Workshop on Sustainability of Open Educational Resources

prof. John Shaw Taylor, UCL and UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence

X5GON is an EU project (2017–2020) with eight partners from the UK, France, Slovenia, Germany and Spain. It is intended to help students and the general public learn effectively and enjoyably by providing a personalized route through appropriately prioritized Open Educational Resources (OER).

Colin de la Higuera, University of Nantes, UNESCO Chair in OER

The mySangham learning portal in India (http://mysangham.aerl.in) addresses all sorts of jobs and skills and proposes online courses for audiences which may not be typical in Europe. We will present the portal and the learning challenges they face, as well as some perspectives for X5GON.

Eric Cherel, CRI

iLearn will index and qualify learning resources through artificial intelligence and massive crowdsourcing, let people analyse their own learning path, help them search for pedagogical resources and evaluate them as a community.

Olaf A. Schulte, ETH Zürich

The Opencast Video Management Software is an open-source project to manage educational video assets. The software development started in 2009 and was only funded for one year by the Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Since then the academic community managed on their own to keep the software development alive, with currently around 15 active developers, a handful of companies offering Opencast compatible recorders and around 300 universities worldwide, who adopted the system.

Jan Neumann, OERWorldmap

The goal of the OER World Map is to illuminate the global Open Educational Resources movement by facilitating interaction and collaboration. It collects and shares open data about actors and activities related to OER. The supplied information supports a wide range of use cases.

Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, UNESCO Chair in OER

The Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER) is a landmark commitment by UNESCO Member States to promote and strengthen learning and education via OER.

If all OER affine IT experts would join common activities it would still be a challenge to develop well-functioning and comfortable OER-friendly infrastructures. It needs cooperation between states, educational institutions, libraries, experts and projects like X5gon. In the In the German OER community developers and operators of learning platforms, educational servers, school cloud systems work together. You and we are developing concepts and prototypes and work in transfer projects. Lets do this together!

Sebastian Osada and Felix Weber, University of Osnabrueck

With the use of this currently developed assistant, students should be encouraged to define their own educational goals and to follow them consistently. In the future, the data-driven environment will be able to give hints, reminders and recommendations appropriate to the situation, and allow comparisons with different reference standards. These tips and recommendations should help students to make informed decisions for their own individual educational path (website).

Renato Garita Figueiredo, University of Osnabrueck

As part of an effort to facilitate the management of copyrighted material for educational institutions, the University of Osnabrück developed a system for classification of documents according to their copyright status. This system can help educational institutions develop better solutions to manage the data stored in their servers and it can be extended to build more tailored classification procedures that rely on the integration of data from multiple features extracted from the documents and their metadata.