UNESCO is organizing a webinar on “Quality, Inclusive and equitable Open Educational Resources (OER)” on the International Day of Education.
The objective of the webinar is to raise awareness and share knowledge on the OER Recommendation Action Area 3 Encouraging effective, inclusive and equitable access to quality OER and to highlight innovative and inspiring initiatives and practices at institutional or national level.
The session will focus on accessibility and inclusion including multilingualism and will highlight the opening International Decade of Indigenous languages (IDIL 2022-2032) and the new Guidelines on the inclusion of learners with disabilities in open and distance learning (ODL).
Each speaker will address one of these kea questions:
- How can collective efforts in the development of appropriate, local, multilingual OER can drive education and information in the opening International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032)?
- How ODL and OER can be a game changer for education of PWD ?
- How to enhance accessibility of OER and overcome the digital divide and connectivity issues in Francophone Africa ?
Speakers include:
- Ms Zeynep Varoglu, Programme Specialiste , UNESCO CI
- Dr Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, Advisor, UNESCO CI
- Dr Dianne Chambers, Associate Professor, Notre Dame University Australia and Coordinator of Special and Inclusive Education
- Dr. Alireza Darvishy, Professor at Institute of Mechatronic Systems (ZHAW)
- Ms. Mona Laroussi, Director of the Francophonie Institution for Education and Training (IFEF)
Registration link:
https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_79bm8v8nSuWTolFqr8a3DA
The event "Presentation of the Russian-English-Nivkh audio dictionary" was the final link of the project "Symphony of Nivkh words" MBUK Noglik centralized library system. The aim of this project was to preserve the sound form of the East Sakhalin dialect of the Nivkh language.
The presentation was attended by more than thirty people interested in the language and culture of the Nivkh people. The participants not only got acquainted with the application of the Russian-English-Nivkh audio dictionary, but also installed it on their mobile phones.
A series of loud readings "The Wise World of fairy tales and legends of the peoples of the North" will introduce children to the Nivkh fairy tales and legends of Vladimir Sangi, Nanai, Uyltin and Evenki fairy tales, which can be regarded as a unique cultural phenomenon.
Due to the fact that week 43 was designated as a giellavahkku / language week at the language conference, Tromsö Feb 2019, the Sami language week was noted in both Norway, Finland and Sweden at the same time.The Language Center invited all Sami administrative municipalities via e-mail to pay attention in various ways to the […]
Mundial is where North America’s largest gathering of talent buyers and tastemakers connect intimately to create opportunities for the global music community. The event is creating an unprecedented community network of partners and presenters from across the country and abroad with a common goal: to develop touring opportunities nationally, and beyond !
Mundial Montreal also created a special series by and for Indigenous Music across the world : Indigenous Sounds Series. It secures a place for artists from Indigenous communities in Mundial Montréal’s programming. It highlights the talent, presence and diversity of the many Indigenous communities across Canada and even further.
The series showcases professional, export-ready artists and is accompanied by professional development activities, mentoring sessions and other targeted networking activities. This unique component of the world music industry’s professional events, initiated by Mundial Montréal, was developed to create a bridge for artists to benefit from visibility and touring opportunities in new mainstream markets.
A talk of visiting professor who has done research on teaching training methodologies for nahuatl native speakers working on revitalization project in El Salvador. Besides, we are planning to have a field trip to have an in site visit and have our students experience, first hand, the efforts being carried out in Santo Domingo de Guzman, a Nahuat speaking community.
Conversational Navajo is open to any individual who is interested in Navajo. Our Navajo language students are encouraged to attend. We also invite speakers of all levels to participate and exchange Navajo language knowledge with students. Conversational Navajo focuses on speaking the language.
"Sacred place names in Sámi landscapes" is an international conference to be held in Tromsø, Norway, 21–22 November 2019. It will focus on the under-research topic of Sámi place names and some multidisciplinary approaches to this, with a special focus on how to study sacred place names methodologically, theoretically, and with regard to ethical and political aspects of such research.
"Filmar en Idioma", organisé par l'ONG Traditions pour Demain, mettra en avant la réalisation de films amérindiens dans le cadre du Festival "Filmar en América Latina", à Genève en novembre 2019. Sélection de films du Mexique, du Pérou et d'Equateur et débat avec un réalisateur autochtone d'Equateur sur le rôle du cinéma indépendant en langue autochtone.
Watch-Africa is about sharing African culture through film screenings, workshops and conversations. Culture is Food. Culture is Language. Culture is Music and Dance. Culture is Relationships. Culture is.....Sex! So let's talk about it.
Sacred Water confronts the western viewer with its own intimacy and immerses you into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in the most secret way: female pleasure.
Chapter, Cardiff are offering a special screening of Bait, set in a Cornish fishing village where the way of life is threatened.
To make visible the creative potential of indigenous languages speakers through the presentation and promotion of the multilingual goods, products and services that generate communication bridges that allow dialogue, exchange and the strengthening of community cultural production.
Nandiri'ba'nya: Language and Country celebrates 2019: The International Year of Indigenous Languages, raising awareness of and promoting the preservation and complexity of the hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. The exhibition was curated by UTS and Western Sydney University in a creative co-design partnership between academics, artists and designers, including both settler-Australians and members of First Peoples communities. It was sponsored by the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.
Evento académico y cultural, organizado en conjunto con el Centro de Lenguas y Culturas -CLC-, el Departamento de Lingüística de la Escuela de Ciencias del Lenguaje -ECL-, la División de Bibliotecas y el Cabildo Universitario Indígena de la Universidad del Valle, que busca un acceso intercultural a las comunidades indígenas de la zona del pacífico colombiano, a través de paneles, ceremonias rituales, charlas, conversatorios, talleres, exposiciones, cine y otras muestras culturales. Invitados académicos de gran relevancia compartirán no solo sus investigaciones sino también cosmovisiones y conocimientos sobre la madre tierra y la manera en que las lenguas han conformados estas culturas.
Celebrating the International Year of Indigenous Languages, IMADR holds an human rights seminar on the right to languages of indigenous peoples, featuring indigenous Ainu and Ryukyu languages.
Please join us for the second annual Tribal Connections event. In North America, at least 52 Native American languages have disappeared. Globally, more than 6,000 languages face eventual extinction, prompting the United Nations to declare 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages.
Pourquoi étudier les langues rares ou peu parlées ? Plusieurs spécialistes et enseignants de l’Inalco, endroit unique au monde à offrir des formations universitaires dans plusieurs langues autochtones majeures du continent américain, interviendront sur ces sujets à partir des langues mayas, du nahuatl, du quechua, du guarani et du mapuche.















