idea sharing in open professional virtual communities

Open Educational Ideas

and Innovations (OEI2)

Idea sharing in open professional virtual communities

Henri Pirkkalainen

PhD, Project Researcher

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

The key issue: How to increase educational collaborations

towards new courses and services

- e.g. co-creating Open Educational Resources

Potential of OER

versus current uptakeClear benefits of using

& re-using OER • Collaboration

• Quality improvement

• Cost savings

• Foster/enable cross-border

teaching

OER use and re-use not (yet) a

common practice in Higher

Education, schools & enterprises

Re-use of OER is generally low

Lack of

appreciation &

recognition in

the community

New measures needed

Proposing a new approach to Open Education: Idea sharing

-Developing ideas collaboratively instead of sharing something that is finalized

-Utilizing virtual communities with shared interests and ambition

How to do this?

Exchanging ideas on

• OERs• Full courses• Open textbooks• Educational projects• Supplementary materials• Etc.

Share your own or join existing

ones

-Plan your steps

-write collaboratively

-Use collaborative features

(conferencing, chatting etc)

-Share your workhttp://idea-space.eu/

http://idea-space.eu/

Current ideas worked on:

-OER for refugees

-Programming for kids

-Healthy school project

-New educational services

-Open Badges for OER

-….

Considerations:

-Sharing ideas in a distributed setting not trivial

-Outcome expectations need to be clear

-Are you protective towards your ideas or do you welcome the help of others?

Curious? Create an idea space

-We’ll help to spread the word about

your idea & invite collaboration

among our network

Idea Space in your environment?

-Exploring possibilities to integrate

the Idea Space for your purposes

Thank you

#OpenIdeas

#OER

@hejupirkHenri Pirkkalainen

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