This document summarizes the Open Education Week event organized by the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN). It discusses EDEN's role in promoting open education through various events and initiatives held throughout the year. Specifically, it outlines EDEN's 2018 Open Education Week events that aim to raise awareness of free and open educational opportunities. It also provides information on EDEN's annual conference and the ReOPEN project which aims to develop validated open learning practices and facilitate skills recognition.

1. Open Education –
importance of communities
and networking
Sandra Kucina Softic
EDEN Vice-president for Open Professional Collaboration
Assistant Director for Education and User Support
University Computing Centre SRCE, Zagreb, Croatia
March 9, 2018
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2. “The smart network for the professional community
and a professional community for smart learning”
European Distance and Learning Network
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3. The most extensive and established professional
network in open and distance learning
Founded in 1991
200 institutional members
2000 individual members
From 52 countries within and outside Europe
65 EU projects since 1997
ERASMUS+ Civil Society Cooperation
Operating Grant since 2015
http://www.eden-online.org/
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European Distance and Learning Network

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Core missions
• Policy and feasibility studies
• Professional development – the Garden of Learning
• Innovative projects
To support our members
and partners in their
endeavours to modernise
education in Europe
• Annual Conferences
• Network of Academics and Professionals
• Disseminating good practice, project results and policy
To facilitate the exchange
of knowledge and
practice in all sectors and
levels of education
• Support for early-stage researchers
• The European Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning
EURODL
• Bi-annual Research workshops
To further research in the
field
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5. • Organized every year with aim to share opinions, experiences, know-
how, cases studies and discuss, to foster collaboration and networking
• Recordings of the events available at
• http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/european-distance-learning-week/
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6. Open Education Week – EDEN contribution
• Aim is to contribute to raise awareness about free and open educational
opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now
• EDEN is organizing number of events
• For 2018 http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/open-education-
week-2/
• Event today (Friday) at 13:00 CET
• How to promote academic integrity in online education
• Speakers:
• Fredric M. Litto, Professor Emeritus, University of São Paulo and President, Brazilian
Association of Distance Education-ABED
• Dr. Irene Glendinning, Academic Manager for Student Experience, Coventry University,
UK
• Chris Edwards, The Institute of Educational Technology, Open University UK
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7. EDEN 2018 Annual Conference
http://www.eden-online.org/2018_genoa/#/
• EXPLORING THE MICRO, MESO AND MACRO
• Networking and interactivity, sharing and
discussion will be core aspects of the conference
experience, focusing on what you can learn from
and with your peers.
• Stretching the boundaries remains our focus.
The demand for people with new, enhanced
skills is growing. The volume of information
produced and shared in all fields is
overwhelming. Building the data economy
became part of the EU Digital Single Market.
Powerful and sophisticated ICT is part of
everyday life, and the world of learning is not
an exception. Pressure is on all players of the
online education community to keep up with
new learning solutions, and better supply the
skills currently demanded by growing
economies
• Late submissions welcome
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About Project ReOPEN
Recognition of Valid and Open Learning
• Programme is co-funded by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union
• Time frame: 01-11-2016 to 31-10-2018
• Consortium members:
• Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas
• ONECO
• ESCP Europe Wirtschafthochschule
• Q21 - Agentur für Qualifizierungs und Transfermanagement GmbH
• SRCE - Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Sveucilisni Racunski Centar
• EDEN - European Distance and e-Learning Network
http://reopen.eu
AboutReOPENproject

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Aims and objectives
ReOPEN project aims to develop validated non-formal open learning
practices allowing for transparent recognition of skills, qualifications and
competences by education providers and employer organizations, to
facilitate learning, recognition and employability
The aim will be reached through the following objectives:
1. To design a platform for non-formal open learning curriculum (e.g. MOOC)
development with learning validation and recognition instruments √
http://reopen.eu/learn/
2. To train T&TT at C-VET organizations, companies, HE institutions and adult
learning organizations √ (created learning materials, organized T&TT)
3. To exploit the new platform and to design non-formal open learning courses for
continuous professional staff developing (CPD) applying learning recognition
instruments for validated non-formal open learning
4. To establish partnership for future collaboration for non-formal open learning
recognition (reviewing curriculum in partner institutions and preparing
information on potential recognition of open learning)
AboutReOPENproject

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Priorities addressed
• Open and innovative education, training and youth work, embedded in
the digital era
• Transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate
learning, employability and labour mobility
• Access to training and qualifications for all through C-VET
AboutReOPENproject

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Opening up challenges
• Curriculum opening up through:
• Open Educational Resources
• Massive open online courses
• open collaboration and communication among teachers and learners
• creating innovative education services for diverse learning groups
• recognition and validation of non-formal open learning
AboutReOPENproject

12. How can project results be of value to the
community?
Available training materials:
• Training material on non-formal open learning curriculum
designing
• Training material on application of digital badges
• Training material on recognition of non-formal open learning
results in formal curricular
• Web page: http://reopen.eu/training-material/
To train T&TT at C-VET organizations, companies, HE institutions and
adult learning organizations
• Training for project members
• Workshops for educators on national level

13. How can project results be of value to the
community? (2)
Design of five non-formal open learning courses for continuous
professional staff developing
• Digital skills (in English)
• Introduction to Wireless Network Design (in Croatian)
• Language and Society (in English)
• Design and Management of European Projects (in Spanish)
• Introduction to Animation Creation as a Learning Tool (In Hungarian
and English)

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