Building Mongolia’s
Open Network for Education
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Z. Batbold :: DREAMIT.mn
D. Porter :: BCcampus.ca
* Batbold Zagdragchaa, DREAMIT.mn
* Project leader in Mongolia
* David Porter – BCcampus.ca
* Educational consultant to IDRC.ca and DREAMIT.mn
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* Mongolia is a rapidly developing economy
* With a small population (2.9M) divided almost
equally between the Ulaanbaatar (1.4M) and
rural centres across the vast countryside
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* Open government
* Open access research
* Open educational resources
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* National seminars on OER sponsored by DREAM IT and IDRC Canada
were held in Ulaanbaatar in October 2010 and September 2011
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* Making government information accessible
* Inviting participation through web-based access
* The project found that one-way information flow
was insufficient to promote citizen engagement
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* Publishing research openly using CC licenses
CC-BY-SA
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CC-BY-SA
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* Using OER with pre-school teachers and parents
http://www.davlagaa.mn
CC-BY-NC-SA
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Critical infrastructure for an open society
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* Focus-area 1: Identify
* Focus-area 2: Establish
partners for a Creative
Commons (CC) Mongolia
CC Mongolia Affiliate
organizational structure
* Participated in UNESCO IITE
* Design and develop CC
* Hosted organizational
* Create CC Mongolia video
* Sign MoU with Creative
and MUST workshop in April
2012
Mongolia Affiliate web site
meeting with potential
partners in July 2012
Commons by November 2012
* Expected date of completion:
* Identified and named
December 2012
partners for all CC Mongolia
Affiliate activities by
September 2012
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Building an Open Network for Education
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* Mongolia in the next 20 years?
Mindgolia
Minegolia
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ONE
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* Promoting public awareness of new demands
and a new vision for education
* Learning for knowledge-based economy
* Learning Nation
* Creating partnerships for a new model for
education in the 21st century
* Initiating new policies for 21st century
education support systems
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* World is changing
* Becoming more flat and open
* Internet and global knowledge
* Mongolian schools and universities have not
adapted to the changing world
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Innovation Through Technology
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* First Year Goals:
* Establishing the Creative Commons Mongolia Affiliate
* Cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science,
Academy of Science, Universities
* Developing public awareness of OER
* ONE.MN Portal: OER Directory (M)
* Workshops and media coverage
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*Six projects, goals for 2013:
*Mongolpedia: To develop and add contents
on http://mn.wikipedia.org
*ONE Academy: Localize 200 video lessons
of Khan Academy
*ONE Language: To create Mongolian online
dictionary – 2000 words
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*ONE Repository: Digitize 200 historical
documents
*ONE Thesis: All university students will be
required to upload their thesis and
dissertations
*ONE Library: National Open Access Library
– 500 books
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Learning for a knowledge-based economy
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www.one.mn
Facebook.com/onemongolia
Twitter.com/onemongolia
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