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"Single-Entry Window" as a Platform
for an OpenCourseWare Repository
Alexey ABRAMOV, Maria BULAKINA, Alexey SIGALOV,
State Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications
"INFORMIKA", Russian Federation,
Svetlana KNYAZEVA, UNESCO IITE
Joint Pilot Project of
INFORMIKA and UNESCO IITE
INFORMIKA:
Portal "Single-Entry Window"
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UNESCO IITE:
Project "Open
Educational Resources"
OpenCourseWare (OCW) Repository –
Teaching Materials with Open Licenses
for Higher Education
UNESCO IITE OER Project
Since 2010 IITE has been implementing a project on Open
Educational Resources in non-English-speaking countries.
Objectives
Advocating the OER movement and building the capacity in production,
sharing and use of OER in UNESCO Member States, in particular, in the
countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Baltic States
and other non-English-speaking countries.
Approach
The project activities build on the results of examination of the needs,
capacities, opportunities and challenges for the production and use of OER
in the selected countries. Emphasis is placed on the exploration and
dissemination of best practices, raising awareness of open licenses and
development of recommendations for a wider use of OER in educational
practice.
OER in Non-English-Speaking Countries
At its initial stage the project was focused on educational content in the
Russian language and in national languages and involved most CIS and
Baltic States.
The state-of-the-art, challenges and prospects for the development of OER
were studied in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, the
Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, as well as in Latvia and
Lithuania.
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The surveys covered national policy for ICTs in
education with a focus on OER-related issues,
the current state of advancement of educational
content, major achievements, challenges, and
obstacles, including technological and IPR
aspects.
OER in Non-English-Speaking Countries
The scope of the project expanded to include Japan, People’s Republic of
China, Brazil, Turkey and Vietnam. The surveys provided a further insight
into the OER-related patterns in various non-English-speaking countries.
Case studies on OER in Brazil, China, Lithuania and Russia were
published. Several other case studies are being prepared for publication.
In total, surveys in 16 non-English speaking countries have been
completed, several more are in progress.
Publications
Information brochure "Open Educational Resources
in Non-English-Speaking Countries".
Analytical report "The Use of Creative
Commons Licenses in the Russian Federation".
Survey "Educational Portals
and Open Educational
Resources in the Russian
Federation".
Policy briefs:
"Global trends in the
development and use of
open educational resources
to reform educational
practices";
"Open educational
resources and intellectual
property rights".
Online training course
"Open Educational Resources"
IITE has launched a new training course on the creation and use of open
educational resources for teachers of higher and secondary schools.
http://lms.iite.unesco.org
IITE and INFORMIKA at UNESCO World
Open Educational Resources Congress
The 2012 World Open Educational Resources Congress
was held on June 20-22, 2012 at the UNESCO
Headquarters in Paris, France.
IITE and INFORMIKA delegations took part in the Congress
and the Open Seminar and Exhibition.
Portal "Single Entry Window
to Educational Resouces"
• Project commissioned by the Ministry of Education and
Science of the Russian Federation (2005 - …).
• Goal - integration of educational resources in a single
information system.
• Main components:
- Catalogue of Internet resources – metadata of over 56 000
resources.
- Digital Library – more than 30 000 resources.
http://window.edu.ru
"Single-Entry Window":
Digital Library
 Digital library includes over 30 thousand full-text
electronic versions of educational and instructional
materials:
 textbooks and manuals;
 lecture notes;
 laboratory courses;
 problem books;
 instructional guidelines;
 curricula;
 tests;
 monographs;
 reference books.
"Single-Entry Window":
Digital Library
Sources of electronic library materials
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Universities and higher education institutions;
Faculties, departments, research centers of universities;
Institutes of the Academy of Sciences;
Publishers, journal editors;
Non-profit organizations.
In total more than 300 organizations.
Rules of publication in the Digital Library
“Single-Entry Window”
• Authors submit their materials to the Portal Editorial Board for
publication in open access.
• Electronic materials published in open access at the websites of their
authors/owners can be included in the Digital Library upon receiving a
consent of the authors/owners.
• The materials should be designed for educational purposes (not for
commercial purposes).
• Printed books are not converted to the digital format by Portal Editorial
Board.
• The Library does not contain printed books digitized and published in
open access without receiving the consent of their authors/owners.
• The relations with the organizations providing their materials are
regulated by the agreements on transfer of non-exclusive rights.
• Permission for publication of materials are requested by e-mail from
authors and officials (chairs, heads of departments, project
coordinators).
Open Digital Libraries of
Higher Education Institutions
Content – digital versions of textbooks published at the institutions (pdf,
doc):
• Textbooks and instructional guidelines
• Collections of problems, assignments and tests; learning activities
• Instructional guidelines for laboratory courses, term papers and
graduation theses
• Educational and instructional complexes of disciplines
• Monographs
• Collections of papers and proceedings
Types of digital libraries:
• Databases with options of attribute-context search using the
descriptions of resources.
• “Static” lists with links to full-text documents.
Several dozens of large-scale digital libraries.
Examples of open digital libraries
of higher education institutes
Open resources at the websites of chairs and
personal pages of tutors
• Static web pages with collection of links to resources (pdf,
doc, zip, etc.).
• Various forms of presentation even within one web page.
• Descriptions of resources are often unavailable.
• Digital versions of printed books and sometimes
unpublished materials – presentation of lecture materials,
course curricula, assignments, tests and examination
questions.
Examples of materials at the web sites
of chairs, departments, teachers
Agreements with the organizations
providing their materials
Agreements on transfer of nonexclusive rights.
“Single-Entry Window” statistics
Dynamics of visits to the portal:
40-70 thousand users per day.
“Single-Entry Window” Portal: Lessons Learnt
• The information system containing resources for all levels of
education commissioned by the Ministry of Education had been
designed and successfully functioning.
• State Institute of Information Technologies INFORMIKA is the head
organization that is in charge of portal design, hosting, technical
maintenance, information support.
• Information is provided by hundreds of organizations (higher
education institutions, research institutes, further training institutions,
publishing houses, noncommercial and commercial organizations)
and thousands of individual educators.
• The portal integrates resources designed for various purposes –
developed both purposefully for the portal and published in open
access on the Internet.
• Portal resources are in high demand:
- about 40-70 thousand visitors per day;
- “total digital circulation” of the portal materials – above 5 million
copies per year.
• 2008 – RF Government Prize in the field of education.
Digital Library of the “Single-Entry Window”
Portal: problems and challenges
• Approaches to content management of the Library are not
in full compliance with the Russian legislation in force (Civil
Code, Part IV).
• Drafting and signing of individual contracts with each
author is not feasible for the Editorial Board of the Portal,
as the Library includes over 30 thousand resources.
• There is no certainty about the ways of use of the
resources by the users.
• The Library cannot be positioned as a digital library system
that should be used by higher education institutions in
accordance with the federal education standards.
HEIs and digital libraries:
President’s opinion (2010)
• Dmitry Medvedev: “Digital libraries of
universities should be open for everybody”
“As to digital libraries, every university locks
its library. If I am not a student or a teacher
of a particular university, I often cannot have
access to it. These libraries are our national
asset, and it is unfair that universities do not
allow access to them“ –
President’s speech at the joint meeting of
the State Council of the Russian Federation
and the Commission for Modernization and
Technological Development of the Economy
on the development of professional
education in the Russian Federation
(August 2010)
OER in Russia: conclusions
• Are the Russian resources available in open access the proper
“Open Educational Resources” that comply with UNESCO
definition? The answer in many cases is NOT.
• The quality of Russian educational resources available in open
access is at the level of world standards of OER and those designed
for general education are probably even of higher quality than
average world level.
• Russian higher education institutions are lagging behind their
foreign counterparts in promoting open access to their educational
resources (educational courses).
• Most Russian repositories of open educational resources were set
up under state order.
• The open licenses that are widely used worldwide are not taken into
account by the acting Russian legislation on author rights and are
merely used in education.
International practice: Open Educational
Resources and Creative Commons licenses
http://creativecommons.org
ИРИО, http://creativecommons.ru
UNESCO OER Project, http://unesco.org,
UNESCO IITE, http://iite.unesco.org/
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), http://ocw.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
OpenCourseWare Consortium,
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
Creative Commons (CC) licenses
BY - «Attribution»
SA - «Share Alike»
NC - «Non Commercial use»
ND - «No Derivatives»
The most permissible license – CC BY
The most prohibitive license – СС BY-NC-ND
Joint Pilot Project of
INFORMIKA and UNESCO IITE
INFORMIKA:
Portal "Single-Entry Window"
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UNESCO IITE:
Project "Open
Educational Resources"
OpenCourseWare (OCW) Repository –
Teaching Materials with Open Licenses
for Higher Education
OpenCourseWare (OCW) Repository
Setting up a repository of open-licensed educational
materials on the basis of the “Single-Entry Window” Portal:
• Using the system and software components of “Single-Entry
Window” Portal, hosting at INFORMIKA datacentre.
• Extended functions of the Portal: modification of the structure
of the database, metada, user and administrator interfaces;
upgrading of the application program software.
• Development of instructional materials for authors, uploading
demonstration and training materials for repository users, advise
to users.
• Disseminating information about the project to the research
and education community in Russia and CIS, promotion of the
OER movement.
OpenCourseWare (OCW) Repository
Content management and
maintenance of the repository
Ways of acquisition of educational materials for the
repository:
 Bulk download of the materials provided by higher education
institutions, chairs and departments - xml-conversion.
 Uploading the resources and metadata in online mode using the web
interface.
 “Licensing” the resources already uploaded to the “Single-Entry
Window” Portal (contacting authors/owners of the resources).
Information support:
 Authors: content management, amendments and updates through the
web interface.
 Editorial Board: checking metadata and uploaded materials;
moderating forums; advice to users.
Launch of the repository — September 2013.
Thank you for your attention!
Contacts:
State Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications
"INFORMIKA". St. Petersburg Branch
Alexey SIGALOV, [email protected]
UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
Svetlana KNYAZEVA, [email protected]
http://www.informika.ru
http://ru.iite.unesco.org