OPEN ACCESS AS AN EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK, CHALLENGE AND APPROACH / TRENDS IN TEACHING SMALL LANGUAGES

During the one year's pilot action (April 2019 – March 2020) within the ROSIE project focusing on monitoring implementation of the RRI concept (Responsible Research and Innovation) for SMEs, CCSS (Czech Centre for Science and Society) provided assistance to 6 SMEs working in the field of education. All lecturers-language tutors involved in the pilot action do private tutoring of so-called SL (small languages or language of minorities). Our presentation shows the results of this pilot action; all problems connected with existence and availability of OER for the SL lecturers are listed there. Our experience described here may be also useful to tutors of other SLs. Part of our assistance output can serve as a source of inspiration in general for online low-barrier tutoring (health, economic and other barriers), but also as motivation for other language education businesses, lecturers and agencies. In January 2019 CCSS gave out an open call for business-people/lecturers in language services with an offer of assistance in the RRI area emphasizing OA (Open Access) and OE (Open Education). CCSS decided for this direction in particular on the ground of their previous experience with lack of quality OER for language tutors. Their basic presupposition was also lack of information in the bulk of SL tutors in the area of IT tools usable for teaching planning, teaching itself and self-presentation and transfer of the RRI topics.