This presenation was given 26 June 2014 by my project colleague Mart Achten, Educational Development Unit, at Leuven University, Belgium. It summarizes how the EU-funded initiative VMPass supporting the recognition of learning outcomes achieved through open learning and virtual mobility can benefit her university and relates to on-going activities.

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Context and benefits of VM-PASS at KU Leuven
Mart Achten, Educational DevelopmentUnit
26 June2014

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Learning Passport– usage scenarios
• ForOE providers
• ForRecognition officers

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Open CourseWare at KU Leuven
An OpenCourseWare(OCW) is afree
and open digital publicationof high qualitycollege and
university‐leveleducational materials. These materials are
organizedas courses,and often includecourseplanning
materialsand evaluation tools aswell
asthematic content.
OpenCourseWareare free and openly licensed, accessible to
anyone,anytime via the internet.

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Facts & Figures OCW KU Leuven 2011 – 2014
Courses online
in Dutch/ Eng
Basis/ Advanced / LLL
Faculties involved
Weblectures online
Member ofOCW Consortium in BE
MOOC pilot (“Literature and Change in
Europe”; Faculty of Arts)
9
3 / 6
4 / 1 / 4
5
>90
1st
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SPOCs pilot project
• 2014 – 2015: 4 SmallPrivate OnlineCourses
• Specifictarget audiences
• Highlyinteractive
• Evaluation/ certification

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Recognitionof Prior Learning at KU Leuven
“Article56.Exemptiononthegroundsofpreviously
acquiredcompetencesthatarenotsupportedbyacredit
certificateorstudycertificate”

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Recognitionof openlearning
• Similarto RPL
• LearningPassport: simplifyprocedure?