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REPORTING ON THE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS OF THE 2019 RECOMMENDATION ON OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) page 1 / 25 General Information (520) Country (9595) Type: (S/text-short) Estonia Organization(s) or entity(s) responsible for the preparation of the report (9596) Type: (S/text-short) Estonian National Commission for UNESCO Officially designated contact person and institution (9597) Type: (S/text-short) Maarja Tinn, Estonian National Commission for UNESCO Name(s) of designated official(s) certifying the report (9598) Type: (S/text-short) Kerli Gutman Brief description of the consultation process established for the preparation of the report (9599) Type: (T/text-long) The consultation process was coordinated by the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO. The implementation of the recommendation is divided between the Ministry of Education and Research, and partners from Tallinn University. The report is a consolidated outcome of the answers provided by the officials in the respective organisations. page 2 / 25 page 3 / 25 General (456) Has the 2019 Recommendation on OER been promoted and shared with appropriate ministries and institutions? (7572) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details. (7573) Type: (T/text-long) In September 2022, an invitation was received to participate in the workshop of Regional Consultation on the OER Recommendation. But idea of OER has a longer history in Estonia. E-koolikott/eSchoolbag (https://e-koolikott.ee/et ) was created in 2015 and it is a nationally managed portal of digital learning materials. The purpose of this platform is to make it easier to find and use learning materials.In 2020, the eSchoolbag was licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (before that it used multiple licenses) and the purpose of the change was to bring the idea and functions of the eSchoolbag into line with copyright protection requirements. page 4 / 25  Has the 2019 Recommendation on OER been translated into national language(s) (if applicable)? (7574) Type: (L/list-radio) Yes A3 If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7575) Type: (T/text-long) The text has been translated into Estonian and is available at the webpage of the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO. https://unesco.ee/public/Recommendation_on_Open_Educational_Resources_OER_et_korr_C_REV.pdf page 5 / 25 Building capacity of stakeholders to create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute OER (457) Have there been awareness raising activities on the benefits of OER organized or foreseen to be organized by end of 2023 in your country? (ref.: (i)11.(a), (c)) (7589) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7590) Type: (T/text-long) Estonia's lifelong learning strategy 2020 (https://www.haridusfoorum.ee/images/haridusstrateegia/Eesti_elukestva_oppe_strateegia_loplik.pdf) aimed to ensure the availability of digital learning materials that support the achievement of the goals and learning outcomes set in the curriculum of elementary schools, upper secondary schools and vocational education institutions. At the same time it is important as much as possible to make them available under a Creative Commons license, which allows "to reuse, distribute and also develop the created material". During the period 2014-2020 activities regarding OER and creative commons licenses were handled by the national Education Information Technology Foundation (HITSA) and competence center for education SA Innove. The largest OER development project Digiõppevaramu (digital learning resources) was procured by the Ministry of Education and implemented by Tallinn University in 2017 - 2018, it resulted with more than 6000 new original Open Educational Resources in H5P format and covered the whole national curriculum for upper-secondary schools in all subject areas expect languages. This project also involved several activities for promoting new OERs among teachers and school leaders. Education Strategy 2021-2035 (there is also version of it in English: https://www.hm.ee/ministeerium- uudised-ja-kontakt/ministeerium/strateegilised-alusdokumendid-ja-programmid#haridusvaldkonna-are ) sets the expectation that Estonia will have an open educational space allowing for personalized learning. page 6 / 25  Have capacity building programmes on how to use/re-use, adapt and redistribute OER as well as related digital skills taken place? (ref.: (i), 11.(b), (e),(f)) (7591) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (9600) Type: (T/text-long) Until the end of 2023, the development and training activities concerning Estonian OER portal eSchoolbag are supported by legislations in order to achieve the goals of European Social Fund's activity "Modern and innovative learning materials development and deployment". The Estonian national portal for OER is called E-koolikott/eSchoolbag (https://e-koolikott.ee/), it has been developed by NetGroup since 2015 in cooperation with the Centre of Educational Technology, Tallinn University. The eSchoolbag is a portal for creating, publishing and distributing digital OERs. The eSchoolbag contains learning resources for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. There are also study materials to diversify vocational education and youth work. eSchoolbag platform does not require login, all resources are accessible without authentication. The user account is required only for adding or editing learning resources to the portal, but anyone can create a user account with his/her educational ID. The portal features also an integrated learning resource authoring tool called Sisuloome (“content creator” in Estonian: https://sisuloome.e-koolikott.ee/ ). It is an open source platform (based on Drupal CMS) for developing interactive learning resources using more than 40 H5P templates, no need for coding or other technical skills. In 2020, all 15.000+ interactive learning resources stored in the eSchoolbag were re-licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://www.innove.ee/blogi/avatud-oppematerjalide-idee-muudab- eesti-hariduse-mitmekesisemaks-ja-vordsemaks/). This is an open content license that applies to the files and content descriptions uploaded to eSchoolbag. If the author wants to establish a different license for the material (such as commercial e-textbooks released by publishers), they can create the materials on other platforms and share them with a link in the eSchoolbag. All activities concerning eSchoolbag are directed to teachers for building their capacity/know how how to create, access, re-use and redistribute learning materials under open license. For example: since 2018 there are over 60 upper secondary school courses covered with digital learning materials that page 7 / 25 correspond to CC BY-SA 3.0 license (https://blogi.harno.ee/e-koolikotist-leiad-digioppevaramu- gumnaasiumile/); In 2020 and 2021 there were two contests for teachers of general and vocational education to create and add learning materials to eSchoolbag (https://www.innove.ee/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E- koolikoti-%C3%B5ppevara-konkursi-statuut.pdf); Within this legislation framework (European Social Fund's activity "Modern and innovative learning materials development and deployment" ) we would like to highlight the following actions: Shared use of learning materials KLASS+ that is intended for different schools and Measure: Digital learning materials - smart learning that is intended for creators of learning materials. All results (learning materials) must be published in the eSchoolbag (for example: https://e- koolikott.ee/et/search?lang=est&minAdded=2009&maxAdded=2023&tag=nutikas%20%C3%B5pe ); There have also been several seminars and training sessions for teachers on how to use/re-use, adapt and redistribute OER as well as how to develop the related digital skills (for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk6LmBupPc&t=621s ). Are there existing national or institutional OER repositories and/or plans to establish such repositories by end of 2023? (ref.: (i),11.(d)) (7593) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7594) Type: (T/text-long) The Estonian national portal for OER is called E-koolikott/eSchoolbag (https://e-koolikott.ee/), it has been developed by NetGroup since 2015 in cooperation with the Centre of Educational Technology, Tallinn University. The eSchoolbag is a portal for creating, publishing and distributing digital OERs. The eSchoolbag contains learning resources for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. eSchoolbag is the official national OER repository, all funded projects that create OERs are supposed to publish the created learning resources there. It is hosted by the Ministry of Education & Research. page 8 / 25  Have there been capacity building interventions focused on the use and/ or development of OER repositories and tools and/or are there such interventions foreseen by end of 2023? (ref.: ( i),11,(d), (b)) (7595) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes page 9 / 25  If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant (7596) Type: (T/text-long) All activities concerning eSchoolbag are directed to teachers for building their capacity/know how how to create, access, re-use and redistribute learning materials under open license. For example: since 2018 there are over 60 upper secondary school courses covered with digital learning materials that correspond to CC BY-SA 3.0 licence (https://blogi.harno.ee/e-koolikotist-leiad-digioppevaramu- gumnaasiumile/); In 2020 and 2021 there were two contests for teachers of general and vocational education to create and add learning materials to E-school bag (https://www.innove.ee/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E- koolikoti-%C3%B5ppevara-konkursi-statuut.pdf); Within this legislation framework (European Social Fund's activity "Modern and innovative learning materials development and deployment" ) We would like to highlight the following actions: Shared use of learning materials KLASS+ that is intended for different schools and Measure: Digital learning materials - smart learning that is intended for creators of learning materials. All results (learning materials) must be published in the eSchoolbag (for example:https://e- koolikott.ee/et/search?lang=est&minAdded=2009&maxAdded=2023&tag=nutikas%20%C3%B5pe ); There have also been several seminars and training sessions for teachers on how to use/re-use, adapt and redistribute OER as well as how to develop related digital skills (for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk6LmBupPc&t=621s ); Instructional materials have also been prepared (for example https://projektid.edu.ee/display/koolikott/Sisuloome+juhend and https://oppevara.edu.ee/kvaliteet/?_ga=2.7 6642837.1417720703.1588534086-1482967150.1586958748#sissejuhatus ) and self-assessment tool for the users on eSchoolbag is planned to develop by the end of 2023. page 10 / 25 Developing Supportive Policy (458) Is there a policy at national and/or institutional level(s) that foresees that educational resources are developed using public funds and made available as open educational resources? (ref.: (ii), 12, (a)) (7576) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7577) Type: (T/text-long) The majority of educational resources that are developed within legislation framework concerning European Social Fund's activity "Modern and innovative learning materials development and deployment" are made available as open educational resources (https://www.hm.ee/ministeerium-uudised-ja-kontakt/tehnoloogilise-arengu-juhtimine/digipoore-ja- digitaliseerimine) page 11 / 25 How do policies and existing frameworks in place at national and/or institutional level(s) provide incentives for stakeholders (e.g. teachers, learners, researchers) to use/re-use/ adapt and redistribute OER, including for professional and academic merit? (ref.: (ii),12, (b), (c), (d),(f)) Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7578) Type: (T/text-long) For example, since 2018 there are over 60 upper secondary school courses covered with digital learning materials that correspond to CC BY-SA 3.0 licence (https://blogi.harno.ee/e-koolikotist-leiad- digioppevaramu-gumnaasiumile/). There have also been several teaching materials competitions for teachers; copyright seminars, as well as opportunities for creating digital learning materials (https://projektid.edu.ee/display/koolikott/Sisuloome+juhend ) - all this is intended to provide support on how to use/re-use, adapt and redistribute OER as well to develop related digital skills. page 12 / 25 How do procurement models in place at national and/or institutional level(s) provide incentives for governmental bodies and institutions to support OER use/re-use/ adaptation and/or redistribution OER? (ref.: (ii),12, (b), (c), (d),(f)) Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7580) Type: (T/text-long) For example Measure: Shared use of learning materials KLASS+ goal is to guide and encourage educational institutions to implement the curriculum in a new way, while supporting educational institutions in the competence and social development of each learner, entrepreneurship and digital development in the implementation of the learning approach and innovative educational resource sharing arrangements. And Measure: Digital learning materials - smart learning is given for the development of digital educational software and making it available to all Estonian educational institutions or to make the existing solution available to all Estonian educational institutions free of charge (forever or for a specified time period). Please see answers 13 and 17 for more details. page 13 / 25 To what extent have OER policies been embedded into national policy frameworks and strategies and aligned with other open policies and guiding principles such as those for Open Access, Open Data, Open Source Software and Open Science? (ref.: ( ii), 12, (e)) Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7582) Type: (T/text-long) Education Strategy 2021-2035 sets the expectation that Estonia will have an open educational space allowing for personalized learning. Kairi: The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has prepared the Estonian Digital State Development Plan, where the topic of open data is discussed https://www.mkm.ee/digiriik-ja- uhenduvus/digiuhiskondu-arevakava-2030. The open data is also available on the open data portal https://avaandmed.eesti.ee. Open data is for everyone to use, reuse and share, it can be used to launch commercial and non-profit ventures, conduct research and to make data-driven decisions. Open data portal gives everyone the opportunity to consume and visualize open data, it includes usage stories that are based on open data. OpenData API provides possibility to create, update and discard datasets. The advantage of the using OpenData Portal API is a process automation. API allows uploading datasets, adding/modifying metadata and improving data quality without any human interaction. More examples here: https://avaandmed.eesti.ee/api/dataset-docs/. The Estonian software company Net Group made its digital learning platform Schoolaby https://schoolaby.com/ freely accessible to all users on the basis of the European Union free use license, however, Net Group will remain the administrator of the EUPL licence. Free use of the software code means that the platform can be used and developed by all users worldwide. Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7583) Type: (T/text-long) https://schoolaby.com/ page 14 / 25  Have policies and/or guiding principles been developed with regard to privacy and data protection during the production and use of OER, OER infrastructure and related services? (ref.: (ii), 12, (h)) (7584) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (9601) Type: (T/text-long) Copyrights are regulated in Estonia by the Copyright Act (AutÕS) and in case of questions, you can contact the Estonian authors' association (https://www.eau.org/see-on-eau/). The first CC licenses based on the Estonian copyright law (version 3.0) were published in January 2011.Starting with version 4.0, Creative Commons intends to do away with license customization, or to do so to a limited extent, because the international license should be usable everywhere. page 15 / 25 Encouraging effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER (459) Are there OER in national languages? (ref.: (iii), 13. (b)) (7597) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7598) Type: (T/text-long) The eSchoolbag contains study materials for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. There are also study materials to diversify vocational education and youth work. eSchoolbag is intended for free use. In 2020, the eSchoolbag was licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Since 2018 there are over 60 upper secondary school courses covered with digital learning materials that correspond to CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. In 2022-2023 we update these original materials (under the name “Digiõppevaramu” project) both in terms of content and technology so that they can be used continuously and in a user-friendly way. page 16 / 25  Are there OER available for use in low/ no connectivity contexts? (ref.: (iii), 13. (a)) (7599) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7600) Type: (T/text-long) The eSchoolbag contains study materials for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. There are also study materials to diversify vocational education and youth work. eSchoolbag is intended for free use and there are no restrictions on the use of materials, but you have to log in to create materials - there are currently 7 different ways to log in. Users can modify and adapt many of the materials (as permitted by the license) and use them as they see fit. Many materials can also be downloaded. Have OER have been contextualized for local social, economic and cultural contexts? (ref.: (iii), 13.(b), (c), (d)) Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7601) Type: (T/text-long) The eSchoolbag contains study materials for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. Educational materials are metadataized according to the competences and themes set out in the national curriculum. One also needs to add metadata and keywords that reveal the content and specify what type of material it is. page 17 / 25 Have quality assurance criteria for OER, based on principles of learning excellence, equity and inclusion, been developed and/or adapted? (ref.: (iii), 13. (f)) Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant (7603) Type: (T/text-long) The eSchoolbag contains study materials for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. There are also study materials to diversify vocational education and youth work. Educational materials are metadataized according to the competences and themes set out in the national curriculum. eSchoolbag is intended for free use to everybody everywhere. One of the quality mechanisms used in eSchoolbag, is that general education study materials that are in there are reviewed and given feedback by experts in the respective subject areas. Also, a self-assessment tool for the users on eSchoolbag is planned to develop by the end of 2023. Kairi:A guide to creating high-quality digital materials has been prepared in 2014/2015. It will be renewed in 2023. This guide brings together general guidelines on the content, technical execution, formalisation and sharing of digital learning materials and describes different types of learning materials with short descriptions of use. The aim of the guide is to support the authors of educational materials in the preparation of digital educational materials, the use of existing materials, and to provide guidelines for sharing both new and existing materials. The guide is intended for teachers of all levels of school and early childhood education in general education schools and for teachers of vocational and higher education institutions. In terms of content, the materials created by these target groups are very different, but the quality requirements of digital learning materials for their creation are similar. page 18 / 25 Have studies and/or research on OER development been conducted and/or are planned to be conducted by end of 2023 at the national and institutional level? (ref.: (iii),13.(e)) Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7605) Type: (T/text-long) Eduflex https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/84b0b7d6-db8e-445b-9c79-b4e8f4d7bf6a and TÜ Digiefekt https://digiefekt.ut.ee/. https://opleht.ee/2022/11/e-koolikotiga-voi-e-koolikotita-kuidas-toetada-opetajat-digioppevara-jagamisel/ page 19 / 25 Nurturing the creation of sustainability models of OER (460) Have OER sustainability models (in particular those that foresee that the cost of accessing educational materials is not shifted to individual educators and students) been developed and/or are foreseen to be developed by end of 2023? (ref.: (iv), 14, (a), (b), (c), (d)) (7606) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7607) Type: (T/text-long) The eSchoolbag is Estonian national portal for digital learning materials (https://e-koolikott.ee/et) and is intended for free use to everybody everywhere. Have mechanisms to encourage feedback from stakeholders and constant improvement of OER been established? (ref.: (iv), 14, (f)) (7608) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes page 20 / 25  If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7609) Type: (T/text-long) Since 2018 there are over 60 upper secondary school courses covered with digital learning materials that correspond to CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. In 2022-2023 we update these original materials (under the name “Digiõppevaramu” project) both in terms of content and technology so that they can be used continuously and in a user-friendly way. One of the quality mechanisms used in eSchoolbag, is that general education study materials that are in there are reviewed and given feedback by experts in the respective subject areas. These experts also give written reports or reviews about their subject area and make recommendations that the portal owner could consider, both technologically and substantively. page 21 / 25 Promoting and reinforcing international cooperation (461) Has your country and/or institutions in your country signed agreements and/or other collaborative mechanisms, including for funding to co-develop and/or share OER through inter- institutional, national, regional and/or international cooperation? (ref.: ( iv), 14, (g)); (v),15 (a) (b), (d), (e), (f)) (7610) Type: (Y/yes-no) No [X] If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7611) Type: (T/text-long) Insufficient knowledge to answer Have specific clauses related to OER been incorporated, where appropriate, in international agreements concerned with cooperation in the field of education? (ref.: ( v), 15, (d)) (7612) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes page 22 / 25  If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7613) Type: (T/text-long) The first CC licenses based on the Estonian copyright law (version 3.0) were published in January 2011.Starting with version 4.0, Creative Commons intends to do away with license customization, or to do so to a limited extent, because the international license should be usable everywhere. Are there peer networks that share OER, based on areas such as subject matter, language, institutions, regions and level of education at local, institutional, national, regional, and/or international level currently active? (ref.: ( v), 15, c)) (7614) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7615) Type: (T/text-long) The eSchoolbag contains study materials for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. There are also study materials to diversify vocational education and youth work. eSchoolbag is intended for free use. One of the quality mechanisms used in eSchoolbag, is that general education study materials that are in there are reviewed and given feedback by experts in the respective subject areas. These experts also give written reports or reviews about their subject area and make recommendations that the portal owner could consider, both technologically and substantively. It is also expected that these experts will present the eSchoolbag and its possibilities in their subject areas to teachers. page 23 / 25 Miscellaneous (462) Has your country used OER to meet the educational challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic? (7699) Type: (Y/yes-no) Yes If yes, please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7700) Type: (T/text-long) The eSchoolbag contains study materials for preschools, general education schools and vocational schools. There are also study materials to diversify a vocational education and youth work. eSchoolbag is intended for free use. Please enter below any other information or achievements you would like to share regarding your country’s implementation of the 2019 Recommendation on OER. Please provide details and hyperlinks as relevant. (7701) Type: (T/text-long) page 24 / 25 page 25 / 25