On November 11, 2013 UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) hosted an orientational seminar on promotion of open educational resources and mass online trainings in CIS. The seminar was attended by representative of lead higher educational institutions, companies and educational centers of CIS and the Russian Federation.   IIS was represented by Alexander Evtyushkin, Head of Directorate of Perspective Projects, and Louiza Rizmanova, Head of Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations.

Within the framework of the seminar the reports were presented by Svetlana Knyazeva, Head of “Digital pedagogy and open educational resources” department of UNESCO IITE on the results of the project “Open educational resources (OER) in non-English-speaking countries” (2009 – 2013.)», and by Marina Tsvetkova, Specialist of UNESCO IITE «On perspectives of  OER CIS collection creation on IITE portal».

A report on «Intellectual property rights and perspectives of Creative Commons licenses’ use for open educational content» was delivered by an expert of the Institute of the Information Society Alexander Evtyushkin.

In the course of the seminar a round table took place devoted to  «Cooperation between Russian higher educational institutions and organizations in CIS within the framework of IITE project on promotion of open educational resources and mass online trainings in CIS». During the round table participants and representatives of higher educational institutions exchanged opinions on the project and mechanisms of its implementation, issues related to quality assurance and legal aspects.