This document summarizes a presentation about the ENCORE+ project, which is funded by the European Commission to support the use of open education resources (OER). The presentation discusses the goals of ENCORE+, which include catalyzing innovative practices with OER across education and business. It also outlines the partners involved in ENCORE+ and how it aims to address several European policy priorities related to education innovation.

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A Framework for Understanding
Innovation with OER
Open Education Global
Monday 23rd May 2022
Dr. Robert Farrow, The Open University (UK)

2. ENCORE+
European Network for Catalysing
Open Resources in Education
https://encoreproject.eu/

3. ENCORE+
ENCORE+ is a Knowledge Alliance project funded by the European
Commission under Erasmus+
● Supporting the uptake of open education resources (OER)
● Catalysing and sharing innovative practice across education and business
● Developing stakeholder communities for knowledge exchange
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Partners
● International Council for Distance Education (Norway)
● Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (Germany)
● The Open University (UK)
● Universidad Internacional De La Rioja (Spain)
● Knowledge 4 All Foundation (UK)
● Joubel (Norway)
● Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
● Instructure Global (UK)
● Dublin City University (Ireland)

5. ENCORE+
ENCORE+ directly addresses several European and international policy
priorities:
● Stimulating innovation in businesses through learning and training innovation
● Reducing barriers to education affording learners the opportunity to up-skill or
re-skill at a lower or nearly no cost, and in a flexible way
● Supporting the modernisation of higher education in Europe, including
digitalisation
● Bridging non-formal & formal education by advancing recognition of open
learning
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ENCORE+ Ecosystem
ENCORE+ will function as
a network catalyst for a socio-
technical ecosystem. That
means that ENCORE+’s main
mission will be to amplify
existing OER initiatives,
projects, platforms and
networks by integrating them
across the four
thematic Circle strands and
three crosscutting integration
events.

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8. The ENCORE+ ‘Innovation Pivot’
Desk research to identify drivers, enablers, barriers and challenges for
innovation through OER and provide evaluation criteria for identifying
outstanding examples of OER innovation.
● Regular Innovation Briefings (6 monthly)
● Innovation Report 2022
Future Circles:
● October 2022
● April 2023
Innovation Showcase April 2023
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9. The ENCORE+ ‘Innovation Pivot’
Creation of an OER innovation evaluation framework
● Develop theory/model of innovation
● Piloting and refinement of framework/tool
Highlight and amplify innovation & business model cases:
● Establishing key criteria for cases of interest
● Benchmarking technical innovation
● Connecting with external stakeholders
● Developing OER value proposition
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10. OER Innovation Evaluation Framework
Survey
Process
Results
Release CC BY
Framework
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11. OER Innovation Evaluation Framework
Survey
Process
Results
Release CC BY
Framework
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12. OER Innovation Evaluation Framework
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Who’s it for? Cases can be from any sector, including projects,
institutions, businesses or other initiatives
Which countries? Anywhere in the world!
Scale of implementation? Micro (Institutional / Local)
Meso (Regional / Federal)
Macro (National)
International
What kind of information is requested? Strategic approach
Innovation drivers/barriers
Business models
Value propositions
Technologies used
Approach to teaching & learning
Impact & diffusion

13. Strategic Approach (Defenders and Prospectors)
(Miles & Snow, 1978; Orr et al., 2018)
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14. OER Business Model Typology
(synthesis of Tlili et al., 2020; Padilla Rodriguez et al., 2018; Belleflamme & Jacqmin, 2015; Ubachs & Konings, 2016; Farrow, 2019)
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15. SAMR Model
Puentedura, 2013
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16. OER-based edupreuneurship
business models
Darwish, 2019
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17. OER-based edupreuneurship
business models
Darwish, 2019
• Substitution ☞ Static
• Augmentation ☞ Interactive
• Modification ☞ Dynamic
• Redefinition ☞ Transformative
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18. OER Innovation Evaluation Framework
Key challenges:
● Making framework accessible across education, business & other sectors
● Providing granular descriptions of sustainability drivers
● Getting stakeholder types right
● Capturing aspects of innovation culture
● Sensitivity to commercial insights/advantages
● Cognitive overload
Final release will include:
● The Business Model Canvas (Fielt, 2013; Osterwalder, 2010)
● Business Model for Sustainability (BMfS) (Täuscher & Abdelkafi, 2018)
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oofat.oerhub.net

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oofat.oerhub.net

21. OER Innovation Evaluation Framework
Please comment!
tinyurl.com/oerinnovation
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22. OER Innovation Evaluation Framework
Please comment!
tinyurl.com/oerinnovation
… and look out for the survey!
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23. Supporting ENCORE+
● Invite 5 personal contacts to join ENCORE+ Circles
● Subscribe to project channels (newsletter, blog)
● Share your experiences and inspiration!
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24. Project partners:
Thank You!

25. Project partners:
Contacts
Robert Farrow, The Open University (UK)
rob.farrow@open.ac.uk / @philosopher1978
Juliane Granly, ICDE
granly@icde.org
Website
For further and updated information
about this project please see:
www.encoreproject.eu
info@encoreproject.eu