UNIMED General Assembly 2018

1. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018

2. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
Cristina Stefanelli, UNIMED
Opening up education in South-
Mediterranean Countries

3. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM
www.OpenMedproject.eu
OVERALL GOAL
To raise awareness and facilitate
the adoption of Open
Educational Resources (OER) and
Open Educational Practices
(OEP) in the South-
Mediterranean countries, with a
particular focus on higher
education in Egypt, Jordan,
Morocco and Palestine.
OPENING UP EDUCATION
IN SOUTH-MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES

4. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
WORKING DEFINITION: OER are “[t]eaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or
otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-
cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” (UNESCO, 2012)

5. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
HIGHLIGHTS
Compendium with a review of open
education in the region, webometrics
analysis and 11 case studies
Series of video interviews with experts in
open education
OER National Strategy Forums in Egypt
(Nov-16), Morocco (Dec-16), Jordan (Feb-
17), Palestine (Apr-17)
OER Regional Agenda for South-
Mediterranean Universities
Innovation Centers for Open Education at
South-Med partner universities
Capacity-building course on Open
Education, 74 academics trained face to
face (Torino, 25-29 Sep-18) and online
phase (Oct-17 Mar-18)
Institutional Roadmaps on Open
Education
Recommendations for university leaders
and policy makers to open up higher
Education by 2030

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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
Discover Palestine (MOOC, Palestine)
EDRAAK (MOOCs platform, Jordan)
JORUM (repository, UK)
Nafham (techers’ platform, Egypt)
OER Commons Arabic (learning repository, Egypt)
OER Strategy of UNISA (strategy, South Africa)
Open Humanities Press (open access publishing, UK)
Open Review Project (reviews OER research, US)
Platforme Pédagogique (Learning platform, Morocco)
REDES (Open journal, Spain)
UC@MOOC (MOOCs platform, Morocco)
Review of OER and OEP case studies
Video Presentation
https://youtu.be/Zqt9x9sIUb0
Downloadable at:
http://openmedproject.eu/results/compendium/

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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
OER Regional Agenda for
South-Mediterranean
Universities
It is a set of long-term actions for OER adoption
in South-Mediterranean Universities.
The aim is to become the starting point for the
development of both policies and roadmaps at
institutional level, and it will inform the training
of trainers component of the OpenMed project.

8. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018

9. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
Innovation Centers for Open Education

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PILOT COURSE PARTICIPANTS
WHERE THEY COME FROM:WHO THEY ARE:
FEMALE
35%
MALE
65%
AGE
under 49
over 50
11
14
15
17
17
LEBANON
JORDAN
PALESTINE
MOROCCO
EGYPT
ROLE
Facilitators
Learners
74participants
9learning circles

11. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
PILOT COURSE PARTICIPANTS
Participants to the Open Education Training Week, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (25-29 September 2017)

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THE COURSE
Build capacity on Open Education and OER among
universities in the South-Mediterranean region.
After having taken this course, learners will be able to:
• Understand the potential advantages of adopting OER
and open education approaches in different contexts
• Understand how content released under different kinds
of open licenses can be reused and apply open licenses
to your content
• Search for, reuse and remix OER
• Understand what MOOCs are and how to produce
MOOCs
• Adapt OER and MOOCs to your specific context.
• Incorporate open educational practices into your daily
teaching
5 MODULES
5 EXPERT
WEBINARS
ACTIVITIES
LEARNING
CIRCLES
PROJECT
WORK
F2F
TRAINING
COMPONENTS
LEARNING OUTCOMES
AIM
“Open Education: fundamentals and approaches.
A learning journey opening up teaching in higher education”
TARGET
University teachers with an interest in learning more about
OE with a motivation to adopt OE approaches and OER into
their teaching.
M1. Introducing Openness in Education
M2. Open Licensing and Copyright
M3. Creating and reusing OER
M4. Localising OER and MOOCs
M5. Open Educational Practices
MODULESLANGUAGES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, ARABIC
DURATION: 40hrs + 40hrs project work steps

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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
Open Licence for the OpenMed products
This means that you are free to:
• Share – copy and redistribute the material in any
medium or format
• Adapt – remix, transform, and build upon the
material
You may do so for any purpose, even commercially. However, you must credit the
authorship appropriately. Share and reuse does not mean endorsement form the
OpenMed consortium.

14. UNIMED General Assembly
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
Recommendations
Based on our work within OpenMed, we call for institutional
leaders to strategically prioritise Open Education to further
develop the education system in the South-Mediterranean.
We recommend that HE Institutions, within their capacities:
1. Support democratic and diverse access to knowledge
2. Build Capacities in Open Education
3. Instill a Culture of Openness, Reward Open Education
4. Direct human capitals and economic resources
towards Open Education initiatives

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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018

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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 25-26 October 2018
Virtual Exchange
OPENING UP EDUCATION
IN SOUTH-MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES
www.openmedproject.eu