This presentation shows the results of an in depth mapping done in June 2014 by Matteo Uggeri for the EU funded project POERUP. The analysis investigates the existance of government policies at a national or regional level for the use of Open Educational Resources (OER). Moreover, also the singular initiatives have been listed and shortly described. The research investigated both the school and the university sector, including MOOCs. The slides include screen-captures of most of the cases listed.

1. http://tinyurl.com/OER-cloud
ITALY

2. OER in Italy: policies and initiatives
in school and university
Matteo Uggeri
December 11th 2014
Educafé – METID Match

4. POERUP – for Italy
 MAPPING OF:
 Policies
 School
 Universities
 Initiatives
 School
 Universities

6. Some field to be filled…
 Initiative hashtag
 Type
 Country/ continentRegion
 Initiative
 HQ city
 Initiative name
 Initiative URL
 Initiative summary
 Initiative owner
 Initiative HQ address
 Geolocation
 Initiative contact person
 Initiative contact email
 Political scale
 Funders
 Start year
 End year
 Educational Level (text)
 Educ’l Level (ISCED)
 Interface language(s)
 Resource language(s)
 Subject(s)
 Licence(s)
 Media types
 Tags

7. THIS IS THE FINAL RESULT OF THE PEORUP PROJECT:
HTTP://WWW.POERUP.ORG.UK/MAPTYPES/

9. My own methodology
1. Revise the policies and initiatives listed in
2012;
2. Use my own knowledge to integrate them;
3. Asking experts I know;
4. Search in the web through engines or learning
networks.

10. My own first impression
1. Data of 2012 was widely obsolete;
2. I mostly knew already 90% of what the
bankrupted guys listed;
3. All the people I’ve contacted wanted to know
more about the research;
4. Searching in the internet brought me to a
maze of self-styled OER’s and MOOCs.

11. OER?
 What is a real OER?
 What does defines a resource as a OER?
 What is open or free or not?
 What is really a re-usable resource?

12. SCHOOL
POLICIES
Source: Guerra di amore: http://blog.libero.it/Guerracuore/11081889.html

13. 2009!
OEP
Practices not resources | Not tracked

14. GOLD
Le buone pratiche della scuola italiana
 GOLD is the database of the most innovative
teaching practices of Italian schools of every
type and level of education.
 GOLD aims at fostering teaching knowledge
sharing and school innovation experienced by
teachers, particularly those ideas that can travel
well from one context to another.
 http://gold.indire.it/gold2/
2009!
OEP
Practices not resources | Not tracked

15. _ER
Risorse per Docenti dai progetti nazionali

16. PuntoEdu
 Puntoedu is the national online environment
for teacher training managed by the
National Agency for the Development of School Autonomy . The repository contains more than 3,000 LOs
which have been developed for teachers’ online
training by teachers themselves. http
://puntoedu.indire.it/
_ER
Risorse per Docenti dai progetti nazionali

17. Call the expert (guess who?)

18. Io scelgo io studio
Il portale all’orientamento per il secondo grado e al post diploma
 Italian portal to support the transition between
different school levels.
 This National initiative is born to develop a new
model of educational guidance that can
guarantee support for all the moments of
transition and choice of the person, throughout
the course of life
 http://www.istruzione.it/orientamento/
Call the expert (guess who?)

19. Sharing emotions :-) :-( :-/ >:’-|

20. Voci Vivaci
Storie di scuole che crescono
 The initiative aims to provide an opportunity to
teachers, students and other school workers to
freely tell their own experiences and the paths
taken.
 Voices and testimonies of the children and the
school staff, the initiatives supported and
carried out under the two 2007-2013 National
Operational Programmes of the education
sector (PON).
 http://vocivivaci.indire.it/
Sharing emotions :-) :-( :-/ >:’-|

21. OER!

22. Risorse per docenti dai progetti
nazionali
 A collection of proposals for the lifelong
learning and training of teachers.
 Action for professional development of
teachers and promoted by the National
Operational Programme 2007/2013, out of the
European Social Fund PON-ESF "Competence
Development".
 http://risorsedocentipon.indire.it/home_piattaforma
/ OER!

23. ATTIVITÀ “CHE POSSONO ESSERE CONSULTATE,
SPERIMENTATE, RIPROPOSTE IN UN’AMPIA VARIETÀ DI
SITUAZIONI DIDATTICHE E RIADATTATE IN MANIERA
PERSONALE IN BASE AI DIVERSI CONTESTI D’USO”.
http://
risorsedocentipon.indire.it/offerta_formativa/c/index.php?action=copertina&OER!

24. ATTIVITÀ “CHE POSSONO ESSERE CONSULTATE,
SPERIMENTATE, RIPROPOSTE IN UN’AMPIA VARIETÀ DI
SITUAZIONI DIDATTICHE E RIADATTATE IN MANIERA
PERSONALE IN BASE AI DIVERSI CONTESTI D’USO”.
http://
risorsedocentipon.indire.it/offerta_formativa/c/index.php?action=copertina&OER!

25. Now a Blog  Then 20 prototypes (?)

26. Editoria Digitale Scolastica
Contenuti didattici di nuova generazione tra ambiente classe ed ambienti online
 “The initiative, which also aims to act as a pulse
to the publishing world for the realization of
innovative editorial products, intends to
acquire, together with educational institutions
involved, 20 prototypes of "digital editions
school“.
 http
://www.scuola-digitale.it/editoria-digitale/il-progetto/Now a Blog  Then 20 prototypes (?)

27. «L’IDEA È DI ACQUISIRE 20 PROTOTIPI DI EDIZIONI DIGITALI
SCOLASTICHE PRODOTTE DA EDITORI E VALIDATE DA 20
SCUOLE OGNUNA DELLE QUALI AVEVA PRIMA EMESSO UN
BANDO PER SELEZIONARE L’EDITORE CON CUI STIPULARE
UN CAPITOLATO.»
?__?

28. Web 2.0 | Flipped classroom

29. Scuola Lombardia Digitale
 The aim of the Digital School Lombardy
initiative is to support the teachers on the ICT
teaching skills and then to develop an
exportable model of "doing school", adaptable
and whose effectiveness is documented by
adequate tools for monitoring and evaluation.
 http://www.istruzione.lombardia.it/sl-digitale/
Web 2.0 | Flipped classroom

30. Web 2.0 | Flipped classroom

31. Web 2.0 | Flipped classroom

32. Online forum for school geeks

33. Porte aperte sul web /
Un CMS per la scuola
 The Community of Practice of "Porte aperte sul
web" (Open Doors on the web), organized by
the USR (Regional School Office for Lombardy),
is made by the Lombard school teachers.
 One of the first aims of the initiative is to allow
teacher and or school personnel to create their
own websites.
 http://www.porteapertesulweb.it
Online forum for school geeks

34. SCHOOL
Source: Guerra di amore: http://blog.libero.it/Guerracuore/11081889.html
INITIATIVES

35. €ER
TIM

36. Oilproject
 The Oilproject is defined as a “free elearning”
community. It was created in 2004 by a group
of young people;
 Since 2012 is in partnership with TIM (Telecom
italia Mobile), one of the leading companies for
telecommunication in Italy, that uses the Oil
Project to penetrate the school market.
 http://www.oilproject.org/ €ER
TIM

37. RENT?
O€R
Students as clients or students as sellers?

38. Skuola.net
 As far as we know, this website was born as an
online community for school students in order
to share experiences and notes on any subject
or lecture.
 Now it has become a very interesting business
site where students of every educational level
can sell (or buy) their notes.
 http://www.skuola.net/ O€R
Students as clients or students as sellers?

39. Skuola.net
 http://
www.skuola.net/filosofia-antica/alcmeone-crotone.O€R
Students as clients or students as sellers?

40. Initiative or policy?

41. Risorse per Studenti
 Is a toolbox for studying from home and school.
 In the portal, students will find tools and
content for:
 the "recupero dei debiti formativi" ("learning
debits recovery”) ,
 the in-depth analysis of the topics covered in class,
 or suggestions to simply study in a different way.
 http://risorsestudentipon.indire.it/
Initiative or policy?

42. Initiative or policy?

43. C(losed)ER?

44. Trio
Il sistema di web learning della Regione Toscana
 TRIO (technology, research, innovation and
orientation) was born in 1998, as a project of
tele-training financed by Tuscany Region
through the Social European Fund (FSE).
 The website states: “On TRIO there are at
disposal, completely free, about 1.700 courses
and a set of training services to increase your
knowledge and to obtain professional
certificates.”
C(losed)ER?
 http://www.progettotrio.it/trio/

45. A(utarchic)ER

46. Portale ITSOS – Risorse Digitali
(formerly ‘teca’)
 A portal for sharing educational resources
(video, audio, images) without the use of third-party
online services such as YouTube, iTunes
or any Google Drive application, in order to
cope with the reluctance of many teachers in
putting their didactic material online, which is
often due to the risks of control exert by those
huge companies.
 http://195.120.198.109/
A(utarchic)ER

47. Competition-based
2.500 €

48. Scuola+
Innovalascuola.it
 School+ wants to give voice to the primary and
secondary schools that, by using effectively the
financial resources made available by the Rome
Foundation for the technological upgrading,
have been able to create integrated and
innovative learning environments.
 http://www.innovalascuola.it/
Competition-based
2.500 €
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgtJ4IgXsk&feature=youtu.be

49. Competition-based
2.500 €

50. Against the publishing industry!

51. Book in Progress
 The project results and methodologies are quite
controversial, as an article (that can be read
here
http://stop.zona-m.net/it/2012/02/cosa-ci-insegnano-) demonstrate. In fact, the level of ‘openness’
and the use of Creative Commons licencing is
not fully clear.
 Quality is an issue.
Against the publishing industry!

52. One last minute stuff
 http://www.icleen.muse.it/
 The I-Cleen project on open resources on climate
and energy is explicitly based on OER.
 The team is centred on Trento.

53. UNIVERSITY
POLICIES

54. Competition
160.000 €

55. Talent Italy
Sviluppo di MOOC per scuole e università italiane
 Sort of MOOC contest by MIUR w/ Cineca to
“promuovere il nuovo modello didattico offerto
dai MOOC, premiando le idee più originali e
innovative”.
 Call on Feb 2014
 10’ video to show the idea of a MOOC to be
afterward published and shared.
 https://www.talentitaly.it/
Competition
160.000 €

56. UNIVERSITY
(SELF STYLED) INITIATIVES

57. A real business model
cMOOC

58. IUL
Italian University Line
 It’s a course on “Internet technology for school”
and the founder call it cMOOC (connectivist
Massive Open Online Course).
 “the final assessment for certification cost of 150 EUR.
The break even point has been so essentially reached,
with a number of paying about 75 corresponding with
481 members at the beginning.”
 http://www.iuline.it/ambiente/
 http://prezi.com/lk5m4bsw5ggj/il-cmooc-della-iul/ [April 2014]
A real business model
cMOOC

59. Self styled (and not)
popular MOOCs
 Federica (http://www.federica.unina.it/)
 Since 2014 the University of Naples is also the
coordinator of the EMMA project.
 “The European Multiple MOOC Aggregator (called EMMA for short) is a
30 month pilot action supported by the European Union. It aims to
showcase excellence in innovative teaching methodologies and
learning approaches through the large-scale piloting of MOOCs on
different subjects.”

60. Self styled (and not)
popular MOOCs
 Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno (
http://www.uninettunouniversity.net/)
Mc(osed)OC
 It's huge, so we can say 'massive' in this case.
Nevertheless, it's not free.
 The fee costs are described in this page:
http://
www.uninettunouniversity.net/it/regolepagtasse.aspx [June
2014]
 But… actually, Uninettuno is part of the Open Up Ed
initiative! (http://www.openuped.eu/courses/details/1/20)
 …inlcuded in the wikipedia Italia among Italian MOOCs,
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOC [sept. 2014]

61. Self styled (and not)
popular MOOCs
 La Sapienza di Roma on Coursera (https
://www.coursera.org/course/rqm)
 MOOC dell’Università degli Studi Guglielmo
Marconi
http://mooc.unimarconi.it/

63. Special tastes
and bizarre MOOCs
 MOOC – Insegnare con Moodle (
https://www.mediatouch.it/it/eventi/il-primo-mooc-/)
 MOOC trasparenza e anticorruzione
(http://www.csimoodle20.it/mooc/) by CSI Piemonte

64. Special tastes
and bizarre OER
“Markov switching
autoregressive models:
hidden chain
reconstruction, missing
observations restoration,
forecasting”
 Università degli Studi di Bergamo: Aisberg
 http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?
cerca=ateneo_policies_accesso
 «consultare i dati bibliografici dei documenti ed esportare
liste di dati bibliografici;
 consultare i testi pieni dei documenti e creare copie
elettroniche (download) o a stampa;
 fornire legami ipertestuali a documenti e liste di documenti
per sole finalità di studio, ricerca o didattica e purché venga
correttamente citata la fonte.»

65. Italian international
remixed OERs
 Khan Academy
(https://it.khanacademy.org/)
 Open Education Europa
(http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/sear
ch/site?f[0]=ss_language%3Ait)
 This is the list of the 2563 items (30th of June 2014)
that can be found in Italian on the Open Education
Europa portal.

66. Poli MOOCs
 POK - Polimi Open Knowledge
(https://www.pok.polimi.it/)
 “MOOCS to bridge the gaps”
 ECO – Elearning Communication Opendata
http://ecolearning.eu/portfolio/politecnico-di-milano/ +
http://ecolearning.eu/
 Docenti Online – DOL
(http://www.dol.polimi.it/mooc/)
 Badges! + EXPO

67. The winner is…
 Design 101
 Iversity “MOOC Production Fellowship”
(https://iversity.org/pages/contest-di-iversity)
 https://iversity.org/courses/design-101

69. Acknowledgements
 Mara Masseroni (ITSOS Cernusco SN)
 Pierfranco Ravotto (AICA)
 Stefano Mirti (Abadir)
 Anne-Sophie Gauvin (Abadir)
 Stefania Farsagli (Fondazione Rosselli)
 Maria Cinque (RUI / EUCA)
 Eleonora Pantò (CSP / EMMA Project)
 Stefano Menon (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano)
 Ada Giannatelli (Politecnico di Milano)

70. My articles
 BRICKS
 OER: policies e iniziative nella scuola. Il racconto di una
(tentata) mappatura della situazione italiana ad oggi
 20 settembre 2014
 http://bricks.maieutiche.economia.unitn.it/?p=4883
 UNIVERSITAS
 OER: policies e iniziative. Una mappatura della situazione
italiana ad oggi
 Gennaio 2015
 http://www.rivistauniversitas.it/

71. Thanks
Matteo Uggeri
matteo.uggeri@polimi.it
Fondazione Politecnico di Milano
Digital Learning & Collaboration Area
http://www.facebook.com/fpmdigitallearning/