Open Education in Slovakia:
Current Status and Practices
Jan Gondol, Ph.D.
São Paulo, 2015-08-20

Open Education in Slovakia
• Open Government Partnership activities
• Things happening on the ground
• Examples of resources & their use

OGP Action Plan 2015
• Open Data -> Open Education
• Open Educational Resources
• Open Access

OER
• Existing resources
• Repositories
• Barriers -> Procurement -> Pilot -> ...

Open Access
• Repository
• Barriers -> Open Access (Required)
• Open Data (Voluntary)

High level vs. low level
• Policy not enough
• Top-down & bottom-up together
• You can start TODAY...

Dropbox...
• Centralized -> decentralized
• Simple, offline (useful!), mobile
• P2P rating

Internal wiki
• Re-work assignments: keeps history
• Linking
• Internal („copyright-safe“)

Wikipedia
• More useful than internal wiki
• Free plagiarism check
• Truly open education: build the commons

Open Textbook Library
• http://open.umn.edu/
• Developed with librarians
• Reviewed by faculty

OER commons
• https://www.oercommons.org/
• „Powerful findability“ (faceted search)
• Filter by grade, subject,...

TED talks
• TED & TEDx
• Lots of content in Portugese
• Crowdsourcing subtitles (assignment?)

From strategy to action
• Teach openly TODAY
• Open education: more than just resources
• Works with little technology

Thank you!
Jan Gondol, Ph.D.
gondol@gondol.sk
Twitter: @jangondol
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jangondol