The OportUnidad project aimed to foster openness in higher education between Latin America and Europe. Over a 30 month period, the project brought together 12 partners from Latin America and Europe to develop a common higher education area through open educational practices and resources. Specific objectives included raising awareness of open educational practices, defining an open educational resources agenda, developing institutional roadmaps, and piloting training courses and start-up open educational practices. The project sought to contribute to the social and economic development of higher education through increased sharing of knowledge beyond institutional walls.

1. OportUnidad
Raising Awareness on Open Educational
Practices in the Latin American Higher
Education Context
Info at: www.oportUnidadproject.eu

2. OportUnidad
PROJECT OportUnidad
Open educational practices: a bottom-up approach in Latin
America and Europe to develop a common Higher Education Area
PROGRAMME ALFA III - Lot 1: Joint Projects
DURATION 30 months (1 Jan 2012 – 30 June 2014)
PARTNERS 12 Partners from LA and EU
AIM Foster openness in Higher Education

3. “White, D. Manton, M. JISC-funded OER Impact Study, University of Oxford, 2011”
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/oer/OERTheValueOfReuseInHigherEducation.pdf

4. Alm o s t 600 M . in
h ab itan ts
O ve r 2 ,5 00 u n iv
e rs itie s
7,000 H E in s titu
tio n s (1 )
1 5 m illio n s tu d e
n ts (2 )
70 L atin Am e ric
co u n trie s
an U e s 1 0
(O C W U n ive rs ia
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T e m o a - 30,000
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Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education - Web of Knowledge - Science - Thomson Reuters
1.Brunner, J.J. 2007. Universidad y sociedad en América Latina. Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación. Universidad Veracruzana.
2.Cruz González, D.E., D.J.L. García Cuevas, and D.E. González Suárez. (2010). “Las universidades de América Latina y El Caribe y el avance de las sociedades a
través de la innovación y la gestión tecnológica.” Universidad y Sociedad 2(1).

5. OportUnidad
Regional Agenda
General objective:
Strengthen the EU-LA
Common Higher
Education Area, through
a bottom-up approach, by
the increasing the use of
Cooperation
to contribute in the
economical and
open educational
social development
of HE practices and resources
(OEP & OER)

6. LA Partners
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil)
Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador
Fundación Uvirtual, Bolivia
Universidad Virtual del Tecnológico de Monterrey (UVTM),
Mexico
Universidad de la Empresa, Uruguay
Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (UIGV), Peru
Universidad EAFIT, Colombia

7. EU Partners
Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” (USGM), Italy
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
University of Oxford (UOXF), United Kingdom

8. - R ais e aw are n e s s
& HEI
p artic ip atio n in O E P
.
- D e fin e th e O E R A
g e n d a fo r th e
re -u s e o f O E R
- D e fin e a m id -te rm
s trate g ic
ro ad m ap (lo cal-in s
titu tio n al
le ve l)
- T rain te ach e rs h o
w to u s e an d
re u s e O E R (e -s kills
)
- P ilo t s tart-u p o p e n
e d u catio n al
p ractic e s (tran s actio
n al lin kag e ).
Specific Objectives
of OportUnidad

9. Common
HE Area
s LA-UE
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Lesson
Learned
Pilot start-up
OEP
Training
course
OER Awareness
raising
C.Cobo, Open Education Week webinar, 6 March 2012

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anaelisa2/2965802560/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Regional HUBs
Universidade Federal Fluminense & Oxford Internet Institute
– Partners > regional hubs
– Nominations
– Self-nominations *(survey)
• 60 universities:
a) Definition of OER Agenda
b) Institutional roadmap
c) Pilot OER training course
(educators)
d) Start-up of OEP
Compendium of
EU-LA OER practices
Good EU and LA models will be
exchanged and transferred.
Shows the benefits and pitfalls http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/
of the use of OER in HE

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncreedplayer/6194043404/sizes/z/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agirregabiria/3499503013/
Consultations
(managerial
level) of the LA
Agenda of OER re-use
Institutional roadmap(s) EU-LA’s strategy for
partner
universities
- Mid-term strategic plan: OEP in HE
Implementation of OEP Agenda Policies/actions to
at local/institutional level. boost the benefit
of the use and re-
- Shaped by local, cultural and use of OER in HE.
institutional framework.
- In consultation with the managerial
level of the (60) universities.

12. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Engaging: OER sharing to the
community.
Implementing: OER plan for action;
Creating: OER from scratch;
Repurposing: OER reuse, remix,
rework, localizing;
Identifying: OER search in
repositories and on the Web;
Aligning: OER to course requirements
and pedagogical pathways;
Defining: OER, OEP (open educational
practices), OCW (Open courseware),
Start-up of OER
Participants will start-up OEP in their
Understanding: OER movement, universities as part of the implementation
initiatives, purposes, history, and
challenges of the institutional roadmap
Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica

13. Long term results
• Foster the role of HE to provide knowledge not only to
their on-campus students but also beyond the walls of
institutions to disadvantages groups (i.e. low income
peoples, disables, indigenous), adult learners, and
students coming from not traditional routes.
• An increasing level of quality of contents is expected as a
long term result of the initiative.

14. More information:
www.oportunidadproject.eu
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