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Webinar on Inclusion of Learners with Disabilities in Open and Distance Learning in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
The webinar aims to present the updated UNESCO’s Learning for All: Guidelines on the Inclusion of Learners with Disabilities in Open and Distance Learning in Russian, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz Languages.
Based on the guidelines, and the of the first webinar, the organizers will present an overview of national Open Educational Resources (OER), Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and Open Access (OA) solutions for governments, educational institutions, teachers, and curriculum developers.
Adapted checklists will provide an international standard for quick and efficient evaluation of any innovations and solutions offered to learners with disabilities.
Webinar participants: developers, distance learning practitioners as well as quality assurance and recognition bodies in developing open educational platforms, processes, courses, examinations to address the needs of all users.
Check-lists on the Inclusion of Learners with Disabilities in Open and Distance Learning (Central Asian languages)
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching, and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under the copyright that has been released under an open license, that permits no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.
The open license refers to a license that respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and provides permissions granting the public the right to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt, and redistribute educational materials.
The Recommendation on OER, adopted by UNESCO’s General Conference at its 40th session on 25 November 2019, is the first international normative instrument to embrace the field of openly licensed educational materials and technologies in education.
To support Member States implementation of the 2019 Recommendation on OER, UNESCO established the OER Dynamic Coalition.
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