OER Dynamic Coalition Webinar on Inclusive and accessible OER

UNESCO is organizing a webinar on “Quality, Inclusive and equitable Open Educational Resources (OER)” on the International Day of Education.

The objective of the webinar is to raise awareness and share knowledge on the OER Recommendation Action Area 3 Encouraging effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER and to highlight innovative and inspiring initiatives and practices at institutional or national level.

The session will focus on accessibility and inclusion including multilingualism and will highlight the opening International Decade of Indigenous languages (IDIL 2022-2032) and the new Guidelines on the inclusion of learners with disabilities in open and distance learning (ODL).

Each speaker will address one of these kea questions:

1. How can collective efforts in the development of appropriate, local, multilingual OER can drive education and information in the opening International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032)?
2. How ODL and OER can be a game changer for education of PWD ?
3. How to enhance accessibility of OER and overcome the digital divide and connectivity issues in Francophone Africa ? The OER Dynamic Coalition was established further to the adoption of the UNESCO OER Recommendation by Member States at the 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference in November 2019.

As part of the implementation of the Dynamic Coalition’s activities, UNESCO has been providing a regular cycle of webinars to facilitate the sharing of expertise, knowledge and experience around the different action areas of the Recommendation and to highlight the cross-cutting themes of the Recommendation.

• Speakers include:
  • Ms Zeynep Varoglu, Programme Specialiste , UNESCO CI
  • Dr Irmgarda Kasinskaite, Programme Specialiste, UNESCO CI
  • Dr Dianne Chambers, Associate Professor, Notre Dame University Australia and Coordinator of Special and Inclusive Education
  • Dr. Alireza Darvishy, Professor at Institute of Mechatronic Systems (ZHAW)
  • Ms. Mona Laroussi, Director of the Francophonie Institution for Education and Training (IFEF)
• Registratin Link: https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_79bm8v8nSuWTolFqr8a3DA