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Open Educational Practices at Online Educa

Tuesday, 14 December 2010 12:10 Written by Anthony F. Camilleri 0 Comments

A pre-conference workshop – Moving Ahead to Learning for All: From Open Educational Resources to Open Educational Practices – was held at Online Educa Berlin on Wednesday, 1 December 2010. The workshop was a practical introduction to innovation guidelines for teachers, learners, institutional managers, and policy makers with a focus on raising the quality of learning experiences. It was also an opportunity to comment on the first draft of the Guidelines for Open Educational Practices under preparation by the OPAL Initiative. A paper introducing the Open Educational Practices landscape is published here.

 

The Open Educational Quality (OPAL) Initiative is a project bringing together UNESCO, ICDE, EFQUEL and a consortium of higher education organizations from several countries to promote and encourage Open Educational Practices. The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme.

This newly published positioning paper presents and defines Open Educational Practices and provides two matrixes allowing individuals and organizations to plot their trajectory of openness.

Last ned filThe Open Educational Practice Landscape.pdf
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OPAL website Workshop programme Online Educa Berlin

The Open Educational Quality Initiative – an update

Monday, 13 December 2010 12:14 Written by Anthony F. Camilleri 0 Comments

The Open Educational Quality (OPAL) Initiative is a partnership between organizations including ICDE and UNESCO which is working to promote quality and innovation in higher and adult education. This presentation given at the Open Ed 2010 conference in Barcelona, Spain highlights progress to date in the project.

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Ulf-Daniel Ehlers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, presents an update on the OPAL Initiative as well as a preview of the Register to be launched in 2011 where organizations may declare their commitment to quality and innovation through open educational practices.

The project is part funded by the European Commission Education and Training Lifelong Learning Programme.

Presentation given at Open Ed 2010.

 

Video interviews on Open Educational Practices

Wednesday, 08 December 2010 12:21 Written by Anthony F. Camilleri 0 Comments

Gráinne Conole of the Open University UK has conducted a series of interviews with colleagues from the academic community to collect their thoughts on the opportunities and challenges presented by Open Educational Resources (OER) and moves to define and promote Open Educational Practices (OEP). The videos are available to view and comment on.

At the EFQUEL Innovation Forum held 8-10 September 2010 in Oieras, Portugal, Gráinne Conole interviewed eight colleagues from the academic community to collect their thoughts and input on the following four questions:

  1. What opportunities do OER offer for education from your perspective?
  2. What do you think are the key challenges to achieving this vision?
  3. We have identified four dimensions of OEP practice that are important – do these capture the different aspects of OER practice? Strategies and Policies, Barriers and Success Factors, Tools and Tool Practice, Staff Development and Support. Is there anything else we should include?
  4. What kinds of guidelines derived from these dimensions of OEP would be useful for those involved in creating, using and management OER?

These videos are available for viewing through the Open University’s Cloudworks and range in length up to about twelve minutes.

You are invited to view the videos and to comment, and offer your thoughts on the questions.