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2014 » Papers » Volume 1 » OER: Policy and best practices from Romania 1. OER: POLICY AND BEST PRACTICES FROM ROMANIA Authors: Pavel Valentina, Manolea Bogdan, Bucur Andra, Voicu Ovidiu, Constantinescu Nicolaie Volume 1 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-14-039 | Pages: 271-275 | Download PDF | Abstract
This paper builds on the practical experience gained during a 6 months project focused on awareness activities on open educational resources (OER) for librarians and academics in Romania. The aim of our project was to train the participants about OER and Creative Commons licences and their advantages, as well as encourage them to search for CC materials, find out how to use them and, more importantly understand how and why it is useful to produce materials under open licenses.
We will focus on best practices from Romania and abroad and it will discuss policy issues related to OER at a national level, specifically by identifying key actors and their interests and how these are reflected in the national debate on digital textbooks. We will include information on the newly created OER Coalition that was set up at the national level at the end of 2013.
Starting from explaining the open licenses up to how the resources are aggregated the workshops held aimed to clarify confusing aspects with regards to open education resources and also how to these are affecting the educational process. An important point for consideration was given to the rise of the MOOCs as tools for individual training as a complementary educational process to the traditional one.
More efforts were put into giving insights with regards to different types of resources needed to put together training and learning materials that one would call an open educational resource. Starting from different open media outlets (Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive, etc), up to the different grades of open licensing applied to the final aggregated resource many revealing inroads were unfolded to those who attended the workshops and also to many others given the media resulted from the workshops and the freely and openly distributed materials created during the project. | Keywords
OER, policy, key actors, open licenses, creative commons, coalition, digital textbooks |
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