Presentation of Javiera Atenas Open Education Policy Lab, Open Education Working Group and Research at University of Barcelona 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/

2. Open Education for Civic
Engagement and Democracy
Dr Javiera Atenas
OEWG - UB

3. OE and Citizenship
• Open Education can widely contribute to develop
citizenship and participation skills in a democratic
manner by opening up resources to train people in
every educational context either formal or informal
• For example, Open Data when used as OER can
help educators to create participatory projects
where students can attempt to resolve real life
problems using active citizenship as an approach
to learning

4. Some resources: OER commons

5. Some interesting projects
• Monithon Italy (Open Data and Civic Monitoring)
https://www.monithon.it/about-english/
• A Scuola di Open Coesione
http://www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it/
• OER in civic education - Open Government
Commitment Chile
https://www.opengovpartnership.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/01/Chile_Action-Plan_2018-
2020.pdf

6. Some readings
Kanwar, A., Kodhandaraman, B., & Umar, A. (2010). Toward sustainable open
education resources: A perspective from the global south. The Amer. Jrnl. of
Distance Education, 24(2), 65-80.
http://oasis.col.org/bitstream/handle/11599/1144/2010_Kanwar_Towards_Sustain
able_OER_Transcript.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Atenas, J.& Havemann, L. (2015). Open data as open educational resources:
Towards transversal skills and global citizenship. Open praxis, 7(4), 377-389.
http://www.openpraxis.org/~openprax/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/233
Gascó-Hernández, M., Martin, E. G., Reggi, L., Pyo, S., & Luna-Reyes, L. F. (2018).
Promoting the use of open government data: Cases of training and
engagement. Government Information Quarterly, 35(2), 233-242.
http://luigireggi.eu/wp-
content/uploads/2019/02/Building_Citizen_Capabilities_RR_v03_ACCEPTED.pdf

7. Some readings
Peters, M. A., & Britez, R. G. (Eds.). (2008). Open education and education for
openness (pp. 3-15). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Peters/publication/255525908_O
pen_Education_and_Education_for_Openness/links/544be3fe0cf2bcc9b1d6c1e
3/Open-Education-and-Education-for-Openness.pdf
Atenas, J., & Havemann, L. (2015). Open data as open educational resources:
case studies of emerging practice. https://oro.open.ac.uk/56350/1/Book-Open-
Data-as-Open-Educational-Resources1%5B1%5D.pdf
Gondol, J., & Allen, N. (2015). Open government partnership as a platform for
advancing open education policy. Open Praxis, 7(3), 273-280.
https://openpraxis.org/~openprax/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/214