arabic oer and open book project

Ismail Mekkaoui AlaouiPhysics Department

Cadi Ayyad University MarrakechMorocco

ARABIC OER AND OPEN BOOK PROJECT.

Open Education DayMOROCCO OER STRATEGY FORUM

Cadi Ayyad University, December 6th, 2016

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OEROpen Educational Resources

OCWOpen Courseware

MOOCMassive Open Online Course

Open Education

OAOpen Access Publishing

OER is part of the Open Movement (0pen software, open data, open design, etc,) which emerged in the 20th century.

OER made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT's Open Courseware initiative.

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What is Arabic OER ?

It is a group of scientists, experts, and consultants which was one of the fruits of a:

Sponsored by:The US State Department, The Arab League, and ALECSO

PROFESSIONAL ON-DEMAND EXCHANGE PROGRAMPROMOTING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA March 1st – March 21st 2014

Arranged by: World Learning Exchange and Training Unit

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األمريكية الخارجي+ة وزارة Project مشروعOpen Book عام بدايات ف++ي بدأ الذي ،4201 ،

العربية الدول جامع++ة م++ع Arab بالشراك++ةLeague , والعلوم للتربي+ة العربي+ة والمنظم+ة ،

(, ALECSO والثقاف+++ة و ،World Learning .() Professional Fellows On-Demandوبرنام+ج (

الخارجية لوزارة US Department of التاب++عStates االتجاه ثنائي المهني للتبادل برنامج .هو

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AlgeriaEgyptJordanLebanonMoroccoPalestineQatarSaudi ArabiaSomaliaSudanTunisiaYemenUSA

Scientists, Expert /consultants to ALECSO for the Open Book project from:

In addition to Mary Lou Forward of The Open Education Consortium

and Paul Stacey of Creative Commons

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Open Book project targets Arab World

Open Education in the Arab World is still in an initial phase

The project consists of a web system (Platform) which allows uploading and downloading of different learning materials by Instructors and Students.

Videos, audio lessons, animated learning materials, documents and presentations will be freely used and shared.

The platform will be fully localized for Arabic audience and will cover different curricula for K-12 and undergraduate students.

The Goal of the Open Book/OER project

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The focus of the Open Book/OER project for the Arab World should be on STEM (Sciences Technology Engineering Maths) subjects.

The project have 4 years.

the first two years focused on raising awareness of OER among faculty and policy makers, translation of existing OER and production of OER from the Arab World,

The second two years will focus on building the project and evaluation of impact.

Overall goal of the program: Regional production and dissemination of educational materials in support of STEM

Details of the Open Book/OER project

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1. Awareness-raising Activitiesa. Support for faculty workshops and regional conference on

OER to include a training of trainers; b. Development of guides for both users and developers of OER;c. Assess what translated OER STEM resources are needed,

and/or already exist across region.2. Proof of Concept Activities

a. Translation of 8 courses into Arabic (selection of courses to be determined);

b. Encourage Contributions of OER from faculty at universities across the region

c. Establish repositories where OER will be stored.

Recommended activities for the first two years.

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1. Continuation of awareness-raising activities as needed;1.Additional translations of OER into Arabic, exploration of a crowd-sourced translation model; 2.Broadening OER contributions of faculty from the region;3.Encouraging policy development at national levels;4.Co-develop curricula/courses among faculty from universities in the region, to be released as OER;5.Link regional OER repositories into an overall portal for the whole MENA region6.Impact studies based on success criteria defined during the first two years.

Recommended activities for years 3 and 4 include:

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Open Education Resources (OER) MENAhttps://www.linkedin.com/groups/OER-MENA-8207810/about

http://www.alecso.org/open_book_project/

For more Information

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- Arab Forum for Scientific Research and Sustainable Development, Sharjah, UAE. December 2014

- UNESCO-ALECSO Inception Meeting on ‘ICT CFT: Contextualization Harnessing OER’ 17 -18 August, 2015 Tunis, Tunisia

Activities and Meetings

- Arab Forum for Scientific Research and Sustainable Development, Cairo, Egypt. 16-18 December 2016

- Awareness-raising activities in many MENA Universities- Translations of a book Genetics into Arabic

- UNESCO Chair- Arabic OER Univ of Sousse, Tunisia

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Thank You For Your AttentionBeautiful Sun Set on the Atlas Mountains

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