learning in Higher Education and to make the teaching practices evolve. She is an experienced manager, especially in relationships between technology (digital culture, e-learning) and Universities.

Chair:

Claire Goode

Claire Goode is a Principal Lecturer in the Learning and Teaching Development team at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand. She works alongside academic staff across the Polytechnic to build their capabilities in multiple aspects of pedagogical practice. This includes programme and course design, assessment strategies, technology-enhanced learning, blended delivery, resource development, and continuing professional development. As part of her role, Claire is seconded to work on projects with the OERu, and has been enjoying developing OERu micro-courses, learning more about open principles, and being part of the wider OERu network. Claire is also one of the elected staff representatives on the Polytechnic’s Leadership Council. She is particularly interested in teacher development, and enjoys seeing how educational technology can enhance learning and teaching opportunities. She thoroughly embraces opportunities to share resources and expertise openly, and is passionate about adult education.

 
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