The UNESCO and UNESCO/COL Chairs will report on their activities:
1 Global OER Graduate Network (priority at PhD level) (coordinator OUNL)
2 OER Knowledge Cloud (coordinator AU)
and two enabling Lines of Action:
3 Global OER Map of national and institutional OER initiatives
4 Global balance in the network of UNESCO Chairs in OER, connected in a UNESCO UNITWIN network
These four Lines of Action will contribute through specific activities to the overall Plan of Action for the next few years.
1 Global OER Graduate Network
- Umbrella for PhD (& Master) research on OER linked to different disciplines;
- Addressing fundaments, design, applications, practice, context, evaluation & monitoring;
- Partner universities around the world;
- PhD candidates (& Master students) - both full-time and part-time;
- Joint supervision, (home university plus 1-2 partner universities in other countries);
- Learning network / community of practice of PhD candidates (& Master students) and supervisors;
- Shared quality standards/research guidelines;
- Shared online training facilities/courses;
- Expand OER research base, develop/explore new knowledge and increase evidence for practice;
- Publications, presentations, reports, theses
2 OER Knowledge Cloud
- Overall (free) provision of knowledge about OER
- Specific emphasis on maintenance of the Cloud
- The Graduate Network will be an important provider
- Including books, papers, reports
- Freely available for replication, reproduction in different repositories and/or learning environments.
3 Global OER Map
- A global map of national and institutional initiatives is intended to provide a bird’s eye view of the OER movement;
- describing the scale of the movement and the growth of initiatives over time
4 Global balance in the network of UNESCO Chairs in OER
- With one UNESCO Chair in OER in Europe and one in North America it is essential to establish UNESCO Chairs in OER at least on the other continents;
- This UNESCO Chair configuration will naturally become a UNESCO UNITWIN network in OER;
- With each new UNESCO Chair in OER coming in, the Plan of Action shall be updated
