1. OER in Adult Learning
STATUS QUO in…
Country: Spain
Region: Catalonia
Higher Education
Schools
Adult Education
2. OER environment
• Most important milestones
– INTEF: National Institute of Educational Technology and Teacher Education.
– CEDEC: National Centre for Curriculum Development in Non-Propietary Systems.
– Agrega: a federation of learning Digital repositories (19 educational authorities in Spain).
– Educared: offers resources and methodologies to introduce the use of ICT and Internet inside
educational organisations.
– Marsupial Project: based on Moodle to facilitate acces to the Agora repository.
• Who produces OER?
– Goverments
– Associations
– Teachers (primary, secondary)
• Who sets an agenda/policies? What does it look like?
– Isolated practices
– Specific policies are needed within the Adult Education centers
• Who finances OER projects?
– European projects
– Institucional initiatives
3. …input concerning the training content
THE SITUATION IS...
In general, people agree with the concept of OER: „OER are interesting and
useful“.
But, in particular, when they have to use them, they identify 3 problems:
1. Lack of materials for AE Require adaptation for adult learners
2. Lack of training
3. Lack of institucional policies
• Too general
• Poor quality
•„Difficult to find“
4. • Training should help teachers to...
– Be introduced in an open culture: most of practices are
limited in a closed environment („I prepare some materials
which are available within my classrooms”)
– Acquire strategies for:
Search OER
Adapt OER
Create OER
…input concerning the training content II
“Clear”, “useful”, “specific”, “adapted to learner’s level”
• Innovative
• To facilitate future adaptation
• Publication!
5. …needs concerning the training implementation
• Blended solution
• Content:
• Search, adaptation and creation of OER
• Different approaches: pedagogical, legal (CC-licenses)
• Open methodologies supporting open practices
• Adapted to teacher‘s needs: supporters and detractors
• Technical issues are not the key but necessary
• To promote actualization and lifelong learning strategies: a
punctual training is not enough
• To reflect about institutional policies: clear, easy and
progressive.
Editor's Notes
The INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado) Recursos Educativos portal. This offers over one thousand educational resources oriented towards teachers, kids, young adults and parents. All its resources are licensed under Creative Commons BY – NC – SA 3.0. They are organized according to aims and in some cases around specific projects. For instance, WikiDidacTICa is a repository of best educational practices developed by teachers through collaborative processes. Its main goal is to build a useful space facilitating the gradual incorporation for all educational levels of digital tools as teaching resources. The resources are licensed under Creative Commons BY – NC – SA 3.0 and there is also a repository of images and sounds under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
CEDEC (National Centre for Curriculum Development in Non-Propietary Systems) was founded in 2009 as an agency of the Ministry of Education managed by INTEF and the Junta of Extremadura. Its aim is to design, promote and develop digital educational materials through the use of free software and make them available to the entire educational community. The Virtual School for Parents is a web portal for parents, aimed at supporting them in their role, through the provision of useful documentary resources and spaces for dialogue around the issues of child education and related problems. The portal include a specific session called “Escuela Virtual”, where materials can be downloaded and a forum is available.
The Agrega project is a federation of learning Digital repositories used by 19 educational authorities in Spain. Each one of them has its own repository loaded with curricular learning objects with a clear focus towards integration and interoperability between Agrega learning repositories and other repositories located worldwide thanks to the use of generic GPL licensing. Regarding the curricular contents, those are being developed under Creative Commons licensing schemes, and can be used directly from a web site, offline or through a Learning Management System. Contents and applications are available in Spanish, Euskera, Catalan, Valencian, Gallego and English.
EducaRed was launched between 2008-2012 by the Telefonica Foundation and aimed at offering resources and methodologies to introduce the use of ICT and Internet inside educational organisations.
Marsupial project a nivel català (aquest no hi és però es tracta d’una inciativa basada en Moodle a partir de la qual els centres educatius instal·lant-s’ho podn accedir al repositori Agora de la Generalitat que té tant coses de editorials com en obert
Adaptacion a veces es difícil por los formatos… formatos no abiertos, no editables.
“difícil de encontrar” identificar repositorios, repositorios con búsquedas poco flexibles
Search: usan google, buscar en repositorios.
Adapt: ya lo hacen pero ayudar en temas técnicos y crear nuevos formatos (no sólo ppt)
Crear: innovadores, formatos avanzados (más allá de ppt), publicarlos.
Tipo de formación en el que piensan los docentes…
Uso de OER más allá de ser un complemento de contenido: aprovechar para hacer un cambio de metodología más abiertas y colaborativas.