1. ACADEMIC VIDEO AS OER OER UNESCO Open Seminar & Exibition Paris, June 22nd 2012 Davor Orlic davor.orlic@ijs.si Knowledge for All Foundation Ltd

2. AGENDA  VideoLectures.NET  Content  Statistics  Licenses  Partners  Further development - transLectures  Knowledge for All Foundation Ltd.  Pillars

3. VIDEOLECTURES.NET  WHAT IS IT?  VideoLectures.NET is the largest OER free and open access digital library of academic talks. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at conferences, summer schools, workshops.  WHAT IS THE CONTENT?  Content built up via European research projects based in Computer Science fields. Other content from OCW partners.  WHAT ARE THE STATS?  696 events, 9971 authors, 12830 lectures, 15109 videos  Visits: 8,749,613  Page views: 23,909,593  Signed in users: 21253  Licenses: CC-NC-ND

4. VIDEOLECTURES.NET

5. UNESCO`S GLOBAL PRIORITIES  Gender Equality - Authors are male and female  Africa - Partnership in Ghana  Persons with Disabilities - transLectures, accessibility GUI  Youth - most viewers from 25-35  Small Island Developing States (SIDS)  Least Developed Countries (LDCs) – K4ALL  Marginalized and disadvantaged communities – K4ALL  North - South and North - South - South partnerships – K4ALL

6. transLectures  WHAT IS THE AIM?  To develop innovative, cost-effective solutions to produce accurate transcriptions and translations in VideoLectures, with generality across other Matterhorn-related repositories.  For translation, we consider the language pairs: en ⇆ es, en ⇆ sl, en  fr and en  de.  WHAT IS THE IMPACT?  A big step in making educational repositories truly accessible both to speakers of different languages and to people with disabilities.  ADDITIONAL VALUE?  Imagine having 15000 lectures in most of the world`s languages.

7. KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL (K4ALL)  WHAT IS IT?  K4ALL is a Foundation based in London (2010) with the goal of providing the legacy of the PASCAL2 Network of Excellence (machine learning), part of this legacy is also the VideoLectures.NET website and strong connections in Opencast Foundation (creating the Matterhorn software) and Open Courseware Consortium.  WHAT DOES IT DO?  I4All: Provision and distribution of infrastructure that supports the K4A mission  S4All: Online Science video journals and conference special issues  E4All: Organization and access to educational material  R4All: Research that facilitates the mission of K4All  A4All: Ensuring accessibility for as wide an audience as possible

8. Thank you. WEBSITES: http://videolectures.net/ http://www.translectures.eu/ http://www.k4all.org/ OER UNESCO Open Seminar & Exhibition Paris, June 22nd 2012 Davor Orlic davor.orlic@ijs.si Knowledge for All Foundation Ltd.