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JÖRG PAREIGIS�@joergelp

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Finally OERs are everybody's business in the Swedish Higher Education system!

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JÖRG PAREIGIS�@joergelp

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Have Open Educational Resources finally arrived in Swedish Higher Education?

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Task 1 – Nov 2021 �Map + analyze the use of OER

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Task 2 – June 2022

National guidelines for Open Science, inkl OER.

identifying common goals + priorities, mapping roles + areas of responsibility, + defining the need for support and guidance

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Not prioritized

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Absence of goals, guidelines and strategies

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No specific authority designated for promoting, monitoring, and coordinating

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Lack of consistent collaboration between different stakeholders

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OER have untapped potential

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Slight increase in use but on very low level

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No national repository

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Very low knowledge about OER

what they are� how they can be used� opportunites of usage

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OER have untapped potential

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Covers six prioritized areas, to be fully developed in Sweden:

  • Open access to scholarly publications
  • Open access to research data
  • Open research methods
  • Open educational resources
  • Public engagement in science
  • Infrastructures supporting open science

https://bit.ly/os-swe

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Open educational resources

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Goals and priorties:

  • Policies and guidance for the production and use of OERs
  • OERs and their metadata are shared with open licences and, to the greatest extent possible, in accordance with FAIR principles, with the aim of promoting dissemination and reuse
  • Work on OERs at universities to be coordinated
  • Need for and prerequisites for a common platform for collecting and disseminating OERs to be investigated

Open educational resources

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6 members – varying expertise on OER/OEP

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Task

  • Draft proposals for recommendations for national coordination + long-term structure
  • Review incentives for educators to create and reuse OER
  • Investigate the barriers + follow National library’s work
  • Report to SUHFs Coordination Group for Open Science

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Working group for OER

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Goal for HEIs in Sweden:

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"To actively work towards creating a culture of sharing regarding educational resources by encouraging and promoting the creation, sharing, and use of open educational resources."

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Roadmap - HEIs should:

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  1. Begin in 2024 the work to provide relevant support functions, services, and infrastructure regarding OERs, in a resource-efficient manner that can meet the needs of teachers and students.
  2. By 2025 at the latest, develop goals, strategies, and guidelines for OERs.
  3. By 2025 at the latest, start educating and informing on how open licenses can enhance teachers' and students' ability to control and manage copyright protection for educational resources.
  4. By 2025 at the latest, begin providing resources for the creation and sharing of OERs, for example, through teachers’ workload planning or by offering project funding.
  5. By the end of 2026 at the latest, implement an incentive structure that promotes and values work with OERs, for example, in merit assessment.
  6. Actively collaborate with other HEIs and stakeholders, both nationally and internationally, in the work with OERs.

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JÖRG PAREIGIS�@joergelp

Photo by Jonathan Brinkhorst on Unsplash

Unless otherwise noted this work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International License.

Finally OERs are everybody's business in the Swedish Higher Education system!

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