Browsing by Author "Buist-Zhuk, Mira"

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    Be(com)ing OE Librarians in Ukraine During Wartime: Taking Down Language Barriers and Practising Inclusion
    (Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association, Canada, 2023) Kolesnykova, Tetiana O.; Buist-Zhuk, Mira; Corti, Paola
    ENG: Ukrainian librarians are champions of positive change despite the ongoing war with Russia. The academic library of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies has continued to support students and faculty, even while working remotely from home basements, sharing computers, and taking care of each others’ children, despite air-raid alarms and daily electricity and heating outages. However, this is just a part of their work. They take every opportunity to advance their open agenda by upskilling through peer-to-peer learning, participating in international networks, and adapting existing and creating new OER. They are building bridges between the present and the future: as soon as this war is over, Ukrainian librarians will facilitate enhanced teaching and learning opportunities with fresh, professional skills and external collaborations. All this while relentlessly facing language issues: rejecting Russia’s linguicide attempts and working with colleagues from other countries. The latter incentivises the international community to provide support. The former requires a different strategy: Ukrainian librarians are actively working to preserve their country’s language and heritage, ensuring that its history and culture are not forgotten, despite the war. This presentation offers an opportunity to hear their story and build new collaborative pathways while strengthening existing ones.
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    European Practices of Overcoming Language Barriers in Times of Crisis: Open Educational Resources
    (Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, 2022) Kolesnykova, Tetiana O.; Corti, Paola; Buist-Zhuk, Mira
    ENG: Objective. In any given country, the national language and education not only help to impart knowledge but also broaden the horizons of students, teaching them to be more tolerant of different cultures. Today, the Ukrainian language as an important component of national identity and state building is one of the main goals of Russia in its war against Ukraine. That is why one of the main challenges for higher education in Ukraine during wartime is to create modern and high-quality educational materials in the national language as quickly as possible, in order to facilitate remote teaching, learning and research processes at universities. The mechanism for responding to this challenge is to turn to the experience of creating, adapting and using Open Educational Resources (OER) in Europe and the rest of the world. The aim of the study is to consider the practices of creating, adapting and using OER in European universities and libraries in the context of their benefits, including the possibilities of overcoming language barriers in times of crisis. Methods. This article is based on the analysis of the literature on OER practices in facilitating the overcoming of language barriers, on the activities of ENOEL, on the practices of librarians and educationalists of several European universities, as well as on self-reflection and direct experience of the circumstances of the war by Ukrainian librarians, who continue information support of the educational process. Results. The theoretical aspects and implemented practical solutions demonstrate that OER can be an effective solution in times of crisis (whether a pandemic or a war) to the issue of quality information support of distance education with materials in the national language in any country in Europe and the world. In the context of higher education in Ukraine, OER is a means and one of the methods of overcoming linguocide by the Russian Federation – the purposeful destruction of the Ukrainian language as the main feature of the ethnic group. The experience of working with OER of the USUST Scientific Library (Dnipro, Ukraine) is the story of a library that was looking for opportunities to answer its local challenges and resolve problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, and found solutions that became necessary during the war with Russia. Conclusions. The authors hope that Ukrainian-language OER will soon become a mandatory element in the cultural environment of Ukrainian universities. And it is OER that can help overcome Ukrainian linguocide in educational resources. The experience of librarians of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) proves that one of the most important roles in this is played by university librarians.
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    How Difficult Could it be? Experiences in Sharing and Adapting Open Educational Resources and Practices (presentation)
    (Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, 2023) Corti, Paola; Buist-Zhuk, Mira
    ENG: Open Educational Resources (OER) and Practices continue to offer valuable opportunities for librarians to upskill and engage in education more and more actively. In this presentation, Paola Corti (Politecnico di Milano and SPARC Europe, Italy) and Mira Buist-Zhuk (University of Groningen, Netherlands) come together to share two parallel experiences they have contributed to. In the first case study, Paola explores the intricate process of localising a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from English to Ukrainian, emphasising the challenges and solutions encountered during the translation and adaptation of this OER. Drawing from their second endeavour, Mira delves into the development and adaptation of a series of interactive workshops designed to empower educators and librarians in the publishing of open textbooks. By sharing these experiences, they aim to shed light on the practical complexities and rewarding moments involved in adapting and disseminating open educational resources and practices across diverse educational settings. This presentation will provide valuable insights for librarians, educators, and educational stakeholders looking to harness and multiply the potential of open education in their respective contexts.
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    The Open Education Librarian – Would you Like to Become One?
    (Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, 2022) Corti, Paola; Meen, Kristopher; Bustillo, Marta; Peignen, Celine; Buist-Zhuk, Mira
    ENG: Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching, and research materials in any format and on any medium (digital or otherwise) that are in the public domain or protected by copyright, released under an open license that permits free access, reuse, repurposing, adaptation, and other distribution without restriction. Librarians can perform many different functions in open education, in addition to providing access to resources, they can be representatives of OER in their institutions, contribute to the formation of open education policy, provide practical support in the creation of open educational resources and much more.
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    University of Groningen Press: Navigating the Open Textbook Publishing Landscape
    (Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, 2023) Buist-Zhuk, Mira; Nieborg, Margreet
    ENG: In this session, we will share the experience of the University of Groningen Press (UGP) with its first open textbook publishing pilot. UGP is a new university press that has transformed into a dynamic hub for diamond open access publishing. Our experience in facilitating open access journals and monographs has paved the way for our latest initiative - an open textbook publishing service. UGP's integration of interactive, student-centered open textbooks into its portfolio embodies our commitment to supporting open education and facilitating the cross-disciplinary synergy within open science. Drawing upon insights from the ongoing pilot, we will briefly explore UGP's open textbook publishing journey. We will do so by discussing what it takes to set up a functional open textbook pilot and garner support for its implementation. Additionally, we will showcase the platforms we use to support academics in publishing our university’s first open textbooks. We hope this session helps the audience generate valuable insights for their own endeavors in open textbook publishing and ensuring access to knowledge, especially in times of high-level crisis.