Robert Schuwer and Martijn Ouwehand Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology

1. Moonshot projects to support Dutch
national policy on OER
Robert Schuwer & Martijn Ouwehand

2. Agenda
• Motivation
• What are the projects about?
• Comparison with other initiatives

3. Motivation
• Strategic Agenda HO2525 “Value of
knowledge”
• Program plan Open and Connected
Higher Education. Exchange of digital
learning materials
• Need for showcases of good practices
Flagship projects

4. Context
• Incentive grants
• Initially:
– 4 years, 1M/year, 2015-2018
– After two rounds 23 projects received grants
– Goal: stimulate open and online movement by
experiments
• Future:
– Focus on sharing and reuse of OER
– Flagship projects preceed this change of focus

5. Flagship projects
• Goals:
– Creating and open sharing of learning
materials cross-institutional
– Learn about experiences
• Sustainability
• Requirements
• Two projects
– Research universities
– Universities of Applied Sciences

6. Research universities
• 4TU Federation (technical universities)
– TU Delft
– TU Eindhoven
– TU Twente
– Wageningen University
• Connect with existing project (less open)
• Shared basic courses
– Calculus

7. Typical work Packages
– (…)
– WP 2: Inventory Best Practices & Connections
to existing projects
– WP 3. Community: Active community of math
lecturers
– WP 4: Conditions for finding, sharing, (re)using
and revising content
– WP 5: Education: Open sharing and
development of learning solutions
– (…)

8. Nursing
• 17 UoAS offering a nursing education
• New curriculum BN2020, adopted by all
institutions
• Need for learning materials
• 5 institutions in the project

9. Goals
• Create and open share learning materials
• Start a community with teachers
connected to the learning materials

10. Infrastructure
Wikiwijs Create
Authoring tools
Tools teachers
already use
Publish / Share
Wikiwijs Share
(Repository/Referatory)
Search
Edurep
Edurep
widget
Wikiwijs
Search

11. Status/Planning
• Started up recently
• 1 year
• Results
– Relevant to the resp. Projects
– Good practices to
• Inspire other institutions
• Expand to more partners

12. Other national initiatives
Country Initiative What is it Target group
Netherlands Wikiwijs National OER repository and author
tool
Teachers PE, SE,
VE
Belgium
(Flanders)
Klascement National OER repository Teachers VE
Czech Republic RVP Metodicky Portal National OER repository Teachers
(professionalization)
Finland EDU National OER repository and tools
(also for professionalization)
Teachers basic
education and
upper secondary
education
Norway NDLE National OER repository PE and SE
France Directorate for Digital
Learning Technology
Promotion of OER as part of digital
education challenges
PE and SE
FUN National MOOC platform HE (?)
Poland Digital School Program Use of free digital textbooks under
Creative Commons License in
Polish schools
Slovenia Opening Up Slovenia National program to a.o. stimulate
using OER
All educational
sectors
Source: POERUP http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page

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• Martijn Ouwehand
– G.M.Ouwehand@tudelft.nl
• Robert Schuwer
– r.schuwer@fontys.nl
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