The Dutch Acceleration Plan aims to have teachers and students easily determine and use their optimal mix of learning materials by 2023. In 2020, working groups supported change, stimulated reuse of open educational resources, and professionalized working with OER. A vision was developed for making optimal use of digital learning materials by 2025, with 11 focus areas and 8 vision statements. Five building blocks were proposed to realize the vision from 2020-2025, including developing nationwide infrastructure for teachers to find, create, edit, and share various forms of open and closed content. Suggestions are sought to improve the vision and ideas for the infrastructure.

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Dutch Acceleration Plan: The Butterfly Effect 2.0
Lieke Rensink & Robert Schuwer

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Who are we?

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Agenda
• Acceleration Plan: what is it about?
• What is realised in 2020?
• What are your ideas and suggestions?

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The Cast
• Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS)
– 36 UoAS
• Association of Universities in the Netherlands
– 14 Universities
• The collaborative ICT organisation for Dutch education and research
(SURF)
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

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From agenda to plan
• May 2018: Launch Innovation Plan
• 8 Zones (topic area)
• Per zone a team
– Members from Dutch HE Institutions
– Team Captain
– Connector
• Program runs 1-1-2019 to 1-1-2023

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Towards digital (open) educational resources: participants

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Ambition
• By 2023 teachers and students will have the opportunity, in learning and
teaching processes, to easily determine and use their optimal mix of
learning materials.

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Learning
outcomes
Teaching and
learning activities Assessment
Constructive
Alignment
Closed Open
Infrastructure
(Technical, organisational, accommodating policy)
Learning materials
Principles

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What is realized in 2020?
• Working groups
– Support for change process
– Stimulating reuse
– Professionalise on working with OER
– Signalling and agenda-setting
– Communication and dissemination
– Towards a vision
– Infrastructure and content

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Towards a vision
• Horizon 2025
• Using digital learning materials: challenges and opportunities
• Board members of HE institutions want to take action
• Assignment:
– Develop a concrete vision on how higher education can make optimal
use of digital learning materials in education, with a roadmap for the
steps to be taken in the next 5 years
• Vision document is available in English translation very soon
• In parallel a study to map the current situation in Dutch HE. Chief
researcher Ben Janssen

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Vision
• 11 points of attention
• 8 vision statements
• 5 building blocks for realisation
• Priority

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Legislation & regulations
Economical &
financial
Technological infrastructure
Education strategy & policy
Culture & HRD
Organisation

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Legislation & regulations
Economical &
financial
Technological infrastructure
Education strategy & policy
Culture & HRD
Organisation
Vision on
learning
materials
(3x)
Re-
ward
InfrastructureTechnical
infrastructure
Payment by
institutions
System of
arrangements

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Five building blocks
• From now to 2025
• Every building block:
– Adresses one or more vision statements
– Touches on one or more points of attention

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Infrastructure
Technical
infrastructure
Payment by
institutions Re-
ward
System of
arrangements
Vision on
learning
materials
(3x)

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Infrastructure and content
Photo by Jared Murray on Unsplash

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Realize a nationwide
infrastructure where teachers
can find, create, edit and share
various forms of content in an
open setting or closed within a
group.
The content is open, semi-open
or commercial.

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2020
• Insight into the exact needs of lecturers
• Starting point
– professional communities
– collaboration
Activities
1. Requirement study
2. Content
3. Technical explorations
4. Professionalisation

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Existing infrastructure

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2021
1. Invest in innovation
2. Adoption and implementation infrastructure
3. Support
Activities
1. Innovation
2. Content
3. Nationwide support desk
4. Acceleration of Adoption

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What are your ideas and suggestions?
•Do you have any suggestions to improve our
vision or our ideas for the infrastructure?
–Approach?
–Tips and pitfalls?