The document outlines a framework for initiating open education projects, emphasizing the importance of improving accessibility and interoperability of Open Educational Resources (OER). It discusses the challenges related to the quality, discoverability, and reuse of educational data and proposes strategies using linked data technologies. Partnerships with various universities and organizations are mentioned to support the mission of promoting open education across Europe.

1. Getting started with Open Education:
Everything you need to know to begin open
education projects at your institution
Research in Open Education
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. Quality as the challenge
Four dimensions:
1. Teaching and Learning Processes
2.Information and Material Content
3. Presentation, Product and Format
4. System, Technical and Technology

3. Quality as the challenge

4. • To improve the accesibility, discoverability ,
share, use and reuse of OER and educational
data through emergent web technologies.
• Vision: OER shared and accesible to all and open
data linked
Mission of our research group:
GICAC UPM-UTPL

5. Openness
Linked Data

6. Heterogeneity leads to
problems of interoperability
and accessibility of open
content among institutions
and within them.
The lack of interoperability shows some
disadvantages in the discovery, reuse, re-mix and
adaptation of OER.
#sophia

7. Educational content
Open licenses
data in machine format
OPEN: "A piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it” http://www.opendefinition.org/okd
OER semantic
based on LinkedData approach
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@nopiedra2012

8. Figure: Overview of conceptual map about
general structure of OCW
LOCWD Vocabulary Modeling
Common data available from
OCW websites are: title,
knowledge area, open
educational materials, open
licenses, repositories, higher
education institutions, content
creators, fields of knowledge,
learning guides, licenses,
accessibility conformance, and
others

9. Guided navigation Previews
of Results
Refine search
Add keywords
With Serendipity
Explore OCW in an
integrated and
incremental
manner, from any of
the repositories of
institutions that
publish
OpenCourseWare.

10. Facets
Share this OCW
Inspect current OCW
Refine your search
Access the full description of the courses as published by the home institution, along with complimentary information such as
language, license, author, country, geographic location of the institution and other semantically related information available via the
Web.
Propose change

11. Link current OCW
to
Other LinkedData Source

12. Openness
Linked Data & Visualization

13. Serendipity POIs use icons to represent different categories of POI on a map
graphically. A point of interest, or POI, is a OER specific point location that someone
may find useful or interesting.

14. Serendipity POIs - Open data contains valuable information that will drive insights,
innovations, and discoveries, but it can be difficult to access and digest. Using data
visualization, we’re simplify the complexity and drive a deeper understanding of the
open educational context.

15. Impact on end-users
Social Network Analysis

16. Current state: folksonomies
North America
Most influential tags
Network information

17. potential state: tags and authors

18. Current researches
• A recommender system using social relationships and
SNA, to improve the finding and reuse of news OER
• A framework for discovery and recommendation of open
educational resources by self-learners
• Integrating OER in MOOC context using Linked Data
technologies
• A framework for promoting the quality associated to the
lifecyle of OER.

19. 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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