1. Elevator pitch:26 countries in 26 minutes Paul Bacsich, Ming Nie, Nick Jeans, RobertSchuwer, Terence Karran, Gabi Witthaus OER 13, 27 March 2013, Nottingham

2. This presentation is based on analysis ofCountry reportsMini reportsAustraliaArgentinaBelgiumDenmark Canada Finland France GreeceHungaryGulf States (3)Italy MexicoNew Zealand Norway PolandPortugal The Netherlands Romania UKSouth AfricaUSASpainSweden Thailand 3. Gulf States and ThailandNick Jeans and Paul Bacsich with input from POERUP country author team 4. Kuwait: e-learning and OA but not OER General: substantial e-learning and notonly from Arab Open University Schools: none found HE: e-learning active, no OER found CPD: Open Knowledge Zone OA: Kuwait Foundation for theAdvancement of Sciences 5. Qatar: ICT in ed but no OER General: Qatar National e-Learning Portalwithin ICTQatar context: Schools: none found HE: some e-learning including from non-Qatar providers but no OER 6. Oman: early days even for e-learning General: eOman portal with focus onKnowledge Society Schools: early e-learning activity, somecontent being developed HE: Branch of Arab OU and some otherearly e-learning 7. Thailand: substantial e-learning, some OER Schools: significant e-learning (not OER): virtual schooling, TV as well as internet HE: substantial e-learning in HE e.g. at Ramkamhaeng University HE: OER initiatives at: Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University Thailand Cyber University consortium (TCU) Chulalongkorn University (part of OCW) 8. UK, France, Romania, Poland,AustraliaMing Nie with input fromPOERUP country author team 9. UK: Much past funding from government to HE JISC/HEA OER Programme: Overall funding of more than GPB 13 million from 2009 until the Programme ended in 2012 Massive amount of OER covering a variety of subjects released SCORE: Support Centre for Open Resources in Education Provided support to OER-related activities, events, and service until closure in July 2012 10. France: Various OER initiatives in HE Digital universities: 7 thematic digital universities in 2012 23,000 resources (video, courses, exercises, MCQ) Not all resources are OERs Other OER initiatives: MOOC ItyPA: first French-speaking MOOC SILLAGES initiative: multimedia educational contents as OER, preparing students for entrance examination Exo7: an online math exercises sites for HE students 11. Romania: OER incorporated into policies OER in government programme: The Government Programme for 2013-16:support the innovative integration of Web2.0and OER in education OER in educational policies: The public policies for ICT integration in thepre-university system: promotion the use ofopen/free resources; development and sharingof resources by teachers 12. Poland: huge investment in schools Digital School Programme: Government investment of Euro 13 million Schools will be computerized andeducational materials will be produced andreleased in CC BY 3.0 licence No significant OER activities in HE 13. Australia: various OER activities Open government (AusGOAL) Free for Education (FFE) movement OER for schools: National Digital LearningResource Network, Scootle OER for HE: A university consortium todevelop an OER protocol; The AustralasianCouncil on Open, Distance and E-learning topromote the uptake of OER; USQ has a formalOER strategy, and joined OCW and OERu 14. Netherlands, Flanders, Italy, Greece Robert Schuwer with input fromPOERUP country author team 15. Netherlands OER available from both educationalinstitutions as from cultural heritage andpublic broadcast National program Wikiwijs Mainstream OER in all educational sectors HE uptake of interest caused by MOOCs Some disciplines strong initiatives Medical education (HE) Green education (Sec. ed to university) 16. Belgium (Flanders) National: Klascement Content for special (needs) education Leuven University Ariadne Cultural studies 17. Italy National: Only books with a digital version available are to be adopted Oilproject (2004): 2200 lessons and 10K students Regional Trio Toscane (only free availability, no OER) Several institutional OER projects (HE) Survey 2009 revealed the common problemspreventing an uptake of OER (a.o. distrust, no cultureof sharing, lack of funding) 18. Greece OER activities through all educational sectors Several OA repositories and an OA harvester National: Digital school: all textbooks of all educationalsectors (e-books) No institutional initiatives 19. Mexico, Argentina, Spain,PortugalTerence Karran with input from POERUP country author team 20. Mxico: the tortoise, not the hare National programmes e-Mexico: Telesecundaria providing learning materials for800,000 students and 23,000 teachers. Edusat - Educational Satellite Television Network - 6tv, 24 audio channels reaches over 10,000 schoolswith a total of 20,000 receivers. OER in HE small but growing. Temoa, developed by ITESM: is a specialized searchengine that enables the educational community tosearch a public bilingual catalogue of OpenEducational Resources, to find those educationalresources and materials that best meet their needsfor teaching 21. Argentina: building on a heritage of ODL National programmes: Virtual Campus of Public Health available to thepublic health community - any professional can useit to support his activity and can participate in thevirtual classroom, see learning objects, createcourses, presentations, or videos (using MoodleElluminate, MyMLE-Moodle Mvil and eXelearning),and add them to the Campus OER in HE - Oportunidad Project Strengthening and sustaining the EU-LA CommonHigher Education Area, through a bottom-upapproach, by the increasing use of open educationalpractices and resources (OEP & OER) 22. Spain: an embarrassment of OER riches List of 78 OA initiatives identified (3 modes): Open Access contents on the Internet but authors rights honoured Mixed OA and OER, enabling either the use of copyright, or the use of Creative Commons licenses OER initiatives using only Creative Commons license International level: Universia network of 1,1000 Universities located in 15 countries, 10.1 million students, 8 million users and 850,000 university teaching staff, Spain plus Latin American nations OCW started by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in 2008, 21 universities now offer OCW in Castillian, but also in Catalan, Galician and English 23. Portugal: OER efforts focussed on young children National programmes: Portal das Escolas: repository of digital contents forteachers and that offers over a thousand digitaleducational resources - texts, images, videos or musicand blogs. Teachers in public education up to 12thgrade can upload educational resources into thisrepository OER in HE Repositrio Cientfico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal -used freely by all the scientific and higher educationinstitutions for hosting their repositories, thusintegrating them into a coherent system of scientificmetadata open access repositories in the country 24. South Africa, Canada, New ZealandGabi Witthaus with input fromPOERUP country author team 25. South Africa: high quality learning resourcesOER policies: The Department of Higher Education and Training hasincluded the development of an Open and DistanceLearning (ODL) policy framework in its strategic planfor 20102014, which will include OER.Teacher education: All educational resources developed through fundedprojects must be released under a CC licence.Regional cooperation: The Southern African Development Community isdeveloping an ODL policy and strategic plan forsharing learning materials. 26. Canada: a lot of open National policy initiatives not possible Open access policies: Athabasca University,Universities of Ottawa & Toronto/OISE Provincial OER initiatives: BCcampus inBritish Columbia; Contact North in Ontario OER initiatives at Athabasca, Manitoba,Thompson Rivers, Royal Roads, Capilanoand OCAD Universities Lack of public funding a serious threat 27. New Zealand: significant OER developmentNational policy guidance: Government Open Access and Licensingframework (NZGOAL)Schools sector: OER portals via WikieducatorTertiary education: OARINZ: open access research repository(Ako Aotearoa website) OER university 8 NZ institutions Otago Polytechnic has an OER policy 28. Scandinavia, Hungary and USPaul Bacsich with input fromPOERUP country author team 29. Norway: Some HE and schools OER activities General: strong development of e-learning Schools: several initiatives including: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation Norwegian Centre for Science Education Ovttas: for Sami schools HE: Not much except Universities of Oslo and Stavanger 30. Denmark: Several OER activities General: Significant e-learning but littledistance learning Schools: Some major initiatives: EMU main public portal Danish Public Broadcasting: Academy University of Copenhagen portal for schools HE: A bit at Aarhus University 31. Sweden: A few OER activities General: substantial e-learning and distancelearning in HE; and some virtual schools Schools: a few including: Lnkskafferiet National Library of Sweden Open Access HE: OERSverige and a similar one for SouthSweden universities 32. Finland: An immense amount of OER activities Long history of e-learning but not massified? Years of good collaboration in EU projects Schools Initiatives: LeMill, YLE, and Edu.fi HE: seems to be not much though noteHelsinki Metropolia University (AS) in OCW 33. Hungary: Not much OER Strong in Open Access, quite strong in e-learning & distance learning, not in OER Schools: OER activities in Sulinet HE: activities under way at U Miskolc andEtvs Lornd U Grass-roots activities by students 34. US: Leading the world in OER activities General: massive deployment of e-L and DL acrossHE, colleges and schools (NB Re.ViCa, VISCED, Sloan-C, WCET reports) HQ/core of many OER-related organisations Schools: Free textbook movement is key driver; butonly one OER Virtual School? HE: OCW and the MOOCs, but lots more Business models emerging faster for free/low-costHE UNow, UoPeople, Coursera, Ameritas, edX, USHEIs in OER U, WGU use of OER, etc 35. Further information POERUP website: www.poerup.infoWiki: http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Country_reportsContact: paul.bacsich@sero.co.uk