This document summarizes Romanian initiatives related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). It outlines that Romania is active in the OER movement through trainings, national events, guidelines, and communities supporting open licensing. Key initiatives include the Romanian Coalition for OER, the Knowledge Based Economy Project promoting OER policies and practices, and various university projects involving MOOCs. The document also provides recommendations to further support OER adoption, such as encouraging the sharing of educational resources under Creative Commons licenses and integrating OER and MOOCs into formal education courses.

1. Romanian Academia Initiatives related to
OER and MOOCs
Carmen Holotescu
Workshop "Opening Up Education", March 13, 2015, Timisoara Romania

2. OER/OEP Initiatives in Romania
poerup.referata.com/wiki/Romania

3. CCR was launched in
September 2, 2008, with
the help of ApTI
(The Association for
Technology and Internet)
http://ro.creativecommons.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ro/
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Romania

4. National OER initiatives
2. OER in the Government Programme
• Government Programme for 2013-2016 (Dec 2012): Ministry of Ministry
for Information Society and Ministry of Education to collaborate in
supporting the innovative integration of Web2.0 and OER in education;
• National Strategy on Digital Agenda for Romania 2020 (Feb 2015):
Strategic Lines of Development for ICT in Education: using OER and Web
2.0 in formal and LLL education
3. Romanian Coalition for OER
Launced in October 2013, gathering persons and organizations that
support and promote the concepts of open access and OER -
http://www.acces-deschis.ro; guides/workshops;organized the National
Conferences for Open Education in 2014/5 (datedeschise.fundatia.ro);
1. Knowledge based Economy Project (2005-2013)
• OER educational policies (recommendations in 2007)
• OE Resources and Practices: The activities in the KEP project have led the
schools towards a shift in focus from the resources themselves towards the
practices associated with the creation, use and management of OER: that is,
open educational practices (OEP).

5. Regional and institutional OER initiatives
Related to FLOSS (Free / Libre / Open
Source Software):
• Groups
• Conferences/Events
• Courses / Trainings / Research
• Linux distributions and Open
Source projects development
Related to OER, OEP and Open
Content/Access:
• Courses / Trainings / Programs
• Open Content / Open Access /
Communities for OER and OEP
• Studies

6. Open Educational Resources / Practices (1)
- "OER Awareness Activities for Librarians and
Academics in Romania", funded by CC Affiliate
Project, implemented in 2013-2014 by ApTI
Association for Technology and Internet, Soros
Foundation Romania and National Association of
Libraries and Librarians in Romania:
workshops/events related to OER/MOOC, two
guides
- Projects and sites that offer
information/workshops about copyright issues,
open licenses and OER: Open Educational
Resources Policy in Europe
http://oerpolicy.eu/?s=romania,
http://kosson.ro, http://acces-deschis,
http://copy-me.org, http://www.ordu.ro,
http://dreptuldeautor.noisieu.ro/creative-
commons
- Different products developed under CC licenses
http://ro.creativecommons.org
- Digital resources on the KEP portal created
by teachers and pupils in the pre-university
system, by using different Web2.0
technologies, guide “OER for different
disciplines” http://tinyurl.com/KEPOERguide
- KEP launched two guides in 2012, having as
central topics the OER and collaborative
technologies (Web2.0) in education:
"Integration of new technologies in
education" and "Using ICT for educational
activities"
- Open journals related to open education are
http://iteach.ro/experientedidactice,
http://www.elearning.ro
- Open materials and discussions around them:
http://forum.portal.edu.ro, http://didactic.ro,
http://e-scoala.ro, http://www.dascali.ro,
http://educatie.inmures.ro

7. Open Educational Resources
/ Practices (2) - Teachers training in KEP, Didatec project
(http://ctmtc.utcluj.ro/sites/didatec_ )
received certificates, acknowledging also their
skills in using/creating OER
- Training/courses related to open educational
pedagogies are offered by Moodle Romania,
Didatec, iTeach, Sloop2desc, ActiveWatch
Media Monitoring, UPT Technology Enhanced
Learning hosted by Cirip.eu, Compendiu.ro -
links at
http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Romania#Re
gional_OER_initiatives
- Projects related to MOOCs:
- UniCampus http://unicampus.ro - under the
initiative of University Politehnica Timisoara,
Unicampus is a project developed by the
Association of Technical Universities from
Romania
- Credis Bucuresti with a MOOC platform based
on Google Apps
- University "Vasile Goldis" Arad partnership
with Fédération Européenne des Écoles
- Projects under CC licenses for Informal
Learning / Serendipity: Romanian Encyclopedia
http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro , Veioza Arte
http://veiozaarte.ro - a video sharing platform
acting as an open source production house for
the Romanian cultural scene, Local Records
http://www.localrec.ro are collections of audio
products, Brașov Creative Commons Film
Festival http://bvccfilmfest.tumblr.com
- City Projects http://cityprojects.ro - community
proposing/working on software projects for
local communities/ smart cities, based on open
data
- Most of the national projects related to OER
are designed / implemented for the pre-
university level, while in academia they are
implemented by a single university or a group
of universities

8. Strengths in Romanian OER initiatives
Romania is active in the OER movement:
• trainings/courses related to OER and OEP organized for both pre-
university and university sectors
• formal documents at governamental level related to OER and Web2.0
• national events related to open resources produced by pre-university
teachers; national guides were published too
• directories with open resources (more numerous for pre-university
level)
• projects in development for MOOCs at university level and for
continuing education
• strong communities/events for open source, open access, open data,
open licences.

9. From POERUP elevator pitch (march 2013): 26 countries in 26 minutes, slide 11
http://www.slideshare.net/witthaus/poerup-elevator-pitch

10. • The educational content which already
exists, mainly in AeL/SEI, should be used
more intensive by teachers and students:
connections with curricula, the skills they
develop should be more clear; encourage
and support the sharing of best
practices; should be licenced under CC
(*)
• Create a repository with the educational
projects in which Romanian schools,
universities and educational
organizations have participated, under
CC licencies (*)
• Public outputs from European
Commission programs should be made
open, for example using Creative
Commons licenses (**)
• Collaborations between schools and
universities in regards to OER projects
(**)
(*) from KEP Recommendations 2007
(**) from POERUP 2014
Recommendations (1)

11. Recommendations (2)
• Partnership of Ministry of Education
with publishers, broadcasters, libraries,
cultural institutions to provide open
access to their own resources (*)
• All teachers training programmes
should contain topics related to OER,
new licenses and tools to create
educational materials in a collaborative
manner (*)
• Encourage a competitive market for
educational resources production,
guarantee transparency of supply and
equal opportunities to market actors;
Define a set of quality criteria (*)
• Budgets for digital education should
include money for developing and
maintaining OER (**)
• OER should be allowed on approved
materials lists (**)
• Encourage Europe-wide validation of
learning acquired online (not only via
OER and MOOCs) (**)
(*) from KEP Recommendations 2007
(**) from POERUP 2014

12. Integrating MOOCs in Blended Courses
Carmen Holotescu, Gabriela Grosseck, Vladimir Cretu, Antoanela Naaji (2014)
upt.academia.edu/CarmenHolotescu

13. Blending MOOCs in university courses - EdX
„We are taking what we are learning and the technologies we are developing in
the large and applying them in the small to create a blended model of
education to really reinvent and reimagine the classroom.”
We need to go from lectures on the blackboard to online exercises, online
videos. We have to go to interactive virtual laboratories and
gamification. To go to completely online grading and peer
interaction and discussion boards.
Everything really has to change.”
Anant Agarwal, 2013. Why massive open online courses (still) matter.
A TED presentation,
ted.com/talks/anant_agarwal_why_massively_open_online_courses_still_matter.html

14. Variants of blending MOOCs in university courses

15. Web Programming, 2013-14/2014-15, III CTI
• HTML/HTML5, Javascript, CSS, XML, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Ajax;
• Web2.0/Social Media (blogging, microblogging, social networks, collaborative
applications, curation/collaborative bookmarking systems, RSS feeds, mash-ups), Open
Educational Resources and Creative Commons licenses, Massive Open Online Courses.

16. announcements
modules
collaborative
exercises
learning from the
stream
multimedia
messages
opennes to (small)
OERs
polls/quiz/
comments via
SMS (f2f)
validations -
interactions
with
users/experts
/ groups
Web Programming Blended Course
Cirip.ro: msLMS

17. Mobile learning features
• Allow students to become familiar (aware) with the MOOC phenomenon and
trends:
•the most important players/platforms/offers, types of learning,
interaction and specific pedagogies
•to be able to search and evaluate useful and quality MOOCs;
• To enlarge knowledge/topics of the course, to obtain an auxiliary support for
students’ group project development;
• Allow students to have concrete views, opinions and proposals on MOOCs
and to critically evaluate their usefulness for personal development and for
different ways of integration in formal higher education courses.
Aims of integrating MOOCs

18. Steps for MOOCs Integration
• 1.MOOCs discovery and selection - #mooc:
•openeducationeuropa.eu
•mooc-list.com
•futurelearn.com
•class-central.com
• 2.Participation in MOOCs –requirement: at least 10% of the activities
• 3.MOOCs participation evaluation: survey with 55 responders/70 students

19. MOOCs Participation Evaluation
• knew about MOOCs before the course (49%)
• followed MOOCs before the course (29%)
• will follow MOOCs after the course (100%)
• activities completed in MOOCs (66%: > 50%, 24%: 100%)
Followed MOOCs:
Coursera (44%),
Udemy (23%),
Udacity, edX, Khan
Academy,
Codecademy,
FutureLearn, but
also European
MOOCs found on
Open Education
Europa
In the same time
MOOCs for other
disciplines

20. A Model for MOOCs Integration

21. - For teachers:
- new skills and tasks:
- complex course design/management
- OERs and MOOCs curation
- evaluation of distributed/collaborative
activities of students,
- facilitation of the local learning
community and nurture of its
integration in the global communities of
MOOCs
- improving knowledge in their own area
of expertise
- improving their competencies/skills for
adopting new models of OEP
- For students:
- autonomy in assessing their own
learning needs for choosing the
MOOCs in which to participate
- exposing to:
- high quality materials created with
top educational technologies
- collaboration in global learning
communities
- a broader range of experiences
Benefits/Challenges of MOOCs integration in blended
courses/flipped classrooms
make xMOOCs more close to cMOOCs

22. Mulțumesc!
Carmen Holotescu
Twitter, Cirip: @cami13