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Raising Awareness on Open Educational Practices in the Latin American Higher Education Context

Info at: www.oportUnidadproject.eu

Antonio Teixeira, University of Lisbon, Portugal Cristobal Cobos, University of Oxford, UK

Andreia Inamorato, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Marcelo Maina, Universidad Oberta Catalunya, Spain

Daniel Vilar, University of Oxford, UK

PROJECT OportUnidad Open educational practices: a bottom-up approach in Latin America and Europe to develop a common Higher Education Area

PROGRAMME ALFA III - Lot 1: Joint Projects

DURATION 30 months (1 Jan 2012 – 30 June 2014)

PARTNERS 12 Partners from LA and EU

AIM Foster openness in Higher Education

OportUnidad

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).

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education - Web of Knowledge - Science - Thomson Reuters

Specific Objectives

of OportUnidad

Pilot start-up OEP

OER Awareness

raising

Management Quality & Evaluation

Dissemination Exploitation

Lesson Learned

Training course

C.Cobo, Open Education Week webinar, 6 March 2012

Common HE Area LA-UE

Regional HUBs – Partners > regional

hubs – Nominations – Self-nominations

*(survey) • 60 universities:

a) Definition of OER Agenda

b) Institutional roadmap c) Pilot OER training

course (educators) d) Start-up of OEP

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Compendium of EU-LA OER practices Good EU and LA models will be exchanged and transferred. Shows the benefits and pitfalls of the use of OER in HE

WP2: OER awareness raising

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Universidade Federal Fluminense & Oxford Internet Institute

WP2: OER awareness raising

Agenda of OER re-use

EU-LA’s strategy for OEP in HE

Policies/actions

to boost the benefit of the use and re-use of OER in HE.

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Institutional roadmap(s) - Mid-term strategic plan: Implementation of OEP Agenda at local/institutional level

- Shaped by local, cultural and institutional framework.

- In consultation with the managerial level of the (60) universities.

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Engaging: OER sharing to the community.

Understanding: OER movement, initiatives, purposes, history, and challenges

Defining: OER, OEP (open educational practices), OCW (Open courseware),

Aligning: OER to course requirements and pedagogical pathways;

Identifying: OER search in repositories and on the Web;

Repurposing: OER reuse, remix, rework, localizing;

Creating: OER from scratch;

Implementing: OER plan for action;

WP3: OER training Course production Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Start-up of OER Participants will start-up OEP in their universities as part of the implementation of the institutional roadmap

WP4: OER Course Experimentation – Pilots Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica

Long term results • Foster the role of HE to provide knowledge not only to

their on-campus students but also beyond the walls of institutions to disadvantages groups (i.e. low income peoples, disables, indigenous), adult learners, and students coming from not traditional routes.

• An increasing level of quality of contents is expected as a long term result of the initiative.

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Thank You very much!

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