Presentation of Airina Volungevičienė, EDEN president, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, for the Open Education Week's first day webinar on "Education 2030 – Open knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in Europe and the world" - 4 March 2019 Recordings of the discussion are available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/pdu1u75yqba1/

2. • Pre-conditions established and supported by European Education policy
(Opening Up, 2013, Open Consultation groups, EU funding rules, etc.)
• “Open” as a focus point in the definition of ODL and as a tool for quality
assurance and transparency in education
• Open professional collaboration: new learning and teaching schemes (virtual
multilateral mobility), new types of assessment
• Open pedagogies, open learning offers
• Degress and forms of openness
• Recognition and certification of open learning ((open) digital credentials),
validation of open and online learning environments and solutions
• Open Science, Open access developments
What does it mean to open up education?
Lessons learnt and challenges raised

3. DELTA mandate
• EDEN continues membership as a stakeholder in High Level WG on ET2020 on
Digital Education: Learning Teaching and Assessment addressing main
“concrete issues” from ET2020 Joint report:
– Development of digital competences at all levels of learning, including non-formal
and informal
– Fostering transparency, quality assurance, validation and recognition of skills
and qualifications, through digital, online and open learning (formal, non-formal,
informal)
– Promoting the use of ICT with a view to increasing the quality and relevance of
education at all levels
– Boosting availability and quality of open and digital educational resources and
pedagogies
Through exchange of open educational practices, topics and peer learning;
analysis of trends and foresight; disseminating practices and supporting
member states in incubation and follow up on experimentation of innovations.

4. Towards Personalized Guidance
and Support for Learning
Statement No 3
Open education goes beyond the production and use of OER. It is linked to the
distributed and networked structure of knowledge in the digital age, as well as to the
collaborative, flexible and sharing nature of social networked environments
as potential learning contexts.
Each statement highlighted in the Research summary document is accompanied with the Challenges
related and Actions suggested in Summary document available at EDEN President’s blog

5. EDEN organizes the 3rd
Open Education Week in Europe
The topics discussed in March, 2018
• Challenges for quality of OER
• Grassroots of open educators at work
• Discussion on how to promote academic integrity in
online education

6. Conclusive statements of EDLW 2018
• OPEN DL topics evolve as rapid, as ever!
• OPEN DL changed mainstream education in Europe towards much
more flexible, accessible and equitable mode
• Openness made great tribute to the quality of teaching and learning
• Practices exist, impact should be better communicated

7. European OEW 2019
continues discussing the challenges highlighted by the community

8. New focus of European OEW2019
 How openness is approach in research?
 What impact does openness have upon education?
 What kind of openness do we (society) need?
 What are the characteristics of open learning, open curriculum, open
education and open learner/ teacher?