 for Open Educational Resources Sustainability, which is a really important topic that I think we're all very interested to learn more about. And please do put your virtual hands together for any of our presenter today who is here with us. So thank you very much for joining us. Over to you now for the presentation. I will keep an eye on the chat. So please do say hello in the chat and post any questions. Over to you. Okay. Shall I start, Maryam? Yes, please. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Sorry, just I am seeing my screen. I couldn't see your name or your video camera because when I check my desktop. Okay. Thank you for the organizing the OER 23. I had a chance to participate in OER 10 in Cambridge. And now I had a chance to participate as an online in the OER 23. And for also, I would like to thank the organization Comité for accepting our scholarship application. And today I want to give information about our study, which is conducted with my doctoral students and her PhD thesis is a part of her PhD thesis about open education, so sustainability. In my presentation, my agenda like this. Okay. Okay. I have four basic topic is the research background, research purposes, methodology, finding and discussion. And as you know, UNESCO in its action plan for 2030 emphasize the increased access opportunities and should be supported by the needs to improve the quality and currents of the education and training and its declaration. And also, Okay. In another report of the UNESCO, again, it's calls on education institution provide equity, quality, inclusive and accessible resources for all in their own context in their 2021 report. And also, as you all know, the United Nation in 2015 announced the sustainable development calls and the quality education to provide inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all is intended in this sustainable development calls. There are 17 dimension in here, and especially the quality of the education is related to our topic. And the key concept emphasized by international, the well-known international institution in the call is point the OER, open educational resources. And as you know, OER has many advantages, especially it play a critical role in the emergency business education process. And these are the key concept emphasize the accessibility, the quality, quality education and lifelong learning are the key concept emphasized by the international institution. And so OER is an important in their international institution the highlighted point has OER has many potential. Although OER has a potential or first solution for this calls, but we know from the literature and from practice, OER has a and sustaining the problem. And sustainability, it has a face sustaining the problems especially in the long-term viability is problematic. And we need successful models to support and creation and the publication of the OERs. And most of the initiatives do not continue. So it is a sustainability. We can say it's a chronicle problem for OER initiatives. So from this, we thought that in our research study we should focus on the sustainability. And as why they define the OER sustainability as the continuation of the capabilities or strengths of OER projects to achieve their goals. And it has a two-dimension OER sustainability. The first dimension is the production and sharing of the content. The second one is the users content use and rails. So we also, we also the focus on the OER sustainability in this two-dimension. So in our, the big research, we have a three research question. And the first research question is related with the factors affecting sustainability. And we determined those factors from the systematic literature. And the second one, especially in this presentation is related with this second one. What strategies can ensure the sustainability of the OER source in higher education? And the third one, and how are these strategies developed for the sustainability of the OER in higher education reflected in the practice? So our focus in this presentation is the second research question. And just I want to give it basic information about the OER into Turkey in the methodology part. In Turkey, open education resource have three different open education resource attempts. The first one is the nationwide OER project. The second one is the institution-based OER projects and initiatives. And the third one is the individual attempts. For instance, the nationwide OER projects, as you can see, we have a Turkish academic of science. And it starts and this one, the oldest one, it's about 2009 or 10. We have a different kind of courses in this nationwide OER project. Some of the courses are translated from the MIT courses. Some of the courses are originally produced in the Turkey. So although we have this kind of platform in a nationwide and supported by the Turkish academic side, but it doesn't continue. Okay, we can access the course materials, but there's no update in this nationwide initiatives, OER initiatives. Another initiative in Turkey is the scientific and developed by the scientific and technological research council of the Turkey. So in this project, to be taxed, call for projects for the open education and resources. But unfortunately, after the first call, there is no other call about this program. And it's not continue. And we don't know about the first call projects results. So this project also doesn't continue. Another nationwide project is the your course platform we call as a Council of Higher Education in Turkey. During the COVID pandemic process, the Council of Higher Education opened all of the course materials of the open education faculty in Turkey. We have a full open education faculty in Turkey. And as you know, Anatolian University, Istanbul University and Atatürk University and Ankara University. And I am in the Atatürk University and we conduct the research in the context of Atatürk University. And okay, during the pandemic, this course portal or your platform is work a lot. But after that, some of the resources are not accessible now and it's not updateable. So it's not continue anymore. And we have some institution-based or your initiatives and Middle Technical University, the University, Ankara University and Atatürk University also it their own platform. And some kind of, beside this some kind of institutional or individual attempts about the open education research in Turkey. So I just, I want to give my, a little bit about the, my university context as you can see Scotland and the Turkey. And here is the northeast part of the Turkey and the Atatürk University is located and it was founded in 1957. And here is our university and this university is one of the biggest university in Turkey. Especially it has a really wide campus area about eight million school mentors. And also just I want to give us some kind of advertisement about our city. And here is the very famous Palandekan mountain and you can, it's the quality of the snow and stiffness of the slope and length of the trail and the best mountain for seeking. And also I want to make a such kind of advertising of my city. And it's very easy to reach this mountain and in five minutes you can reach from the university. And this is the just basic information. Okay, let's turn to the research. And in Atatürk University, we have a 20, 71, sorry, 71,000 on-campus students. And we have also 425,000 students and 100,000 students in open education faculty. And in research context in Atatürk University, we have different kind of over here initiatives. But basically in this research, we focused on academics, it's a MOOC platform of Atatürk University and open course wave platform of Atatürk University. And we have also three other initiatives, but it's very early stage now. One of them is the open book platform and open exhibition, e-exhibition, e-book and open scientific articles initiatives. Also we have three of them. So when it comes to the methodology of our research, we use a design-based research. And in this research, as you can see, we have a three cycle. In the first cycle, after it's completed, we create some kind of strategies or your sustainability strategies. And after that, we implement those strategies and some of them we can implement and some of them we couldn't. And also we again develop strategies and implement strategies. And finally we look at the reflection of those strategies. And here, we have a different kind of resources. And we analyzed the other OER platforms such as Coursera, edX, Udemy, FutureLearn and other open course platform, John Hopkinson, MIT, Yale. And this kind of platform, we also analyze to try to create strategies for the OER implementation. Also, we have a document review and we review more than 100 literally about the strategies. And also we have a strategy team. And it's the sixth person in the strategy team. And all team members are working at Atatürk University and they know the university. And also they have an expertise on the open education resource. Some of them has a publication, some of them conduct their thesis study about the open education resource. And also we have an installation team. This team consists of the expert who designed and initially initiated this OER initiative in Atatürk University. And as you can see, we have a different kind of sources for the research. So when it comes to our results, as you can see, this is the result of our first research question. I don't want to go into these details, but as you can see, we try to create the OER sustainability framework by looking at the factors affecting the OER sustainability. And aligned with these factors, we try to develop the OER sustainability strategies. And the research question too, and here is the answer of research question too. And we have institutional and platform related and also course related OER strategies. I would like, I don't want to go into detail each of them, but just I select some of them and I highlight it. And the first one, the first strategy I would like to mention about it is to create a plan for the course publication process. Before our study, there is no course publication process for the MOOC platform of the Atatürk University. So we define the this process step by step and it has a five step as you can see. And this is the one of the strategy we apply. Another strategy, we have a different initiatives in our universities or your initiatives. So we collect all of the and gather all of your initiatives in a single platform. And as you can see, we have an open course where and MOOC platform, open scientific article platform, e-book and e-exhibition. And we all collected and come together to all OER initiatives in a single platform to make it more visible and more sustainable. And another, our strategy was to increase the variety of the courses. To do this, we collaborated with different kind of, different units of our university. And in one of the faculty, management faculty, we collaborated with them and we created courses, KPSS courses, and the KPSS in Turkey is a central examination used for determining the people who will be assigned as a civil servants for the first time in the government. So this course is very important after we put those course resources or a MOOC platform. And as you can see, there was a very, especially user size, there was a number of user visited the MOOC platform. So as you remember, the second part of the sustainability which was the use of resources, it has some effect of those usage. And another strategy is, another one is the small strategy, although it's a small strategy, but I think it's especially important for the concern of the instructor. We established a notification mechanism for the copyright infringement. It's really small steps, but I think it works. This is the notification mechanism for copyright infringement we integrated in our courses. Because most of the instructor has concern about copyright infringement. So when they kind of concern, we say to them, okay, don't worry about it. If you have copyright problem, if user reported us, we will let you know and you will clear this kind of copyright problem. And this kind of small but important mechanism make the instructor feel safe about the publishing their courses. Also, we thought that this also increase or as an effect of the sustainability. And also another sustainability strategy is the we add an instruction participation form. As you can see here, we add some kind of a link in here and other instructor or other expert who are willing to publish their courses in our platform, they can contact. Before that, there is no this kind of mechanism. And lastly, we plan to share digital activities carried on by the different units at the university as a OER. So in our universities, as you know, as you can see from the number, we have a very big university. So there are many kind of activities going on. So in this strategy, we aim to, for instance, record the conference workshops and this kind of or seminars, webinars and to be aimed to organize and put all those resources in the OER platform of our university. Okay, as I said before, some of them we can apply some of the strategies and some of the strategies we could not. For instance, the last strategy, we couldn't apply because as you can see, which one is established, no, I don't remember. Yes, this one, lack of cooperation between the units and lack of OER team and COFRA issues, we couldn't apply, for instance, these strategies. But we also use and apply some strategies, some of them verbs and some of them we couldn't apply or although we apply, we couldn't see the results or couldn't make a significant contribution to sustainability. And in our short research question, which is not related with this presentation but is not focused but is related with this presentation, we also find some kind of evidence of this reflection, section of the OER sustainability strategies to sustainability. And here was the list of our OER sustainability strategy and the reflection of our study or sustainability. Okay, this is the end of my presentation. Thank you for listening me and I would like to close my presentation with the very good expression from the UNISENDE. He's the scholar of the, in the Turkey. He says, whatever you share is truly yours, not the one you say for yourself. And thank you for listening me. And if you have a question, I would be happy to answer it. Okay, just, I'm so excited. Fantastic, thank you very much. That's amazing and perfectly on time as well, which we really appreciate. There is, I think definitely a few minutes now to answer any questions. So please do put in the chat. We've had some really nice comments here as well, Paul saying, hello, Petrina says, looks beautiful. So that's great. Please do type your questions in the chat. And I might start us off with a question while everybody's typing. My question was really, what is your next step? Where are you hoping to take it next? Our next step is to make it this research study as an international, international perspectives. We have a plan to work with the Korea as an open education in the Oldenburg. Maybe, you know, Professor Olaf, we have some kind of connection with him. And we want to make it this project to next step as an international project. Fantastic, well, that sounds really intriguing. And I can see the participants in the room from lots of different places in the world. So hopefully there's some interest in maybe potential dissemination or collaboration. Are there any other questions before we finish? I think we have just two minutes left. So please do post any questions. We'll just wait here. Okay, Daniel also has a message and he says in Turkish, which means very good. And thank you, Danielio. Excellent, oh, fantastic. Did you want to add anything else? Anything else you wanted to mention more about? As I say, we still have a moment before we finish. Okay, in Turkey now, we are in Ramallah. I'm sorry because my mouth is dry now. And so we are fasting today and we are supposed to open our prayers then. And so thank you very much for organizing this fantastic event and also accepting our scholarship request and open up your doors to present our studies. Thank you so much. Oh, my pleasure. And from everybody here at OER 23, thank you for contributing to the conference and to everybody in the room. Thank you so much for joining the session. I hope you enjoyed this really interesting presentation. The recording of the session will be made available later on. So if you want to revisit, you can. 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