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1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bsteele/380197909/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Open educational practices: a bottom-up
approach in Latin America and Europe to develop
a common Higher Education Area
OportUnidad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4909004716/ Info at: www.oportUnidadproject.eu

2. OportUnidad
PROJECT OportUnidad
PROGRAMME ALFA III - Lot 1: Joint Projects
DURATION 30 months (starting date: 1 Jan 2012)
PARTNERS 12 Partners
AIM Foster openness in Higher Education

3. Almost 600 M. in
habitants
Over 2,500 univ
ersities
7,000 HE institu
tions (1)
15 million stude
nts (2)
70 Latin Americ
countries
an Ues 10
(OCW Universia
) over 200
course
Temoa - 30,000
ER
SciELO- REDA
LYC (20 art. OER)
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).

4. LA Partners
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil) (candidate)
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

5. 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

6. OportUnidad
Regional Agenda
General objective:
Strengthen the EU-LA
Common Higher
Education Area, through
a bottom-up approach, by
the increasing the use of
open educational
practices and resources
(OEP & OER)
Cooperation
to contribute in the
economical and
social development
of HE 60 organisations in LA.

7. - Raise awareness
& HEI
participation in OEP
.
- Define the OER A
genda for the
re-use of OER
- Define a mid-term
strategic
roadmap (local-inst
itutional
level)
- Train teachers ho
w to use and
reuse OER (e-skills
)
- Pilot start-up open
educational
practices (transactio
nal linkage).
Specific Objectives
of OportUnidad

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Compendium of EU-LA OER practices
• LA OEP awareness state-of-the-art
• Local OEP awareness baseline
• Interviews + case studies (EU+LA)
Definition of OER Agenda
Institutional roadmap
Pilot OER training course (educators)
Start-up of OEP
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/

9. Nomination form
Self- Nomination form
OEP State of the Art in LA
OER
Compendium
Fellows baseline survey (to be designed)

10. @
Oportunidad
Partners
Fellows recruitment:
10
Nomination process (form 1)
Instrument Name Source
Online Form 1 Nomination form Each partners nominate around 10
potential fellows

11. Fellows recruitment:
Self-nomination process (form 2)
Open Everybody
60 Latin American Partners &
Fellows Universities
@
Instrument Name Source Languages
Online Form 2 Self-Nomination Open and publicly available English, Portuguese
form (requisite to participate in Spanish
OportUnidad)

12. LA State-of-the-art & Baseline
Instruments Sources Goal
Online Form 3: Completed by each partner Mapping OEP awareness and
LA State-of-the-art + some fellows impact in LA
LA-EU Case studies Conducted by OportUnidad Learning from best practices
team
Interviews with experts Conducted by OportUnidad Learning from best practices
team
Fellows Baseline Survey To be filled out by Measuring awareness within
educators of fellow each fellow
organisations

13. Guatemala (2)
Honduras (2)
Mexico (8)
Nicaragua (2)
Costa Rica (3)
Panama (1)
Colombia (7)
Ecuador (8)
Peru (1)
Bolivia
Brazil (3)
Paraguay (1)
Chile (3)
Uruguay (1)
Argentina (7)
Potential fellows *(Partners countries)

14. Regional Hubs (regional agenda + local road map)
Partner
Partner
Partner
Fellow
nº 1
Partner
Partner
Partner
Partner

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

16. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Stages of the on-line training course (approx. 80 hrs)
Understanding
Repurposing
Implementing
Identifying
Engaging
Creating
Defining
Aligning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/5tein/2176406692/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Start-up of OER
Participants will start-up OEP in their
universities as part of the implementation
of the institutional roadmap
Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica

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18. More information:
www.oportunidadproject.eu
Daniel Villar Onrubia, phd student
@villaronrubia
Cristobal Cobo, research fellow
@cristobalcobo
Oxford Internet Institute,
University of Oxford
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