The presentation contains some reflections and research results on the links between public policy, institutional strategies and individual behaviours in the field of Open Education.

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Open Education: a new
operational framework for
people and for institutions.
Fabio Nascimbeni
Universidad Internacional de la Rioja
CommonSpaces Final Event

2. Layers of Open Education
Macro level: national/local policies and initiatives
Meso level: institutional initiaties and projects
Micro level: the individual professor/researcher/practitioner

3. National/regional policies in the EU
In most MS the vision of open education is rather broad, going beyond OER and open
content, even if in a number of MS when this vision is applied into a policy, the
approach towards open education is still limited to OER.
JRC report (2016) 'Opening up education: a support framework for higher education institutions'

4. Four typologies of OE policies in Europe
1. Policies focusing specifically on opening up education through the
promotion of OER and OEP
2. Policies relating to general ICT for learning with some open
education component
3. Comprehensive strategic educational policies with some open
education component
4. Polices built up as National Open Government Plans with some
open education component

5. Open Education policy

6. Institutional level
First wave of policies is over (UNISA, US universities, etc)
Actual wave of more realistic policies:
- Edinburgh University (OER Liaison)
- Universidad de Barcelona (Open Access)
- UNIR (private university)
Lessons learnt:
- Engage stakeholders
- Plan long term
- Include budget talk

7. A new idea of university?

8. Sustainable transformation starts within the minds of the actors on the
ground
We need:
- Incentives
- Champions
- Awareness, Awareness, Awareness
Individual level

9. A picture of openness capacity in Politecnico di
Torino
Design Content Teaching Assessment
Individual designer
59
New to OER
60
Traditional teacher
94
Traditional evaluator
162
Collaborative designer
116
OER user
100
Engaging Teacher
80
Innovative evaluator
7
Open designer
7
OER specialist
22
Open teacher
8
Open evaluator
13
182 replies in total, data available through the OEF platform

10. Two main findings
Openness has many “entry points”
The relation between
Openness and Collaboration
is clear
JRC,2016

11. fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net
@fabionascimbeni