The objective of this workshop is to give the participants an opportunity to imagine and recreate their work and business as Open. The workshop is focused on Open Educational Resources (OER), and on its applicability and benefit to business, innovation and technology in lifelong learning. This workshop is designed to take the participants through a simulation experience, where each participant will imagine the business potential, innovation potential and technological changes available and possible for their work to be open (more open). The workshop is facilitated by the European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+). ENCORE+ is a European Commission funded project, aimed at establishing a European OER Ecosystem, for both academia and business. The participants will be presented with research and findings from the project, directly linked to enabling their work to be open, profitable and innovative. Representatives from ENCORE+ business partners will showcase real-life examples of how OER is integral to their work and business as part of the introduction to the workshop. The workshop is suited to all participants who are interested in OER, regardless of knowledge and experience with OER. The workshop is interactive, with practical simulation tasks guided by ENCORE+ facilitators and ENCORE+ OER research.

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Your Place in the Open
Ecosystem
Dr. Rob Farrow, ENCORE+ & OUUK, United Kingdom
Fiona Schmidbauer, ENCORE+ & DHBW, Germany
Paz Díez Arcón, ENCORE+ & K4A, United Kingdom
Sahan Bulathwela, K4A & UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence, UK
Juliane Granly, ENCORE+ & ICDE (Project Coordinator), Norway

2. Introduction to ENCORE+
… and each other

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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4. 5
The ENCORE+
Network
ENCORE+ is an open,
collaborative network,
bringing together
stakeholders around Europe
in discussions, events, and
research.

5. 6
The ENCORE+
Network
OER Focus themes:
- Policies & Practice
- Quality
- Technology
- Innovation & Business
Models
Integrated through three
crosscutting integrated
issues:
- Business innovation
and employment
- Innovation in higher
Education
- Business-university
cooperation

7. Open Educational Resources
A brief introduction

8. 9
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/27/dungeons-dragons-creative-commons-license/

9. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research
materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that are in the public
domain and/or released under an open license that permits no-cost
access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited
restrictions. They are free at the point of use and ‘free’ in the sense that
they provide users with greater freedoms in how resources are shared,
used, customised and iterated.
Compatible definitions of OER are provided by UNESCO, Hewlett
Foundation and OER Commons.
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10. 5Rs of OER
The right to...
● Retain means that the resource can be freely copied, downloaded and stored;
● Reuse allows resources to be used in different contexts (classroom; home; online, &c.)
in an unaltered format;
● Revise conveys that the content can be altered, edited, revised or otherwise changed
(e.g. to update or translate a resource);
● Remix permits a resource to be combined with other resources to create something new
(e.g. an anthology, remix or ‘mash-up’);
● Redistribute enables the republishing and sharing of a resource
(in original or altered forms).
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11. Benefits of OER
There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that OER have a positive effect on
learning and teaching without compromising quality (e.g. de los Arcos et al.,
2014; Hilton, 2016; Weller et al., 2015; Wiley, 2015).
When embedded in the right organisational culture, the benefits of OER include:
● Improved access to education and training
● Dramatically reducing the cost of educational and training materials
● Facilitating more diverse input into the creation of learning materials
● Efficient use and reuse of intellectual property
● Greater opportunity for synchronous and asynchronous learning
● Pedagogical innovation and critical reflection
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12. Benefits of OER
There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that OER have a positive effect on
learning and teaching without compromising quality (e.g. de los Arcos et al.,
2014; Hilton, 2016; Weller et al., 2015; Wiley, 2015).
When embedded in the right organisational culture, the benefits of OER include:
● More flexibility in provision in education and training
● Facilitating translation and adaptation of resources for different markets
● More responsive design and calibration of education and training materials
● Flexible integration into learning management systems and platforms
● Transparency/publicity in the creation and use of educational resources
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13. The Open University (UK)
● Launched in 1969, OU has educated more than 2.3 million and is one
of the largest European universities with more than 200,000 students.
● History of innovation in flexible & technology enhanced learning
● Open admissions policy: supports progression from older learners
● Largest educator of disabled learners (35,000+ declare a disability)
● OpenLearn, a free learning resources website from the OU, has had
105 million visits since its launch in 2006
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/
● Coordinates outreach projects in the Global South, many using OER
https://www.open.ac.uk/about/international-development/projects-and-
programmes
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14. Activity 1
Generate workshop concepts for lifelong learning
● Examples of activities that support LLL
● Think about stakeholders
● Conceptualise as a business, project or initiative

15. Lifelong Learning: Concepts
Continuous Professional
Development
● Deliberate attempts to update
skills and knowledge
● Training, workshops
● Recognition & accreditation
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Self Directed Learning
● Active learning following
personal or professional
interest
● Private study
● Personal development
planning (PDP)
● Online courses (e.g. MOOCs)

16. Lifelong Learning: Concepts
Career Guidance
● Reflecting on skills and areas
for growth
● Raise awareness of options
● Labour market matching
● Improve employability
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Quality of Life
● Lifelong learning as a route to
more fulfilled existence
● Growth mindset
● Reflective practice

17. Lifelong Learning: Concepts
Mentoring & Coaching
● Guidance, support and
feedback
● Training, workshops,
accreditation
● Achieving fuller potential
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Apprenticeship / Internship
● Independent or Cooperative
● Alternative routes for
progression
● Experiential learning

18. Lifelong Learning: Concepts
Quality Assurance
● Maintaining standards in
lifelong learning
● Evaluation
● Feedback loops
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Online Learning
● Widening participation
● More flexible opportunities
● Virtual communities

19. Open Technologies for
Lifelong Learning
What can open approaches offer?

20. Knowledge 4 All
● K4A was founded in 2009 by partners in PASCAL Research
Network of Excellence
● UNESCO chairs in Open Educational Resources & Artificial
Intelligence
● Committed with the SDG: “to ensure inclusive and equitable quality
education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”
● Open-source software
● Activities
1) Development of Machine Learning methods, tools, and software
2) Integration of those into large applications for open education
● Impact on OERs / Lifelong Learning
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21. Educational Services for Lifelong Learners
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Services Technologies Business
models
Place of OERs
Viblio
www.viblio.co
m
Recommendation
s + Automatic
interview to get
personality traits +
expert’s collection
of resources
Semantic
technology +
Machine Learning
+ Future
investment
Transformative Planning to use a
OER repository to
extend the content
used
Atingi
www.atingi.or
g
Flexible &
personalised
learning options +
implementation
via open-source
LMS
Open-source LMS
+ Future:
centralised OER
repository
Dynamic →
Transformative
Planning to use a
OER repository to
provide additional
services
eDoer
https://labs.tib.
eu/edoer/
Personalised
curricula based on
personal learning
contexts
Algorithms
development for
different
functionalities
Transformative Planning to
integrate OERs in
their services

22. Activity 2
What kind of (open) technologies can be used to
support our LLL activities and concepts?
● Think which technology-supported services could
be developed to support Lifelong Learners’
activities and concepts
● How can open technologies address these?

23. Supporting lifelong learning
with OER
Opportunities for synergy

24. LLL and OER at DHBW
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OER

25. Open Education Stakeholders (UPIG/CPIG)
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Users
Learners
(formal/informal)
Educators
Instructional Designers
/ Technologists
Workers
Trainers
Providers
Libraries / Collections /
Repositories
Course providers
Ed Tech companies
Service providers
Infrastructure
providers
Publishers
(commercial/OER)
Support staff
Influencers
Policymakers
Funders/Philanthropy
Charities / NGOs
(macro/micro)
Lobbyists
Leaders
Parents
External actors
Media
Governance
HEI leaders, decision
makers
Copyright/Data
Officers
Educational authorities
Ministries
Quality assurance
agencies
Management
Institutional actors

26. Activity 3
How could open resources (OER) be used to
support the concept/activity?

27. OER: Relation to lifelong learning
● Lower cost routes to delivering online, blended distance learning
● Supporting student readiness through non-formal learning opportunities
● Providing access to education for disadvantaged peoples
● Supporting diversity and inclusion throughout learning and teaching
processes
● Removing barriers to collaboration between institutions, individuals, countries
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28. Business Models &
Open Innovation
Rethinking practice as ‘open’

29. OER Business Model Typology
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Externally funded Internally funded Community funded Service Models
Donations model Institutional model Community owned
infrastructure
Data exploitation
model
Governmental model Substitutions model Membership model Dual mode university
Sponsorship /
Advertising model
Author Pays model Platformisation Freemium
Online programme
Segmentation model

30. OER-based
edupreuneurship business
models
Darwish, 2019
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31. OER-based
edupreuneurship business
models
Darwish, 2019
Cross-referenced with SAMR
• Substitution ☞ Static
• Augmentation ☞ Interactive
• Modification ☞ Dynamic
• Redefinition ☞
Transformative
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32. Lifelong Learning: Service Vectors for OER
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Accreditation & Recognition Platformisation
Authentication Proctoring
Authoring & Publication Quality assurance
Course authoring & remix Rapid reskilling
Curation Self-directed learning
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Teaching
Forecasting & Needs analysis Training
Learning pathways Translation
Lifelong learning TVET

33. ICDE Open Innovation Framework
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Ossiannilsson, E., Martins Gomes de Gusmão, C., Leonor
Ulloa-Cazarez, R., & Obiageli Agbu, J.-F. (2022). ICDE
OERAC: Open Science, Open Educational Resources, and
Open Innovation. International Council for Open and
Distance Education. ISBN: 978-82-93172-50-5.
https://www.icde.org/knowledge-hub/open-innovation-
framework-oerac-2022

34. ICDE Open Innovation Framework
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35. ICDE Open Innovation Framework
1. Raise awareness to create legal frameworks and guidelines at the
federal level to increase openness in government and public
agencies.
(nb. role of OER post Covid-19)
1. In collaboration with relevant international organizations, provide
support to countries that adopt Recommendation 1.
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36. ICDE Open Innovation Framework
3. Create an incentive structure for companies, institutions, and
individuals to create OER and open repositories.
4. Translations and contextualization, are essential for implementation
and integration of Open Innovation.
5. Update institutional documentation to ensure inclusion of the three
cornerstones. The three cornerstones require an operational
environment that encourages the creation, practice, and use of OER,
Open Science, and Open Innovation.
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37. Activity 4
How can open innovation be facilitated in our
examples? Is this desirable?

38. Supporting Innovation with OER
● Raise awareness of open alternatives
● Empower individuals in ways that enable them to exercise autonomy
● Encourage experimentation in pedagogy and practice
● Develop constructive, critical learning cultures
● Think and act at the level of the ecosystem
● Leverage the power of networks
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Farrow, R. (2017) Open education and critical pedagogy, Learning, Media and Technology, 42:2, 130-
146, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2016.1113991
Deimann, M., & Farrow, R. (2013). Rethinking OER and their use: Open education as Bildung. The
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(3), 344-360.
https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v14i3.1370

39. Feedback and Discussion

40. Outputs

44. Wrapping Up
Staying involved in ENCORE+

45. UNESCO Recommendation on OER (1300)
This Recommendation addresses five objectives: (i) building capacity of
stakeholders to create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute OER; (ii)
developing supportive policy; (iii) encouraging inclusive and equitable
quality OER; (iv) nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER,
and (v) facilitating international cooperation
https://www.unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/recommendation-open-
educational-resources-oer
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46. Don’t miss the OER LLL Panel (1500)
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47. E+ Position Papers and Project Publications
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48. Supporting ENCORE+
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● Come to our events
https://encoreproject.eu/events/
● Invite 5 personal contacts to join
● Subscribe to project channels (newsletter, blog)
https://encoreproject.eu/news
● Share your experiences and inspiration!

49. Project
partners:
Contacts
Juliane Granly, ICDE
granly@icde.org
info@encoreproject.eu
Website
For further and updated information
about this project please see:
www.encoreproject.eu