Program Plan (final, including methodology)

17:00 - 17:20 Welcome by Jan Pawlowski, coordinator of NORDLET and University of Jyväskylä
17:20 - 18:30 My favourite -- NORDLET partners and participants present their favourite learning resource, repository or technology: Where did we come from and where are we heading? Moderator: Peter Karlberg, Skolverket, Sweden
Method:

• Brief introduction of the presenters and guests: What is the project you are presenting, what is the key experience you bring to the conference, what are your expectation?

Intended outcome

• Idea what is going on in each country, what do each partner stand for?

18:30 - 19:30 I will sleep on this one - My case for a Nordic Baltic OER Declaration: Short presentations of the participants' input statements to prepare the ground for next day's meeting.

• Input statements: What are the main success factors, what are the main challenges

Intended outcome

• Collection of inputs (success factors, recommendations)
• Sort input regarding the questions:

• Collaboration: How to organize successful Nordic Baltic collaborations in Open Education, what are differences and barriers?
• Pedagogies: Why does Open Education and sharing work better in the Nordic-Baltic countries? How to embed OER in the curriculum and teaching activities?
• Technical aspects: How to make OER work on a technical level?
• Internationalization: How to deal with cultural & language differences?
• Legal and policy aspect: How to deal with IPR? How to get support on a policy level?

OER informal discussion (19.30-20.15)* Each presenter to set up a small stand and explain what the project is about

• People to walk around the stands

24 November 2011 - 9:00 – 16.00
Theme: Setting the Future Agenda for Open Educational Collaboration
9:00 - 9:30 Wrap up of last nights recommendations and starting points

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee and tea (session break)
09:30 - 11:45 Key challenges for exchange of learning resources - Group discussions facilitated by Airina Volungeviciene, Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning Association

Method: Learning cafe - change tables after 30 mins, document story on the table

• Set up tables (at least one for each focus area), document discussions
• Document and group challenges
• After 30 minutes: rotate tables, explain to new group
• For each important challenge, write a card / statement (metaplan)
   

Intended outcome

• List of challenges regarding collaboration, pedagogy, technical, internationalization/culture, legal / policy

11:45 - 13:00 10 statements that will change the OER agenda in the

 Nordic and Baltic countries, facilitation: Tore Hoel, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

Method: Seperate tables (5 -6 persons)

• Each (topic) table to come up with 5 ranked statements (30 mins)
• Present ranking
• Which 10 overall statements, which topic recommendations?

Intended outcome:

• Initial list of 10 recommendations
• Additional topic centered recommendation lists

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Sense-making and negotiations - Faciliation: Erlend Øverby, Karde AS and Christian Dalsgaard, Aarhus University

method: Again by small groups, presenting and merging in the end

• What are the main steps to achieve the recommendations?
• What is the inteded future status?

• Build a future scenario - how would the perfect nordic baltic OER landscape be? 
• Which steps to achieve this?

Intended outcome

• Future scenario
• Step by step plan to achieve this

15:00 - 15:15 Refreshments

15:15 - 16:00 Committing to common goals: Do we have a OER Declaration and what do we do with it? Facilitation: Jan Pawlowski and Tore Hoel

• Who will do what? How can the steps be achieved? Who should receive the
• Final signing of the declaration

Invitations

Registrations

Background material

Please add

• http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/handle/10609/4869

Completed actions

• 2011-08-28 Erlend : Have sent email to nordic council, contact persons for K12 and HE, asked if they could provide a key-note speaker...
• 2011-08-23? Peter : Booket venue in Stockholm (Email on 2011-08-23)

10 point Nordic Manifesto on OER

And half an hour later CETIS' John Robertson came up with this:

An OER manifesto in twenty minutes

By JohnR | August 25, 2011
A brief rapid response to @Tore ’s request for a ten point manifesto on OER (& ok it was 25 minutes)

Andy Powell makes the key point: “@tore open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open - no need to mention ‘e’ or ‘r’ #nordlet” RE http://bit.ly/nwgIYE

But if I was writing a manifesto on OER it would start with/ cover some of this:

1. openness is a way of working / state of mind not a legal distinction
2. openness needs to be integrated into your way of working retrofitting is too expensive
3. value of open is potentially greater than the value of closed
4. open content affords new forms of scholarship and enterprise
5. stop having to ask permission: remove barriers with open licensing
6. use a common open license or don’t bother (lawyers read licences, users and machines don’t)
7. you need a good reason to keep publicly funded work closed
8. open content should allow you to build commercial services if you want
9. open content shifts the $ focus onto what is really valuable: expertise, support, and ‘accreditation’ [for various dftns]
10. open content has the potential to improve access to education (and consequently benefit society)

I’d also want to say something about

• openness does have costs - budget for them
• you don’t have to be open all the time with everything - mixed economies may be practical
• the transition to openness is unsettling
• the (re)development of new business models, organisations, and practices challenges existing business models, organisations, and practices

The above is written without appropriate sources and without consulting existing manifestos but as an exercise in trying to quickly capture what I’ve absorbed and thought working in the OER community. If I’ve reproduced your work without realising it please comment Doubtless a more considered version would look a bit different but as a discussion point in this amount of time that’s what I’d throw into the ring.

An OER manifesto in twenty minutes
Source : http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2011/08/25/an-oer-manifesto/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Author: R John Robertson

How shall we use this, it is great input for discussions...

• taking over some stuff in the program and introduction?
• Having a session with this as starting point?
• One session with this as a provocative input statement?

 Lets continue the discussion!

See the result of the brainstorming workshop at CEN WS-LT meeting in Stockholm November 13th

Meetings

• 2011-08-12 09:00-11:00 CET http://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/9cc1df-26906
• 2011-08-24 09:00-11:00 CET http://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/902b24-26918

Upcoming meetings

• 2011-08-30 11:00-12:00 CEThttp://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/6a0372-26983

Title

The Nordic Baltic Open Education Summit: Setting the Future Agenda for Open Educational Collaboration

Open Education means free access to educational resources - the Nordic Baltic Open Education Summit aims at setting the agenda for future education. Be part of the process and join the Baltic Nordic community to improve open education in our countries!

Key questions

The Nordic Baltic Open Education Summit brings together experts and practitioners from across the region to discuss the future of Open Education in our area!

• How to make collaboration work using shared and open educational resources?
• How can we improve collaboration and use synergies between the Nordic and Baltic countries?
• How can we develop sustainable models for Open Education?
• What are pedagogical and technical success factors?

These are some of the key questions for the Open Education Summit on Nov. 23-24 in Stockholm Sweden!

What is Open Education?

Open Education and the use of Open Educational Resources has been discussed frequently in the past decade. A lot of projects and initiatives have developed freely accessible resources and shared them - however, these initiatives are in many cases national or restricted to small communities. We have not yet reached the full potential.

• The goal of the conference is to develop  a future agenda to improve collaboration and use the full potential of Open Education and Open Educational Resources (OER). Some issues for the conferences are
  What are the main initiatives and successful projects?
• What are the main barriers and success factors?
• How can we succesfully combine our efforts?
• How to develop a future collaboration and research agenda?

The conference will discuss current successful (and not so successful) approaches - working in expert groups shall lead to a declaration on the future agenda of open education. The outcome of the conference will contribute to bring open education and Nordic-Baltic cooperation to the political and practical agenda. The conference is the final event of the Nordlet project.

 Key topics

The conference aims at identifying potentials for Open Educational Resources collaboration between the Nordic and Baltic countries. Some key topics to be discussed

• Collaboration: How to organize successful Nordic Baltic collaborations in Open Education, what are differences and barriers?
• Pedagogies: Why does Open Education and sharing work better in the Nordic-Baltic countries? How to embed OER in the curriculum and teaching activities?
• Technical aspects: How to make OER work on a technical level?
• Internationalization: How to deal with cultural and language differences?
• Legal and policy aspect: How to deal with IPR? How to get support on a policy level?

 Who should participate?

The main idea of the conference is to allow experience exchange and networking for open education / around the issue of open educational resources. The conference program allows active participation for creating future activities in the field. The program is suitable for

• Policy makers: How to shape future policies for open education / open educational resources?
• Teachers / professors: How to use existing open educational offers in schools and universities? What is needed to make re-use and sharing work?
• Researchers / technologists: What are current trends and how can they be utilized for future open education initiatives?
• Instructional designers: How can we embed open education / open educational practices in recent pedagogies?

The conference is open for all, just register to the conference organizer: jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi (SUBJECT: Nordlet registration)

Venue and Organization

Program

 The conference does not include long presentations - it is based on workshops and discourse to combine the expertise of the participants. We will have, however, high profile moderators and opinion leaders in  the workshops to share expertise, provoke discussions and develop the future agenda.

23 November 2011 - 17h - 20h
Theme: Preparing the common ground

17:00 - 17:20 Welcome by Jan Pawlowski, coordinator of NORDLET and University of Jyväskylä

17:20 - 19:00 My favourite -- NORDLET partners and participants present their favourite learning resource, repository or technology: Where did we come from and where are we heading? Moderator: Peter Karlberg, Skolverket, Sweden

Preparation: invited participants should prepare 3 slides

1. the best three "open" projects in my country / organization

2. What makes these proejcts special?

3. Which collaboration / sharing potentials do these projects have?

19:00 - 19:20 Refill of refreshments

19:20 - 20:00 I will sleep on this one - My case for a Nordic Baltic OER Declaration: Short presentations of the participants' input statements to prepare the ground for next day's meeting.

24 November 2011 - 9:00 - 16

Theme: Setting the Future Agenda for Open Educational Collaboration

9:00 - 10:00 The Global Case for Open Educational Resources - Keynote by Abel Caine, UNESCO (to be confirmed)

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee and tea

10:15 - 11:45 Key challenges for exchange of learning resources - Group discussions facilitated by Airina Volungeviciene, Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning Association

Preparation: invited participants should prepare 3 slides

1. the most important challenges of Open Education

2. Why these challenges occur in my country (explain what is the specific country situation)?

3. Are there potential solutions / recommendations to overcome the challenges?

11:45 - 13:00 10 statements that will change the OER agenda in the Nordic and Baltic countries, facilitation: Tore Hoel, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

Preparation: invited participants should prepare 3 slides

1. Policy recommendations to overcome the challenges

2. Technology recommendations to overcome the challenges

3. Defining 5 steps to achieve an Open Education Culture.

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Sense-making and negotiations - Faciliation: Erlend Øverby, Hypatia as and Christian Dalsgaard, Aarhus University

15:00 - 15:15 Refreshments

15:15 - 16:00 Committing to common goals: Do we have a OER Declaration and what do we do with it? Facilitation: Jan Pawlowski and Tore Hoel

About Nordlet:

The main goal of the NORDLET project is to build a Nordic-Baltic network and Community of Practice set to develop and harness a region-specific perspective on the use of technology in Learning, Education and Training. The common ground for the NORDLET Open Educational Community is to provide a single cross-sector, cross-country access point to educational resources within a dynamic network. Our focus is to promote sharing, re-use and enhancement of learning scenarios and learning resources across all levels of the educational systems of the Nordplus countries.

The NORDLET community will follow the Nordic tradition of creating open dynamic educational opportunities for all - providing networking and technology tools to enhance cooperation and communication across countries and sector boundaries to improve the exchange of educational materials, pedagogical and technological expertise

Preparations

 The main idea is to come up with a declaration for Nordic Baltic Education. For this, each invited speaker should provide a short input statement with 5-10 theses what we need to make Nordic Open Education work!

• Each country should build a delegation of at least 5 experts (3 invited guests per country)
• Each invited participant should prepare one input statement, 1-3 pages
• The statement should contain 5-10 theses about open education: what is necessary to make Nordic Baltic Open Education successful? This can have three focus issues: 1) policy / strategy, 2) technology, 3) pedagogy

Sessions

• Each session should have 3 short input statements
• After the input statement, the key questions should be discussed and summarized for the other groups
  

Session 1: Summary of key activites and initiatives in each country (groups organized by country) (23.11., 17-20)

The main idea is to present the (previously prepared) input statements

• What are the most important challenges in terms of 1) policy 2) technology 3) pedagogy
• To illustrate this: What are the most successfull OER initiatives for schools, in Higher Education, in the business domain? Present good practice cases - what made the initiative successful?
• What is "special" to OER in your country, what could you bring into a Nordic-Baltic initiative?

The main outcome will be:

• Creating an atmosphere for discourse
• Create a list of all theses for the declaration

Session 2: What are the key challenges? (groups organized by domain, ie schools, HE, business - or by focus, ie policy, technology, pedagogy)

• What keeps people away from sharing / using OER?
• What were the successful instruments / ideas to make people join and actively participate?
• What would you suggest for a common OER initiative in the Nordic Baltic countries
•  Outcome: at least 5 key challenges and 5 success factors per group -> to be translated to the key theses of the declaration

Session 3: Setting a common oer agenda

• How can a Nordic Baltic OER initiative be successful?
• Which are the main future topics and issues?
• How can we cooperate (social networks, conferences, common projects)
• Outcome: at least 5 prioritized actions per group
• Input for the OER Declaration: 10 items to make Nordic Baltic OER cooperation work  (10 each for policy / technology / pedagogy)?
  

Session 4: Commitments

• Define a concrete activity / project / action in which you contribute towards the Nordic Baltic OER initiative
• Describe which issue it addresses and how it contributes
• Provide a short commitment statement for the Nordlet website
• The OER Declaration: 10 items to make Nordic Baltic OER cooperation work

 The final output (report / website) should consist of the following issues:

• Good practices and initiatives across the Nordic Baltic area
• State of the art and future directions for OER
• Actions and commitments: Towards the next generation of OER cooperation

 Budget

 People we invite (status, agreements)

• Finland: Jan Pawlowski (agreed)
• Norway
• Sweden: Jan Hylén, Alastair Creelman

• Denmark
• Lituania
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Iceland (?)

Input from emails sent before our flash meeting:

• A document that could be useful input ? http://oerworkshop.weebly.com/uploads/4/1/3/4/4134458/2011.04.22.oer_guidelines_for_higher_education.v2.pdf

This is a short reminder of what we need to consider before we talk in a few days.

1) Who should open the meeting - the preferably would be:
   1) a minister or government official
   2) Head of Department at Nordisk Råd for education (http://www.norden.org/no/nordisk-ministerraad/ministerraad/nordisk-ministerraad-for-utdanning-og-forskning-mr-u)
   3) General Direktøren for skolverket or similar.
2) How should we organize the invitations: Emails, Facebook, Nordlet web site - direct contact to people we would like to see invited.
  - Norway (Tore / Erlend / Peter)
  - Sweden (Fredrik / Peter / Reijo)
  - Denmark ??
  - Finland (Jan)
  - Island ??
  - Balitcs ??
3) What are our success criteria ?
  - Agreed collaboration between nordic countries on a policy for OER on all governmental sponsored developed learning resources
  - Information about all potential OER activities within the Nordic region
  - 15 people attending
4) For each country - identify list of potential OER activities (I provided a list with links from Norway)
5) SPONSOR (drink and food for the evening and lunch)
  - BUDGET (what do we have of funds for travel/lodging/ of invited experts) - Maybe someone from UK?

Activities we could try to link to:
o http://www.nordvux.net/object/27666/kunskapstriangeln.htm
o http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/08/07/words-and-pictures-from-advances-in-open-systems-for-learning-resources-workshop/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=jisccetis

Initial email 1.August 2011

Dear friends, hopefully you have had plenty of time to enjoy the summer, and feel the warmth. Personally I have had several relaxing weeks, hardly checking any email or resembling to many activities that could be associated with work.

• - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  And accept my apologies for this rather lengthy email, and proposed list of work items at the end
  Please comment, and make suggestions/improvements sooner than later.
  Should we try a FlashMeeting early next week?
• - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

As you might recall we are a part of the NORDLET project. And one of the major tasks we set out to achieve was a common nordic framework for sharing, reusing, adapting and developing learning resources, based on the idea that there are some commonalities between the nordic countries that would make such collaboration easier.
As you know - we have not achieved much of this - primarily because our budget was cut by 2/3rds.
However we did promise to arrange some events, there have been nordlet events in Finland, Denmark and the baltics.

Two years ago Fredrik arranged a rather huge international Nordlet event in Umeå - co-located with the SC36 meeting.

As you might be aware of - Reijo have invited the CEN WSLT and CEN TC353 to Sweden for this fall meeting in October.
I spoke with Jan a few days before summer, and we thought it would be a great idea to have a NORDLET event co-located with the CEN WSLT and CEN TC353 meeting.
The CEN WSLT/TC353 are meeting 13,14 of October, and we suggest that we do a NORDLET event on the 11,12 of October, starting on the 11th at 17:00 with a reception.

During my and Jan's meeting we discussed and kind-of agreed to the following rough agenda.

Day1: Start of conference, OER -key challenges 17:00 - 19:30

• NORDLET: what have we learned from the NordLET events? 17:00-17:30
  • Finland, Denmark, Sweden ++
• Country delegations: 17:30 - 19:00
  • What could my country contribute
  • Develop a country position
• Presentation of the country position 19:00 - 19:30
• Social event - sponsored - 19:30 - 23:00
  • A pint a commitment/proposal

Day2: Conference: 09:00 - 17:00
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome (Nordic council)
09:15 - 10:00 Keynote (Ministerial type or similar)
10:00 - 10:30 coffe
10:30 - 12:00 Session 1:
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (sponsored)
13:00 - 14:30 Session 2
14:30 - 15:00 Coffe
15:00 - 16:30 Session 3
16:30 - 17:00 - Closure - commitments, action points, follow ups.

Sessions:

1) Requirement gathering,
2) state of the art, collaboration potential,
3) future collaboration and agenda setting

1) OER - and nordic use

• Problems
• Opportunities
• Common nordic pedagogy
• Summary of NordLet events (Baltic, Sweden, Denmark, Finland ++)

2) Good examples on Resources (OER?) in education

• Norwegian resources
  • NDLA (http://www.ndla.no/)
  • Naturfag senteret (Natural science) (http://www.naturfagsenteret.no/)
  • Matematikk senteret (Mathematics) (http://www.matematikk.org/)
  • Lese senter ? (reading) (http://lesesenteret.uis.no/)
• Sweden ?
• Denmark ?
• Finland ?
• Island ?
• Estland ?
• Lithuania (schools, universities, museums) 
• Latvia

3) What is neede to collaborate, reuse, adapt, adopt

• Commitments
• Action points
• How to move forward
• What is needed to harmonise nordic collaboration?
• What risks and challenges OER bring for Nordic - Baltic education institutions? 

SESSION ORGANISATION (90 minutes)

• 20 slides 20 seconds (app 7 minutes)
  • Challenges
  • Commitments
  • Follow up
• 6 presentations: 30 min panel discussion (90 minutes)

NORDLET REPORTING

• Summary of all events
• Summary of all final events

KEY PEOPLE FROM EACH COUNTRY

We should try to cover the following "functions" or agencies

• Ministry
• Funding organisation (multiplicator organisation)
• Educational institutions
• OER - experts
• University and School representative
• Educational researchers ?
• Pedagogical practitioners
• Associations
• Young research associations

PLANNING - WHAT WE NEED TO DO - ACTION LIST

• Announce the event (all)
• Invite key-note speakers (all)
  • Nordic council (Welcome) (Peter/Jan)
  • Swedish ministry (Key note) (Peter/Jan)
  • UNESCO (Jan)
• Venue (Peter/Fredrik/Reijo)
• Invite presentations (all)
• Invite stake-holders (government/Educational department etc.) (Peter/Jan)
• Use of Nordlet website (All)
• Production of program (All)