The winners of the OPAL Awards for quality and innovation through open educational practices were announced at a ceremony at Online Educa Berlin on 2 December.
The attached media release describes the winners and grounds for their selection.
Posts Tagged ‘OEP’
Media Release – The OPAL Awards 2011
Tuesday, 06 December 2011 16:20
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Launch of tools to enable Open Educational Practices
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:24
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The Open Educational Quality (OPAL) Initiative announces the launch of tools for organizations and individuals to self-assess their level of adoption and integration of Open Educational Practices (OEP). The OEP Guide includes a maturity model, detailed description of the concept, and description of the elements which constitute Open Educational Practices.
These tools provide the basis upon which organizations and individuals may work to improve the openness of their educational practices. Through this 3 stage process it is thus possible to:
- Position yourself or your organization on the OEP trajectory according to the degree of uptake of OEP
- Better understand your strategy for OEP and create a vision for openness
- Analyse the implementation and promotion of OEP with a view to creating a better environment for OEP
Two appendices are published as further background to the OEP Guide. “The Open Educational Practice Landscape” is a position paper describing further the concept of open educational practices, while a list of elements provides further explanation of the consituent parts of Open Educational Practices.
Call for papers for eLearning Papers
Monday, 20 December 2010 12:09
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The OPAL project is assisting eLearning papers in the next issue on Open Education: Changing Educational Practices. The extended deadline for submission of full papers is the 22 January 2011.
The presence of open education has spread to hundreds of educational institutions across the globe, in particular centres for higher education and adult learning. Starting with important initiatives demanding access to information and spreading quickly into the making available of educational resources, it has became clear that open access is not only an issue of accessibility or availability but also of institutional change and innovation in teaching, studying and learning.
Open educational resources (OER) fall high on the agenda of educational institutions and policy makers, and they are supported by many stakeholders of the educational sphere. However, their use has not yet reached the critical threshold. This poses an obstacle for developing a seamless provision of quality learning resources and practices for citizens’ lifelong learning biography, due to the fact that the current focus in OER is mainly put on building more access to digital content in the form of repositories and infrastructures. There is little consideration of whether this will support educational practices, open education, and promote quality and innovation in teaching and learning.
The purpose of the 23rd issue of eLearning Papers on Open Education is to further our understanding of the way in which open access and open educational resources impact educational practices in organizations, and for learners and other stakeholders, both today and in the future.
Find more at: http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=fix&id=15
Open Educational Practices at Online Educa
Tuesday, 14 December 2010 12:10
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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.
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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.
The Open Educational Practice Landscape.pdf
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Video interviews on Open Educational Practices
Wednesday, 08 December 2010 12:21
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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:
- What opportunities do OER offer for education from your perspective?
- What do you think are the key challenges to achieving this vision?
- 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?
- 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.
