Presentation Edmundo Tovar for the Open Education workshop at the #ocwcglobal conference in Ljubljana

1. Getting started with Open Education:
Everything you need to know to begin open
education projects at your institution
Getting practical support for OE projects at your
institution
Edmundo Tovar
edmundo.tovar@upm.es
OpenCourseWare in the European HE context
opencourseware.eu
with the support of the Lifelong Learning
Programme of the European Union
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LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
23 - 25 April 2014

2. • Participants are asked to identify the most
important issues in relation to starting with or
continuing with OE projects at their institutions
• Make a list of allies, advocates at their university
that can form a group to advance Open
Education: staff, faculty, administrators
Objectives

3. Page 3
Open Education in Wikipedia
“Open education is a collective term that refers to
educational organizations that seek to eliminate barriers
to entry. Such institutions, for example, would not have
academic admission requirements. Such programs are
commonly
distance learning programs like e-learning, mooc and
opencourseware, but not necessarily.”
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• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

4. Page 45
OER is NOT
Open Education
more components
are required …
• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

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Open Education (Supply)
Open
Education
OER
OLS OTE
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• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

6. Page 6
Open Learning Services (OLS)
Complementary to OER, free or to be
paid,
and including a variety of
online and virtual facilities for:
tutoring, advice, meetings, communities,
teamwork, presentations, testing,
examination, consulting sources,
internet navigation, etcetera …
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• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

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Open Teaching Efforts (OTE)
Complementary to OER and OLS, to be paid for,
referring to the human contribution
to the education provided,
the efforts of teachers, instructors, trainers,
developers, and support staff
in their various roles,
in a professional, open, and flexible
learning environment and culture.
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• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

8. Page 89
Open Education is NOT
Supply side only
should also include
Demand side …
• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

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Open Education (plus Demand)
Open
Education
OER
OLS OTE
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OLN OEC
Open to
Employability &
Capabilities
development
Open to
Learners’
Needs
Open
Learning
Services
Open
Teaching
Efforts
• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

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Open to Learners’ Needs (OLN)
Learners expect affordable, ‘do-able’,
good quality, interesting, beneficial education,
but also the ‘classical’ openness (OUs):
freedom of time / pace / place,
open entry, open programming,
and provisions for lifelong learning,
credentialing, smooth switching between
formal and informal learning,
etcetera …
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• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

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Open to Employability & Capabilities
development (OEC)
‘Society’ expects education to suit
the changing society and labour market,
the decisive role of knowledge and innovation,
and the influence of globalization,
but also to offer scope for new skills,
critical thinking, ethics, creativity,
personal growth, and citizenship.
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• Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chair in OER at OUNL
• (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010)
• OCWC Global 2013
• 8-10 May 2013

12. • Which is your list? (allies, advocates at their
university that can form a group to advance
Open Education)
• staff, faculty, administrators, students?
Objectives

13. Thanks
Partners
• Delft University of Technology
• Universidad Politécnica Madrid
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Université de Lyon, VetAgro Sup
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Creative Commons
opencourseware.eu
with the support of the Lifelong Learning
Programme of the European Union
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www.opencourseware.eu