Presentation by Anna Comas Quinn and Hélène Pulker at the first meeting of the EC-cofunded project ExplOERer

1. Output 2 presentation
Anna Comas-Quinn & Hélène Pulker
The Open University
Kick-off meeting, ExplOERer project
Thessaloniki, 3 & 4 November 2014
This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the
author, and theCommission cannot be held responsible for any
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2. Scope
• Designing and delivering an open online
course to train teachers in OER reuse.
– Experiential approach.
– Modelling reuse strategies & behaviours.
– Focus on skills needed to move beyond simple
access to content.
• Translation and localisation to PL and SE, and
delivery in three languages.
• Guidelines for translation and localisation of
open content

3. Key players
• OUUK: design, piloting and delivery of the open online course
to EN participants; data collection; writing guidelines for
translation & localisation.
• CCPL: technical / platform; design of evaluation instrument &
final report; adaptation to and delivery in PL; data collection.
• GCU: informing course design from guidelines for developing
OEP amongst educators (Output 1); advice on evaluation.
• UGOT: adaptation to and delivery in SE; data collection.
• W2L: support with multilingual delivery; marketing and
dissemination through social media.
• KC: disseminate to suitable communities of potential course
participants.

4. Activities and deliverables
• O2.1: Audit of existing resources and
communities (EN, PL, SE)
• O2.2: Design and piloting of open online course
(EN). Platform: P2P University’s School of Open
http://schoolofopen.p2pu.org/. Translation and
localisation to PL and SE. Design of evaluation
instrument & setting quality indicators.
• O2.3: Delivery to first cohorts in EN, PL and SE.
Data collection.
• O2.4: Publication of evaluation report and
guidelines on translation and localisation of open
content.

5. Timeline

6. Milestones
• July 2015: audit completed (EN).
• Sept 2015: learning design; platform; facilitation &
badges. Design of evaluation tool
• Oct 2015: piloting of course and evaluation tool in EN.
Audit of resources in SE and PL.
• Nov / Dec 2015: refining of course & adaptation to SE
and PL. Translation of evaluation tool.
• Jan / Feb 2016: course delivered in EN, SE and PL. Data
collection.
• Mar / Apr 2016: evaluation report and guidelines for
translation and localisation of open content.
Modifications to course following evaluation and
publication as an open resource.

7. Resource allocation

8. Issues to discuss
• Platform – P2PU or another?
• Drawing on existing expertise:
– OER Research Hub & IET @OU for evaluation,
questionnaire design and experience of delivering
through P2PU platform.
– OMU @OU for facilitation
– TESSA (Africa) and TESS-India for translation and
localisation of open content