Presentation given at OEGlobal Conference 2020, presenting the state of the art of the OEF project and some ideas to develop openness capacity of university educators.

1. Building Open Education Capacity Step
by Step: the Open Educators Factory
Approach
Fabio Nascimbeni & Daniel Burgos
Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR)

2. The increased urgency of building
educators’ openness capacities
2019 UNESCO OER Recommendation
The role of Open Education within the present wave of
online teaching (COVID)
Things will never be the same… so let’s make them better!

3. The “Open Educators Factory” project
- Working since 2016
- Hosted and funded by UNIR iTED
- Focused on different aspects of the work of “Open Educator”
- Applied research, through an online platform (+1300 users)

4. An Open Educator definition
An Open Educator choses to use open approaches, when possible and
appropriate, with the aim to remove all unnecessary barriers to learning.
Works through an open online identity and relies on online social networking to
enrich and implement work, understanding that collaboration bears a
responsibility towards the work of others.
Open design Open content
Open teaching Open assessment
4 components
Nascimbeni, F. and Burgos, D. (2016). In search for the Open Educator: proposal of a
definition and a framework to increase openness adoption among university educators.
IRRODL. Vol 17, N. 6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v17i6.2736.

5. The OEF framework
Design Content Teaching Assessment
Individual
designer
New to OER Traditional
teacher
Traditional
evaluator
Collaborative
designer
OER user Engaging
teacher
Innovative
evaluator
Open
designer
OER
specialist
Open
teacher
Open
evaluator
OPENNESS
Nascimbeni, F., Burgos, D., Campbell, L & Tabacco, A. (2018). Mapping Open Educational
Practices within universities: a case study. Distance Education, 39:4, 511-527, DOI:
10.1080/01587919.2018.1520040

6. OER and Open Teaching
Nascimbeni, F. and Burgos, D. (2019). Unveiling the Relationship between the Use of OER
and the Adoption of Open Teaching Practices in Higher Education. Sustainability, 11(20),
5637. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205637

7. The OEF platform for teachers
A) 5 minutes questionnaire
B) positioning feedback
C) Tailored recommendations
Platform URL: http://rd.unir.net/pub/oef

8. The OEF platform for leaders

9. Warnings & limitations
1. Each educator is different
2. Institutional context matters
3. Educators’ time is precious
4. Educators motivation for training is not granted

10. Why OEF
TAILORED: Openness has many “entry points”
GRADUAL: Appetizer to Openness
EMBEDABLE: In a specific course, throughout the
university…
OPEN PROJECT: open data policy

11. Credits, Links & Contacts
Project funded by
Platform URL: http://rd.unir.net/pub/oef
Contacts:
• Fabio Nascimbeni, Fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net
• Daniel Burgos, Daniel.burgos@unir.net