Presentation for the Analysis of Societies: Transformation, technology and education panel, Near East University, 18 May, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNN6rQjTI0s

1. Carmen Holotescu
Professor PhD, Dean Faculty of Engineering
Director Center for Open Education and Blockchain
University "Ioan Slavici" of Timisoara, Romania
Using OERs and MOOCs during School Closures

2. Open Education
Open Education is a way of carrying out education,
often using digital technologies. Its aim is to widen
access and participation to everyone by removing
barriers and making learning accessible, abundant,
and customisable for all. It offers multiple ways of
teaching and learning, building and sharing
knowledge. It also provides a variety of access
routes to formal and non-formal education, and
connects the two.
Source: OpenEdu Project: JRC Report "Opening up Education: a
support framework for HE institutions", 2016
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/open-education
Core and Transversal Dimensions
ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-
reports/opening-education-support-framework-higher-education-institutions

3. Open Educational Resources (OERs)
OERs are teaching, learning and research
materials in any medium that may be
composed of copyrightable materials released
under an open license, materials not
protected by copyright, materials for which
copyright protection has expired, or a
combination of the foregoing.
UNESCO (2002, 2019)
https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-
societies/oer
Recommendation on OER
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370936
2001 – MIT - open access to courses
http://ocw.mit.edu
Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/
https://oeconsortium.org/
OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi,
lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects,
audio, video and animation.
Big and Little OERs – on dedicated repositories
or on social networks. (Weller, 2010)

4. http://ocw.mit.edu, https://ocw.mit.edu/educator,
https://teachremote.mit.edu

5. Open Licenses – Creative Commons (CC)
creativecommons.org, Lawrence Lessig, 2001
https://creativecommons.org/tag/cc-romania/, 2008

6. Searching OERs
https://merlot.org https://poerup.info https://padlet.com/joerdis/repositories

7. Creating OERs
https://oercommons.org https://c4lpt.co.uk https://toptools4learning.com

8. OER Projects in response to Covid-19 (1)
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse

9. https://oer4covid.oeru.org https://ec.europa.eu/education/resources-and-tools/coronavirus-online-learning-resources_en https://teachfromhome.google
OER Projects in response to Covid-19 (2)

10. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
2008 – 1st MOOC: George Siemens and Stephen Downes co-taught “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge” - 25 tuition-paying students
at the University of Manitoba, Canada plus ~2300 participants worldwide, became co-creators of the course; content distributed on social
networks. web.archive.org/web/20080629220943/http://ltc.umanitoba.ca:83/connectivism/

11. MOOC directories
class-central.com
mooc-list.com
edx.org/verified-certificate
edx.org/xseries
edx.org/micromasters
udacity.com/nanodegree
coursera.org/specializations
futurelearn.com/programs
In May 2015 - the largest MOOC ever:
440,000 participants in English
Language Learning MOOC
http://tinyurl.com/largestMOOC
MOOC Platforms and directories

12. openuped.eu
home.eadtu.eu
Higher Education Online: MOOCs the European way
Fostering international Higher Education
collaboration though ICT and open education
menon.org/projects/emundus
The European Multiple MOOC Aggregator
platform.europeanmoocs.eu
home.eadtu.eu
The European Association of Distance
Teaching Universities
ecolearning.eu
bizmooc.eu
movemeproject.eu
“MOOCs are online courses designed for large numbers of participants (>148,
Dunbar number), that can be accessed by anyone anywhere as long as they
have an internet connection, are open to everyone without entry qualifications,
and offer a full/complete course experience online for free””.
eadtu.eu/documents/Publications/OEenM/Institutional_MOOC_strategies_in_Europe.pdf
langmooc.com
moocknowledge.eu
European MOOC Projects
October 2017 https://emc.eadtu.eu/ - Microcredentials on Blockchain

13. Design
•Open Designer:
•Shares and validates
his/her course design
ideas and curriculum
openly through social
media.
Content
•OER Expert:
•Uses open
educational content,
open licenses, by
facilitating sharing of
her resources, and
using OERs produced
by others in his/her
teaching.
Teaching
•Open Teacher:
•Adopts open
pedagogies fostering
co-creation of
knowledge and OERs
by students through
online and offline
collaboration.
Assessment
•Open Evaluator:
•Implements open
assessment practices
such as peer and
collaborative
evaluation, open
badges, and e-
portfolios.
Nascimbeni, F., & Burgos, D. (2016). In search for the Open Educator: proposal of a definition and a framework to
increase openness adoption among university educators. IRRODL, 17(6).
irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2736
Open Educator
An Open Educator is fluent with open approaches and is an activist for openness in (higher) education.
A possible Definition:
An Open Educator choses to use open approaches, when possible and appropriate, with the
aim to remove all unnecessary barriers to learning.
He/she works through an open online identity and relies on online social networking to enrich and implement his/her work,
understanding that collaboration bears a responsibility towards the work of others.

14. MOOCs for Open Educators
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teach-online https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
Curated quality MOOCs as learning paths and journeys towards openness; starting points in a life long learning journey of
learning; useful for individuals, but also for institutions tailoring their training programs and policies.
https://www.classcentral.com/report/free-online-learning-coronavirus

16. Carmen Holotescu
Twitter: @cami13
Research: tinyurl.com/cholotescu
Thank you!