- Romania has embraced open education and implemented several initiatives to promote open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs).
- Key initiatives include the Knowledge Based Economy Project, the establishment of the Romanian Coalition for OER, and projects run by universities to develop OERs and offer MOOCs.
- Barriers remain including a lack of policy support and focus on pre-university education rather than higher education. However, universities are starting to integrate MOOCs into blended courses to provide benefits to both students and teachers.
Presentation held at the webinar "Online Teaching Reshape Education during and after COVID-19", jointly held by UNESCO-ICHEI, UNESCO IITE, INRULED, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Tsinghua University China. There were launched six guidelines for teachers, students, parents and communities, principals and educational administrators, learning technologies and platforms, and personal data security.
Also the webinar bring together educational actors worldwide to talk about their experiences and lessons learned regarding online teaching during COVID-19 and share their views on how these will reshape education.
Romania and online learning during the coronavirus outbreakGabriela Grosseck
presentation during the "How to Keep Students Learning during Schools Disruption in COVID-19 Situation" event, organized by the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University.
A Tool for Determining an Optimal Model of Student Engagement in Wikis for Le...Cristina Felea
Paper presented at the 10th eLearning and Software for Education Conference - eLSE 2014, Bucharest 24-25 April
The problem of learners’ engagement is receiving renewed attention against the background of the transition from traditional to technology enhanced learning environments and the ensuing shift from the transmission to the (co)construction of knowledge model in teaching/learning.
Recent studies on the use of social media for academic purposes have also revealed transformations in student and teacher roles and behavior. This study is part of an ongoing research on various pedagogical aspects related to early adoption of Web 2.0 tools (wikis) in a blended language learning program of English for Academic Purposes attended by undergraduate students in social sciences in a Romanian university.
The authors’ prior research on student behavior suggested low participation levels during the semester and high activity under the pressure of finals. Our current objective is to continue the research in an attempt to provide a more accurate learner profile that could help teachers improve the learning environment to further activate their students.
We applied the ROC analysis, a cost/benefit analysis of diagnostic decision making, in order to diagnose the features of students who would use successfully a Web 2.0 tool for learning. The study aims to exemplify how ROC analysis can be used to offer a classification of students with positive/negative inclinations to adopt a Web 2.0 tool by eliminating the false positives,respectively the false negatives.
Consequently, it may become a tool to select a possible optimal model to be considered in the process of needs analysis and of taking important decisions regarding teaching methods, course contents and design.
Project EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Development and Research in Machine Le...Nelly Cardinale, Ed.D.
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2005
Publisher: American Society of Engineering Education in Washington, DC
Authors: Anagnostopoulos, GC, Georgiopoulos M, Ports K, Richie S, Cardinale N, White M, Kepuska V, Chan PK, Wu A, Kysilka M
Conference Name: Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition : The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World (2005)
Session type: Capstone & Educational Resource Developments (pp. 11749-11757)
Session: # 3232
Date Published: June 12-15,2005
Conference Location: Portland, Oregon June 12-15, 2005
URL: http://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/papers/asee05.pdf
Transformations of learning ecosystems induced by COVID-19: reflections and f...Diana Andone
Transformations of learning ecosystems induced by COVID-19: reflections and future perspectives presentation by Dr. Diana Andone, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, during the Open round table in 29 June 2020, part of
5th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystem and Regional Development
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES, LUDIC AND CO-DESIGN STRATEGIES & TOOLS SUPPORTING SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AND SMART EDUCATION
Bucharest 2020, 25-27 May
Presentation held at the webinar "Online Teaching Reshape Education during and after COVID-19", jointly held by UNESCO-ICHEI, UNESCO IITE, INRULED, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Tsinghua University China. There were launched six guidelines for teachers, students, parents and communities, principals and educational administrators, learning technologies and platforms, and personal data security.
Also the webinar bring together educational actors worldwide to talk about their experiences and lessons learned regarding online teaching during COVID-19 and share their views on how these will reshape education.
Romania and online learning during the coronavirus outbreakGabriela Grosseck
presentation during the "How to Keep Students Learning during Schools Disruption in COVID-19 Situation" event, organized by the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University.
A Tool for Determining an Optimal Model of Student Engagement in Wikis for Le...Cristina Felea
Paper presented at the 10th eLearning and Software for Education Conference - eLSE 2014, Bucharest 24-25 April
The problem of learners’ engagement is receiving renewed attention against the background of the transition from traditional to technology enhanced learning environments and the ensuing shift from the transmission to the (co)construction of knowledge model in teaching/learning.
Recent studies on the use of social media for academic purposes have also revealed transformations in student and teacher roles and behavior. This study is part of an ongoing research on various pedagogical aspects related to early adoption of Web 2.0 tools (wikis) in a blended language learning program of English for Academic Purposes attended by undergraduate students in social sciences in a Romanian university.
The authors’ prior research on student behavior suggested low participation levels during the semester and high activity under the pressure of finals. Our current objective is to continue the research in an attempt to provide a more accurate learner profile that could help teachers improve the learning environment to further activate their students.
We applied the ROC analysis, a cost/benefit analysis of diagnostic decision making, in order to diagnose the features of students who would use successfully a Web 2.0 tool for learning. The study aims to exemplify how ROC analysis can be used to offer a classification of students with positive/negative inclinations to adopt a Web 2.0 tool by eliminating the false positives,respectively the false negatives.
Consequently, it may become a tool to select a possible optimal model to be considered in the process of needs analysis and of taking important decisions regarding teaching methods, course contents and design.
Project EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Development and Research in Machine Le...Nelly Cardinale, Ed.D.
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2005
Publisher: American Society of Engineering Education in Washington, DC
Authors: Anagnostopoulos, GC, Georgiopoulos M, Ports K, Richie S, Cardinale N, White M, Kepuska V, Chan PK, Wu A, Kysilka M
Conference Name: Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition : The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World (2005)
Session type: Capstone & Educational Resource Developments (pp. 11749-11757)
Session: # 3232
Date Published: June 12-15,2005
Conference Location: Portland, Oregon June 12-15, 2005
URL: http://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/papers/asee05.pdf
Transformations of learning ecosystems induced by COVID-19: reflections and f...Diana Andone
Transformations of learning ecosystems induced by COVID-19: reflections and future perspectives presentation by Dr. Diana Andone, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, during the Open round table in 29 June 2020, part of
5th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystem and Regional Development
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES, LUDIC AND CO-DESIGN STRATEGIES & TOOLS SUPPORTING SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AND SMART EDUCATION
Bucharest 2020, 25-27 May
Building up a Digital Education Eco-systemDiana Andone
Building up a Digital Education Eco-system teh Politehnica University Experience
by Dr. Andrei Ternauciuc, Dr. Diana Andone
Distance education and online learning history at the Politehnica University of Timisoara was initiated more than two decades ago, with a vision on opening up traditional Romanian higher education. And more than half of this time was invested in Moodle's challenging orbit and its development. Launching the Virtual Campus for Digital Students - ViCaDiS platform in 2007, as a result of our research, continuing with the highly successful Virtual Campus of the Politehnica University of Timisoara (CVUPT) platform, and getting to our latest Moodle-based endeavour - the Open Virtual Mobility Learning Hub, we grew alongside Moodle's ever-helpful community. Thanks to its open status, we were able to mould the world's leading learning environment into the tool most of our students know and (mostly) love. The road has not always been easy, but thanks to the well-meaning people behind the plugins and the forum posts, we were able to accomplish our learning process goals of honing a complex and complete instrument for online learning. We also learned to fend for ourselves by adapting or even designing from the ground up the functionalities we greatly required, always for the benefit of our students. Our actions have always been towards introducing, supporting and advocating the open education principles in our work, research and development. In the last months, due to the pandemic time and the complete move to online education, we performed a major scalability of our learning environments into what it is now the Politehnica University of Timisoara Digital Eco-system. This scalability and increase will be presented at the Global MoodleMoot 2020. https://moodle.com/events/global-online/
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPTDiana Andone
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPT, experienta UPT in constructia educatiei digitale
prezentata de Diana Andone, UPT
la Workshopul "Experiența privind educația online la nivel universitar în România. Provocări și perspective viitoare: organizata de Asociatai Tine de Noi, 9 iulie 2020, online
Renewable Assignments as Open Education Practices for StudentsDiana Andone
Presentation of Renewable Assignments as Open Education Practices for Students, done by Dr. Diana Andone, Politehnica University of Timisoara on August 19, 2021 at the 2021 Global Smart Education Conference , online, Beijing Normal University, China
Students Co-creators of Digital EducationDiana Andone
Presentation "Students Co-creators of Digital Education" by Dr. Diana Andone, Politehnica University of Timisoara, done at "ALTA’21 - Advanced Learning Technologies and Applications. From Distance to Hybrid Learning” on December 1st 2021 Lithuania, online Conference Conference organized by
Informatics Faculty at Kaunas University of Technology and National Association of Distance Education Lithuania.
Emerging Technologies in Education. Conceiving and Building a Microblogging P...Carmen Holotescu
PhD Thesis, Magna cum laude
Full thesis at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260436339_Emerging_Technologies_in_Education._Conceiving_and_Building_a_Microblogging_Platform_for_Formal_and_Informal_Learning.
Presentation for ELSE Conference, Bucharest, 21 April 2021 Together online in education by Diana Andone, Vlad Mihaescu, Radu Vasiu, Silviu Vert, Andrei Ternauciuc
Politehnica University of Timisoara
Romania
The impact of data in culture and creative industries - WiDSCEEDiana Andone
The impact of data in culture and creative industries presentation at Women in Data Science in Central and Eastern Europe, part of the WiDS Global action, 8 March 2021 https://widscee.wixsite.com/about
IEEE Day 2020IEEE si educatia digitala /deschisaDiana Andone
Prezentarea dr.ing. Diana Andone, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, dedicata IEEE Day 2020despre IEEE si educatia digitala /deschisa, parte din XV webinar Impreuna Online
Digital Education in Politehnica University of TimisoaraDiana Andone
Digital Education in Politehnica University of Timisoara, by Dr. Diana Andone, eLearning Center, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
presentation as keynote to EDEN 2020 International Conference, 22 June 2020,
on Digitisation, Digitalisation and Digital Transformation, the projects that supported it , Virtual Campus of UPT, virtual mobilities, OERs and MOOCS, students as co-creators
Politehnica University of Timisoara Impact on Learning Technologies in RomaniaDiana Andone
Presentation at the opening of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT2017), Timisoara, Romania, 3 – 7 July, 2017.
Focus on main developments in UPT by the e-Learning Center, the actions for open education enhancement from the technology, quality, leadership and strategy dimensions. Technology and leadership steps toward an Open Life Long Learning Student with 21st century skills and abilities to learn independently and digital all their life.
MOOCs for Professional Development: Transformative Learning Environments and ...SJSU School of Information
Dr. Michael Stephens participated on a panel discussing the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for professional development at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 80th General Conference and Assembly, held in Lyon, France from Aug. 16, 2014 to Aug. 22, 2014. Stephens presented some of his findings from his ongoing research with The Hyperlinked Library MOOC. “The panel in France was also about the broader idea that large scale learning is something that information professionals should be using, and about how it supports professional development,” said Stephens. An assistant professor at the San Jose State University School of Information, Stephens teaches courses in the iSchool's exclusively online Master of Library and Information Science degree program.
Presentation for the Analysis of Societies: Transformation, technology and education panel, Near East University, 18 May, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNN6rQjTI0s
Building up a Digital Education Eco-systemDiana Andone
Building up a Digital Education Eco-system teh Politehnica University Experience
by Dr. Andrei Ternauciuc, Dr. Diana Andone
Distance education and online learning history at the Politehnica University of Timisoara was initiated more than two decades ago, with a vision on opening up traditional Romanian higher education. And more than half of this time was invested in Moodle's challenging orbit and its development. Launching the Virtual Campus for Digital Students - ViCaDiS platform in 2007, as a result of our research, continuing with the highly successful Virtual Campus of the Politehnica University of Timisoara (CVUPT) platform, and getting to our latest Moodle-based endeavour - the Open Virtual Mobility Learning Hub, we grew alongside Moodle's ever-helpful community. Thanks to its open status, we were able to mould the world's leading learning environment into the tool most of our students know and (mostly) love. The road has not always been easy, but thanks to the well-meaning people behind the plugins and the forum posts, we were able to accomplish our learning process goals of honing a complex and complete instrument for online learning. We also learned to fend for ourselves by adapting or even designing from the ground up the functionalities we greatly required, always for the benefit of our students. Our actions have always been towards introducing, supporting and advocating the open education principles in our work, research and development. In the last months, due to the pandemic time and the complete move to online education, we performed a major scalability of our learning environments into what it is now the Politehnica University of Timisoara Digital Eco-system. This scalability and increase will be presented at the Global MoodleMoot 2020. https://moodle.com/events/global-online/
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPTDiana Andone
Dezvoltarea Eco-sistemului Educatie Digitala UPT, experienta UPT in constructia educatiei digitale
prezentata de Diana Andone, UPT
la Workshopul "Experiența privind educația online la nivel universitar în România. Provocări și perspective viitoare: organizata de Asociatai Tine de Noi, 9 iulie 2020, online
Renewable Assignments as Open Education Practices for StudentsDiana Andone
Presentation of Renewable Assignments as Open Education Practices for Students, done by Dr. Diana Andone, Politehnica University of Timisoara on August 19, 2021 at the 2021 Global Smart Education Conference , online, Beijing Normal University, China
Students Co-creators of Digital EducationDiana Andone
Presentation "Students Co-creators of Digital Education" by Dr. Diana Andone, Politehnica University of Timisoara, done at "ALTA’21 - Advanced Learning Technologies and Applications. From Distance to Hybrid Learning” on December 1st 2021 Lithuania, online Conference Conference organized by
Informatics Faculty at Kaunas University of Technology and National Association of Distance Education Lithuania.
Emerging Technologies in Education. Conceiving and Building a Microblogging P...Carmen Holotescu
PhD Thesis, Magna cum laude
Full thesis at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260436339_Emerging_Technologies_in_Education._Conceiving_and_Building_a_Microblogging_Platform_for_Formal_and_Informal_Learning.
Presentation for ELSE Conference, Bucharest, 21 April 2021 Together online in education by Diana Andone, Vlad Mihaescu, Radu Vasiu, Silviu Vert, Andrei Ternauciuc
Politehnica University of Timisoara
Romania
The impact of data in culture and creative industries - WiDSCEEDiana Andone
The impact of data in culture and creative industries presentation at Women in Data Science in Central and Eastern Europe, part of the WiDS Global action, 8 March 2021 https://widscee.wixsite.com/about
IEEE Day 2020IEEE si educatia digitala /deschisaDiana Andone
Prezentarea dr.ing. Diana Andone, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, dedicata IEEE Day 2020despre IEEE si educatia digitala /deschisa, parte din XV webinar Impreuna Online
Digital Education in Politehnica University of TimisoaraDiana Andone
Digital Education in Politehnica University of Timisoara, by Dr. Diana Andone, eLearning Center, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
presentation as keynote to EDEN 2020 International Conference, 22 June 2020,
on Digitisation, Digitalisation and Digital Transformation, the projects that supported it , Virtual Campus of UPT, virtual mobilities, OERs and MOOCS, students as co-creators
Politehnica University of Timisoara Impact on Learning Technologies in RomaniaDiana Andone
Presentation at the opening of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT2017), Timisoara, Romania, 3 – 7 July, 2017.
Focus on main developments in UPT by the e-Learning Center, the actions for open education enhancement from the technology, quality, leadership and strategy dimensions. Technology and leadership steps toward an Open Life Long Learning Student with 21st century skills and abilities to learn independently and digital all their life.
MOOCs for Professional Development: Transformative Learning Environments and ...SJSU School of Information
Dr. Michael Stephens participated on a panel discussing the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for professional development at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 80th General Conference and Assembly, held in Lyon, France from Aug. 16, 2014 to Aug. 22, 2014. Stephens presented some of his findings from his ongoing research with The Hyperlinked Library MOOC. “The panel in France was also about the broader idea that large scale learning is something that information professionals should be using, and about how it supports professional development,” said Stephens. An assistant professor at the San Jose State University School of Information, Stephens teaches courses in the iSchool's exclusively online Master of Library and Information Science degree program.
Presentation for the Analysis of Societies: Transformation, technology and education panel, Near East University, 18 May, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNN6rQjTI0s
The power of the three words and one acronym: OER vs OERCarmen Holotescu
The power of the three words and one acronym: OER vs OER. Subtitle: I’m not an Ogre of the Enchanted Realm (of cyberspace). I’m an Omnipresent Educational Rescuer (because I use the OER!)
Presentation at WCES 2014, 6-9 February, Malta
Full paper at http://www.scribd.com/doc/210088165/The-power-of-the-three-words-and-one-acronym-OER-vs-OER-Subtitle-I-m-not-an-Ogre-of-the-Enchanted-Realm-of-cyberspace-I-m-an-Omnipresent-Educati
Open Educational Resources, relation with FLOSS; a pilot program for Romanian teachers about using OER and new technologies in education
Presentation at eLiberatica, Brasov, Romania - 2007
Citations: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Open+Educational+Resources+and+FLOSS%22+holotescu&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for Language Learning and CommunicationGabriela Grosseck
workshop at PCTS9 - International Conference about Language and Communication in the Digital Era, Politehnica University Timisoara, 26-27 March 2015, http://www.cls.upt.ro/files/cls/PCTS9/9th%20PCTS%20Conference%20-%201st%20call%20EN.pdf
MOOCs for Innovative Entrepreneurship in Smart CitiesCarmen Holotescu
Presented at the 8th World Conference on Educational Sciences - WCES2016
4-6 February 2016 Madrid, Spain
Published on WJET - http://sproc.org/ojs/index.php/wjet/article/view/832
MOOC's Anatomy. Microblogging as the MOOC's Control CenterCarmen Holotescu
Paper for the 9th eLearning and Software for Education Conference - eLSE 2013 - organized by the Romanian Advanced Distributed Learning Association in Bucharest, April 25th - 26th, 2013.
OERs and MOOCs – the Romanian experience Diana Andone
OERs and MOOCs – the Romanian experience paper, authors Radu Vasiu, Diana Andone, presented at International Conference on Web & Open Access to Learning, 24-27 November 2014, Dubai, UEA.
Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides opportunities for collaboration both in the classroom and beyond. Started in 2008 and gathering momentum over the past two years, now an online phenomenon, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) reunite different perspectives over a globalized online learning. The paper analyses the use of OER and MOOCs in different study cases in Romanian universities. Several OER initiatives resulted from the over 1000 academia involved in the DidaTec lifelong learning and training for higher education teachers in the technical sciences and engineering field as a training course for university professors in 12 universities, within the aim of improving the use of ICT in higher education. Four universities from Romania started a Romanian MOOC environment, the UniCampus, which provides free access to valuable education in Romanian language, presented by well-known professors. The evaluation and quality assurance challenges of the Unicampus are mainly due to the restrictive educational setting in Romania. Two study cases on blending MOOCs in traditional higher education courses at undergraduate and Master level are also analysed from the impact on students’ motivation. Integrating MOOCs in blended learning empower students with new abilities and requires a new and open teacher model.
Nations and regions using less used languages - sidelined in open education?icdeslides
While production and use of Open Education Resources are coming closer to a tipping point, in particular in english speaking areas - nations and regions using less used languages seem to by bypassed by development - and potential not in the position to share the benefits from modern education and learning. However, good examples exist, as the Netherlands. Which policies might be necessary to change the situation in areas lagging? Reviewing policy advices in light of the recent development - this presentation and action lab will consider policy advices to be released now. This is a LangOER action, presented and supported by LangOER, Open Education Consortium and ICDE in partnership.
Thoughts on Future University in 2030 Keynote Speaker Presentation for the ICIER International Conference on Interdisciplinary Educational Reflections 9 June 2022, virtual
"OER Open Educational Resources and FLOSS" by Carmen Holotescu @ eLiberatica ...eLiberatica
This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2007.
http://www.eliberatica.ro/2007/
One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions.
The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.
Presentation of Diana Andone, EDEN Vice-president, PUT for the Open Education Week's third day webinar on "Open Education for Civil Engagement and Democracy" - 4 March 2020, 15:00 CET
More information and recordings of the discussion are available: http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/open-education-for-civil-engagement-and-democracy/
Similar to Key features of Open Education in Romania (20)
Przeentare susținută în cadrul Conferinței ”Educație azi in Timisoara Culturii Europene” organizată la inițiativa Departamentului pentru Pregătirea Personalului Didactic din Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara în data de 26 noiembrie 2021.
Promovarea creativității prin utilizarea Resurselor Educaționale DeschiseGabriela Grosseck
Prezentare în cadrul webinarului OpenEducationWeek, Educatia deschisa in timpul pandemiei, https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/comunitate/workshop-oeweek-educatia-deschisa-in-timpul-pandemiei/
RESET education - challenges and lessons learnt in RomaniaGabriela Grosseck
Webinar “The Future of Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era in China and Central Eastern Europe Countries” organized by Smart Learning Institute, Normal Beijing University and UNESCO INRULED.
New book “Comparative Analysis of ICT in Education Between China and Central and Eastern European Countries” (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811568787)
O lista la nivelul anului 2018, ce necesita actualizare de aplicatii utile pentru crearea diverselor tipuri de resurse educationale dar nu numai. Pot fi folosite si pentru lucrul in colaborare, testare, evaluare cu nota sau doar pentru dezmortirea lectiilor sau obtinerea de feedback. Orice sugestie este binevenita in partea de comentarii
Prezentare sustinuta in cadrul webinarului Impreuna Online, https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/comunitate/noutati-comunitate/webinar-impreunaonline-utilizare-oers-moocs-in-educatie/
Echipa proiectului NOVAMOOC: Dezvoltarea și implementarea inovativă a MOOCurilor în învățământul superior a Universității de Vest din Timișoara vă invită să participați la atelierul:
MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses): inițiere pentru profesori
Pe parcursul celor două ore de atelier, vom vorbi despre ce sunt MOOC-urile, cum le putem accesa, utiliza și integra în educația universitară, și ce putem învăța din experiența altor instituții educaționale / universități ale Europei și din lume.
Pe plan internațional, pe fondul unei deschideri a educației, a unor politici care sprijină pedagogiile și resursele educaționale deschise, ultimii ani au marcat o creștere exponențială în oferta de cursuri online masive deschise (Massive Open Online Courses - MOOCs).
Prezenta lucrare propune modalități în care cursurile online masive deschise pot fi integrate în educația adulților în România.
Prin analiza unor articole și studii de cercetare recente, sunt relevate proiecte din spațiul educațional nord-american și european, în care astfel de cursuri contribuie la învățarea continuă.
De asemenea, sunt prezentate inițiative românești legate de MOOC-uri.
Lucrarea își propune să răspundă la întrebări cum ar fi:
• Cum pot contribui MOOC-urile la educația adulților în țara noastră?
• Ce putem învăța din experiența altora?
• Cum poate fi evaluată calitatea și impactul acestor cursuri?
• Ce efort și competențe sunt necesare pentru dezvoltarea, derularea și facilitarea lor?
• Cine pot fi furnizorii și beneficiarii?
• Ce schimbări sunt necesare la nivelul politicilor educaționale?
Towards Research 2.0: The Influence of Digital and Online Tools in Academic R...Gabriela Grosseck
The new Internet technologies have infiltrated the academic environment, both at individual and at institutional level. Therefore, more and more teachers have started educational blogs, librarians are active on Twitter, other educational actors curate web content, students post on Instagram or Flickr, and university departments have Facebook pages and/or YouTube accounts etc.
Today, the use of web technology has become “a legitimate activity in many areas of higher education” (Waycott, 2010) and a considerable shift to digital academic research has gradually occurred. Teachers are encouraging students to take up digital tools for research and writing, thus revealing new ways of using information and communication technologies for academic purposes and not just for socializing.
The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of integrating diverse digital and Web 2.0 tools and resources in research and in the construction of academic texts. We aim to stress the increasing influence of digital and online tools in academic research and writing.
Teachers, specialists, and students alike are affected by this process. In order to show how, we explore the following issues: What is Research 2.0? Which digital/online tools have we used to assist our students? What are the challenges for academic research using digital / web 2.0 tools? And how do digital tools shape academic research?
This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2040:
NOVAMOOC – Development and innovative implementation of MOOCs in Higher Education
communication presented at ITHET 2015, IEETeL2015, 11-13 June, 2015, Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal by Malinka Ivanova (http://www.slideshare.net/malinkaiv)
Nowadays, when more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, when information and (mobile) communication technologies are real catalysts for innovations in all domains, there are a lot of studies and debates related to how our cities should become "Smart Cities", "Smarter Cities" or "Future Cities", in order to improve life quality and to reduce costs, to become a “Smart Learning City”. The paper reviews the definitions of the term "Smart City" and to the strategies required for such a transformation. The new citizens will have vital roles in building smart cities; they should be hyperconnected, creative, entrepreneurs, also they should actively participate and collaborate in the cities’ activities and decisions. Thus, the main purpose of this paper is to focus on how e-Learning, Social Media, OERs and MOOCs can support the citizens’ learning communities, as well as the development of new skills and competencies, proposing a framework for scenarios of Learning Communities in Smart Cities, starting from four Case Studies.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
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1. Key Features of Open
Education in Romania
“ICT in Education in Central and Eastern European Countries“ WEBINAR
3rd “Belt and Road Open Education Learning Week” hosted by BRICOER
Beijing Normal University, Smart Learning Institute, 26-27 November 2018
2. Gabriela GROSSECK
assoc. prof. dr.
West University of Timisoara
Department of Psychology
4 Bd Vasile Parvan
300223 Timisoara, Romania
Email:
gabriela.grosseck@e-uvt.ro
Twitter, Instagram, Slideshare,
LinkedIn etc.: @ggrosseck
Carmen HOLOTESCU
prof. dr.
University “Ioan Slavici” Timisoara
Department of Computer Sciences
144 Paunescu Podeanu Str.
300569 Timisoara, Romania
Email:
carmen.holotescu@islavici.ro
Twitter, Instagram, Slideshare,
LinkedIn etc.: @cami13
La Blouse Roumaine by Henri Matisse
3. 1. Country overview
2. Key features of Digital Romania
3. Open Education // OERs and MOOCs
4. Romanian Initiatives in Open Education
5. Drivers and Barriers
Contents
4. Country overview
Area:
238,391 km2
Capital:
Bucharest
Currency: RON
EUR/ RON: 4.6
Population:
apox: 19 mill
2004 - NATO membership
2007 - EU membership
2019 - EU Presidency
Head of state:
President (since Dec 2014)
Klaus Werner Iohannis
The main ethnic groups
are Romanian (84%)
The language is Romanian
For more details see EU, Country Report Romania 2018
13. Open Education Definition
Core and Transversal Dimensions
Open education is a mode of realising
education, enabled by digital technologies
aiming to widen access and participation to
everyone.
It offers multiple ways of teaching and learning,
building and sharing knowledge, as well as a
variety of access routes to formal and non-
formal education, bridging them.
Open education means access to content,
courses, support, assessment and certification
in ways that are flexible, and accommodate
diverse needs. Barriers, as regards for example
entry or cost, are reduced or eliminated.
Source: OpenEdu JRC IPTS Report “Opening up
Education: a support framework for HE
institutions”, 2016
ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/open-education
14. „ICT tools, Open Educational
Resources (OERs), and open
educational practices (OEPs) allow
for an increase in the effectiveness
of education, allowing for more
personalised learning, a better
learning experience.
Ultimately, opening up education
may lead to a situation where all
individuals may learn anytime,
anywhere, with the support of
anyone, using any device.”
Open Education Europa
Opening UP education through new technologies Initiative openeducationeuropa.eu
ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/education-technology_en.htm (Sept 2013)
15. OER Definition
[…] „the open provision of
educational resources, enabled
by information and
communication technologies,
for consultation, use and
adaptation by a community of
users for non-commercial
purposes.”
UNESCO (2002, 2018)
unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources
https://www.oercongress.org/unesco-oer-recommendation
16. unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002136/213605e.pdf
What are OERs?
Open Educational Resources
„are any type of educational
materials that are in the public
domain or introduced with an
open license.
The nature of these open
materials means that anyone
can legally and freely copy, use,
adapt and re-share them. OERs
range from textbooks to
curricula, syllabi, lecture notes,
assignments, tests, projects,
audio, video
and animation.”
Big and Little OERs
(Weller, 2010)
Massive OERs = OpenMOOCs
(ECO Project, OE Consortium + EdX)
17. flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8620174342/
2008 - 1st cMOOC: George Siemens and Stephen Downes co-taught “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge” - 25 tuition-
paying students at the University of Manitoba, Canada plus ~2300 participants worldwide.
web.archive.org/web/20080629220943/http://ltc.umanitoba.ca:83/connectivism/
18. class-central.com
mooc-list.com
MOOC platforms and directories
Adapted from slideshare.net/ggrosseck/miniatelier-de-initiere-in-mooc
edx.org/verified-certificate
edx.org/xseries
edx.org/micromasters
udacity.com/nanodegree
coursera.org/specializations
futurelearn.com/programs
In May 2015 - the largest MOOC ever:
440,000 participants in English Language
Learning MOOC
http://tinyurl.com/largestMOOC
19. openuped.eu
home.eadtu.eu
Higher Education Online: MOOCs the European way
Fostering international Higher Education
collaboration though ICT and open education
menon.org/projects/emundus
The European Multiple MOOC Aggregator
platform.europeanmoocs.eu
home.eadtu.eu
The European Association of Distance
Teaching Universities
ecolearning.eu
bizmooc.eu
movemeproject.eu
European Projects related to MOOCs
“MOOCs are online courses designed for large
numbers of participants (>148, Dunbar number),
that can be accessed by anyone anywhere as long
as they have an internet connection, are open to
everyone without entry qualifications, and offer a
full/complete course experience online for free”.
eadtu.eu/documents/Publications/OEenM/Institutional
_MOOC_strategies_in_Europe.pdf
European MOOC Consortium (EMC) - October
2017 (FutureLearn, FUN, EduOpen, OpenupEd
and miríadaX)
langmooc.com
moocknowledge.eu
20. OE Initiatives in Romania
educatiedeschisa.ro
poerup.referata.com/wiki/Romania
21. CCR was launched in
September 2, 2008, with the
help of ApTI
(The Association for
Technology and Internet)
http://ro.creativecommons.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ro/
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Romania
22. National OE initiatives
1. Knowledge based Economy Project (2005-2013)
• OER educational policies (recommendations in 2007)
• OE Resources and Practices: in the schools participating in the project
2. OER in the Government Programme
• National Strategy on Digital Agenda for Romania 2020 (Feb 2015): Strategic Lines of
Development for ICT in Education: using OER and Web 2.0 in formal and LLL education -
imdd.ro/sites/default/files/library (ro);
• Implement an e-learning platform and online repositories for OERs - edu.ro/rețea-de-
resurse-educaționale-deschise-la-nivelul-inspectoratelor-școlare-județene
• Digital textbooks - manuale.edu.ro; but do not use open licences / format
3. Romanian Coalition for OER
Launced in October 2013, gathering persons and organizations that support and promote
the concepts of open access and OER - educatiedeschisa.ro; guides/workshops; organized
National Conferences for Open Education in 2014-2018; four proposals for open
education for the government inovarepublica.ro/educatie-deschisa-romania/; OER
repository was planned (spring 2016), proposal renewed for OUG (Nov 2016)
4. The Educated Romania (2016-2018)
Project of the Romanian Presidency; a broad public debate on education and research for
a set clear policies presidency.ro/ro/romania-educata
23. Regional and institutional OER initiatives
Related to FLOSS (Free / Libre / Open
Source Software):
• Groups
• Conferences/Events
• Courses / Trainings / Research
• Linux distributions and Open
Source projects development
Related to OER, OEP and Open
Content/Access:
• Courses / Trainings / Programs
• Open Content / Open Access /
Communities for OER and OEP
• Studies
24. Open Educational Resources / Practices (1)
- "OER Awareness Activities for Librarians and
Academics in Romania", funded by CC Affiliate
Project, implemented in 2013-2014 by ApTI
Association for Technology and Internet, Soros
Foundation Romania and National Association of
Libraries and Librarians in Romania:
workshops/events related to OER/MOOC, two guides
- Projects and sites that offer information/workshops
about copyright issues, open licenses and OER: Open
Educational Resources Policy in Europe
http://oerpolicy.eu/?s=romania, http://kosson.ro,
http://acces-deschis, http://oerup.eu, http://copy-
me.org, http://www.ordu.ro,
http://dreptuldeautor.noisieu.ro/creative-commons ,
http://culturaineducatie.ro
- Different products developed under CC licenses
http://ro.creativecommons.org
- Digital resources on the KEP portal created by
teachers and pupils in the pre-university system,
by using different Web2.0 technologies, guide
“OER for different disciplines”
http://tinyurl.com/KEPOERguide
- KEP launched two guides in 2012, having as
central topics the OER and collaborative
technologies (Web2.0) in education: "Integration
of new technologies in education" and "Using
ICT for educational activities"
- Open journals related to open education are
http://iteach.ro/experientedidactice,
http://www.elearning.ro
- Open materials and discussions around them:
http://forum.portal.edu.ro, http://didactic.ro,
http://e-scoala.ro, http://www.dascali.ro,
http://educatie.inmures.ro
25. - Teachers training in KEP, Didatec
project
(http://ctmtc.utcluj.ro/sites/didatec_
) received certificates, acknowledging
also their skills in using/creating OER
- Training/courses related to open
educational pedagogies are offered by
Moodle Romania, Didatec, iTeach,
Sloop2desc, ActiveWatch Media
Monitoring, UPT Technology
Enhanced Learning hosted by
Cirip.eu, Compendiu.ro - links at
http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Rom
ania#Regional_OER_initiatives
- Projects under CC licenses for Informal Learning /
Serendipity: Romanian Encyclopedia
http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro , Veioza Arte
http://veiozaarte.ro - a video sharing platform acting as
an open source production house for the Romanian
cultural scene, Local Records http://www.localrec.ro
are collections of audio products, Brașov Creative
Commons Film Festival http://bvccfilmfest.tumblr.com
- City Projects http://cityprojects.ro - community
proposing/working on software projects for local
communities/ smart cities, based on open data
- Most of the national projects related to OER are
designed / implemented for the pre-university level,
while in academia they are implemented by a single
university or a group of universities
Open Educational Resources / Practices (2)
26. MOOC platforms
- UniCampus unicampus.ro: started in April 2014
under the initiative of Politehnica University of
Timisoara and Association of Technical
Universities from Romania (rouni.ro ); offers
cMOOCs on a platform based on Moodle;
- NOVAMOOC novamooc.uvt.ro: development
and innovative implementation of MOOCs in
Higher Education, West University Timisoara
(2015-17);
- MOOC.ro mooc.ro: developed by Moodle.ro,
currently offers 2 MOOCs about Moodle and
Articulate;
- Drivers:
- researchers and teaching staff, seldom the policy makers and managers of the institutions;
- companies and associations;
- eStudent estudent.ro: MOOCs on
psychology, communication,
business, geography and Romanian
language (APIO, CTRL-D, experts);
- Startarium startarium.ro: platform
nurturing an entrepreneurship
ecosystem; a group of organizations
and experts offer MOOCs, mentoring
and crowdfunding for around 8,000
potential entrepreneurs who design
and develop their start-up plans
using the platform features;
- MOOCs for students and teachers, for
companies/start-ups
27. Romanian MOOC projects
- UniBuc Virtual unibuc-virtual.net: Credis,
Department of Distance Learning of
University of Bucharest, offered 3 MOOCs
for Teachers Training on a platform based
on Google Apps;
- University "Vasile Goldis" Arad plans to
offer MOOCs in partnership with
Fédération Européenne des Écoles;
- University „Babes Bolyai” Cluj Napoca –
eLIADA eliada.ubbcluj.ro/proiect -
materials for 4 MOOCs;
- MOOCs on Udemy – NGO Management, Association
Young Initiative udemy.com/management-ong;
- Critical Thinking MOOC was developed and run in
2014 by Maastricht School of Management
Romania on Iversity
(msmromania.org/content/msmro-produces-first-
mooc-eastern-europe);
- MOOC in medical education – Romanian Angel
Appeal Foundation – raa.ro;
- MOOCBuddy – the 1st Messenger chatbot for
MOOCs - facebook.com/MyMOOCBuddy;
28. - For the next future:
- Virtual mobilities through MOOCs
(OpenVM – CeL);
- Pilot for credit transfer system
allowing students’ participation in
MOOCs to count towards their
degrees; at this moment for some
courses the participation in MOOCs
can contribute to the activity/project
mark;
- Developing MOOCs together with
companies assuring a better
integration in the labour market.
- MOOCs integration in blended academic courses
at Politehnica University of Timisoara (Web
Programming, Instructional Technologies,
Embedded Systems courses), University “Ioan
Slavici” of Timisoara (Multimedia, OOP and
Parallel Algorithms courses);
- MOOC accreditation at UPT - Digital Marketing -
http://atelieruldigital.jaromania.org/
- Teacher continuing professional development
using MOOCS at University “Ioan Slavici” of
Timisoara - participation in MOOCs related to
OE, but also to topics of taught courses and
research directions; Drivers:
- researchers and teaching staff;
- policy makers and managers of the institutions;
MOOC integration in formal education
29. Variants of blending MOOCs in university courses
from Carmen Holotescu, Gabriela Grosseck, Vladimir-Ioan Cretu, Antoanela Naaji. (2014). Integrating MOOCs in Blended Courses. 10th International Scientific
Conference eLearning and Software for Education, Bucharest, Romania –researchgate.net/publication/260987116_Integrating_MOOCs_in_Blended_Courses
30. For students:
- autonomy in assessing their own
learning needs for choosing the
MOOCs in which to participate
- exposing to:
- high quality materials created with
• top educational technologies
• collaboration in global learning
communities
- a broader range of experiences
For teachers:
- new skills and tasks:
- complex course design/management
- OERs and MOOCs curation
- evaluation of distributed/collaborative
activities of students,
- facilitation of the local learning community
and nurture of its integration in the global
communities of MOOCs
- improving knowledge in their own area of
expertise
- improving their competencies/skills for
adopting new models of OEP
Benefits/Challenges of MOOCs integration in blended courses/flipped classrooms
make xMOOCs more close to cMOOCs
31. MOOC events and studies
Workshops (OEW) and national
/ international conferences
(Open Education / eLSE,
SMART) related to open
education and MOOCs
organized by members of the
Romanian Coalition for OER
• Studies, PhD thesis
• search MOOC Romania on GS;
Check also:
• Opening Up Education in Romania
• OER in Romania
32. Blockchain projects
• Course about Blockchain Development (Ethereum, Hyperledger, Hashgraph) at
University “Ioan Slavici, since 2017-2018 academic year– the 1st university course
• OpenEduChain - http://openeduchain.io - a repository for open educational assets
(OERs, MOOCs, OPs), which also issues certificates & open badges for
universities/educational and training institutions
• eLSE Open Education Workshop – Blockchain Topic
33. Strengths in Romanian OE initiatives
Romania is active in the OE movement:
• trainings/courses related to OER and OEP organized for both
pre-university and university sectors
• formal documents at governamental level related to OER and
Web2.0
• national events related to open resources produced by pre-
university teachers; national guides were published too
• directories with open resources (more numerous for pre-
university level)
• projects in development for MOOCs at university level and for
continuing education
• strong communities/events for open source, open access, open
data, open licences.
34. Barriers in the OE adoption / OERs&MOOCs
development
• rigid policies in formal education related to curricular systems and assessment
practices;
• the lack of possibility to officially accredit online courses, in spite of an
impressive number of projects related to online courses over the last 18 years,
and of the policy proposals coming from different organizations. Such courses
can only be used in a blended approach in formal education;
• the lack of MOOC-related strategies at national level in formal and continuing
education;
• teachers lack of time and interest to explore, understand, evaluate and use new
technologies, OERs and MOOCs in the teaching-learning process;
• a reduced number of training programs for adopting open educational practices;
• lack of incentives, official recognition and promotion for teachers implementing
open educational practices.
Recommendations for policy makers educational institutions, teachers
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