Open educational practices: a bottom-up

approach in Latin America and Europe to

develop a common Higher Education Area

OportUnidad

Info at: www.oportUnidadproject.euhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4909004716/

PROJECT OportUnidad

PROGRAMME ALFA III - Lot 1: Joint Projects

DURATION 30 months (starting date: 1 Jan 2012)

PARTNERS 12 Partners

AIM Foster openness in Higher Education

OportUnidad

What are the OER?

Background info: what are OER?

Open Educational Resources“...educational materials and resources

offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.”

Atkins et al. 2007; OECD & CERI 2007 or Cape Town Declaration, 2007 or UNESCO and COL 2011.3 key components: Open IP Licences (public domain); permission to use, adapt & replicate contents freely; non-discriminatory privilege.

Practices which support the production, use and reuse of

high quality OER through institutional policies, which

promote innovative pedagogical models, and

respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning path.

What are the Open Educational Practices ?

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Wikiversity, P2P U, UoPeople, Khan Academy, MOOCs, Udacity or MITx

-Freedom of access also enhances flexibility of resources (transdisciplinarity). -Boosting opportunities for learning, applying knowledge in a wider context. -Supporting self-directed and peer-to-peer informal learning (LLL). -Materials for review purposes (open peer review, feedback from student/user). -Contributes to reputational benefits, visibility for faculty (and institution). -Enhances or diversifies the curriculum. -Increase the sharing of ideas (new opportunities for different people and communities).-Supports widening participation: open textbooks reduce the cost of study for learners.

Reuse - Revise - Remix - Redistribute (Wiley, 2007)

Why OER?

What is open access?(that does not mean openly licensed)

Public Domain

All Rights Reserved

Least restrictive Most restrictive

OCW and OER

Overlap

http://www.slideshare.net/openmichigan/find-use-remix-and-create-open-learning-materials

http://www.slideshare.net/mrgarin/o-a-w-e-e-k2009

“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) (candidate)

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

OER Awareness WP2

M1-12

PilotExperimentation

WP4M13-30

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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Stages of the on-line training course (approx. 80 hrs)

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

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

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.

Cross-over activitiesManagement (WP1)Operative and financial managementMeetings (1º Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia)Project Quality & Evaluation (WP5)

Dissemination (WP6)Exploitation (WP7)

join us!

http://tinyurl.com/oer2012

Latin American universities and other Higher Education entities interested in becoming OportUnidad Fellow Organisations are invited to complete a self-nomination form

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This presentartion was jointly prepared by Cristina Stefanelli, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Italy

Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute, UKhttp://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/cobo@cristobalcobo

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