Raising Awareness on Open Educational Practices in the Latin American Higher

Education Context

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PROJECT OportUnidadOpen 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

“White, D. Manton, M. JISC-funded OER Impact Study, University of Oxford, 2011” http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/oer/OERTheValueOfReuseInHigherEducation.pdf

Almost 600 M. inhabitants Over 2,500 universities 7,000 HE institutions (1)15 million students (2)70 Latin American Ues 10 countries (OCW Universia) over 200 courseTemoa - 30,000 ERSciELO- REDALYC (20 art. OER)

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

OportUnidadRegional Agenda

General objective:Strengthen the EU-LA Common Higher Education Area, through a bottom-up approach, by the increasing the use of open educational practices and resources (OEP & OER)

Cooperation to contribute in the

economical and social development

of HE

Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil)

Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador

Fundación Uvirtual, Bolivia

Universidad Virtual del Tecnológico de Monterrey (UVTM), Mexico

Universidad de la Empresa, Uruguay

Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (UIGV), Peru

Universidad EAFIT, Colombia

LA Partners

Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” (USGM), Italy

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

University of Oxford (UOXF), United Kingdom

EU Partners

- Raise awareness & HEI participation in OEP.- Define the OER Agenda for the re-use of OER- Define a mid-term strategic roadmap (local-institutional level) - Train teachers how to use and reuse OER (e-skills) - Pilot start-up open educational practices (transactional linkage).

Specific Objectives of OportUnidad

Pilot start-upOEP

OER Awarenessraising

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Common HE Area

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Regional HUBs– Partners > regional hubs– Nominations – Self-nominations *(survey)• 60 universities:a) Definition of OER Agendab) Institutional roadmapc) Pilot OER training course

(educators)d) Start-up of OEP

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

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Universidade Federal Fluminense & Oxford Internet Institute

Agenda of OER re-useEU-LA’s strategy for

OEP in HEPolicies/actions to

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

Consultations (managerial level) of the LA partner universities

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Institutional roadmap(s)- Mid-term strategic plan:Implementation of OEP Agendaat 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;

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

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

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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