This document summarizes an OER higher education meeting focused on quality. It includes notes from presentations by Ebba Ossiannilsson of Lund University, Sweden on her dissertation research on benchmarking e-learning and comments from a 2012 EADTU conference. Key points covered include definitions of open educational resources and the Paris Declaration principles of OER including awareness, enabling environments, strategies, open licensing, and quality. Recommendations are made around exploiting MOOCs, innovative practices, digital skills, validating online learning, and accessing high quality open resources. Emergent themes discussed shifting to open practices using social media to foster communities.

1. OER Higher Ed meeting
-focus on quality
Ebba Ossiannnilsson, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
Oslo 8th November 2013

2. Ebba Ossiannilsson, PhD Lunds Universitet

3. Ossiannilsson (2012) Benchmarking (e)-learning in
higher education, Doctoral dissertation, Oulu
University, Finland

4. Commissionaire Vassilio presented her view for
today and for tomorrow at the EADTU conference in
Cyprus 2012
" We must engage in a fundamental transformation
of our education and training systems
And we need to fully exploit the potentioal that open
and flexible education offers" (EADTU 120929)

6. Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, or
research materials that are in the public domain or released
with an intellectual property license that allows for free use,
adaptation, and distribution (Plotkin 2010, UNESCO 2011a).
UNESCO defined OER as material used to support education
that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by
anyone (2011/07/14).
COL-UNESCO defines OER as: The phenomenon of OER is an
empowerment process, facilitated by technology in which
various types of stakeholders are able to interact, collaborate,
create, and use materials and pedagogic practices, that are
freely available, for enhancing access, reducing costs, and
improving the quality of education and learning at all levels
(Kanwar, Balasubramanian & Umar 2010).

9. OER Paris Deklarationen (1)
awareness and use
enabling environments
strategies and policies
open licensing
frameworks
sustainable development
of quality

10. OER Paris Deklarationen (2)
strategic alliances
variety of languages and
cultural contexts
research
finding, retrieving and
sharing
open licensing, public
funds

11. What do we mean by opening up
education? EC
Opening up education means
bringing the digital revolution into
education. Digital technologies allow
all individuals to learn, anywhere,
anytime, through any device, with
the support of anyone

12. EC Recommendations to educational
institutions Opening up Education
review their organisational strategies
exploit the potential of Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)
stimulate innovative learning practices such as blended
learning
equip teachers with high digital competences
equip learners with digital skills
think about how to validate and recognise learner’s
achievements in online education
make high quality Open Education Resources (OER)
visible and accessible

13. Attitudes
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Practice
Open Educational Culture
Open Educational Ideas
Peer review
From content to context

14. Our Students
Our
Support
Education
Friesen & Murray, 2011
Our
Content

16. Quality
Why
When
What
How
Who
Context
Language
Culture
UGC
Ossiannilsson 2013

18. Emergent themes
Shift from development to OER
practices
Broader notion of open practices –
open learning, teaching and research
Use of social and participatory media
to foster OER communities

19. OER och MOOC
BIS RESEARCH PAPER NUMBER 130
The Maturing of the MOOC

21. MOOC Quality Project
Massive target group
Mixing groups
Learning across contexts
Support self-organization
Declare whats in it
Peer to peer pedagogy
MOOCs support choice based learning
MOOC.EFQUEL.ORG

22. Caring is sharing, sharing is caring
Footprints
W:www.oulu.fi; www.lu.se/ced
E:Ebba.Ossiannilsson@oulu.fi
E:Ebba.Ossiannilsson@ced.lu.se
FB:Ebba Ossiannilsson
T:@EbbaOssian
Phone: +4670995448
S:http://www.slideshare.net/Ebba
Ossiann
Ossiannilsson 2013