Webinar: Institutional Open Education and OER Policies

Paul Bacsich, POERUPwww.poerup.info

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23 June 2014

POERUP: summary

• Inventory of more than 500 OER initiatives worldwide• 33 country reports – most being updated• 7 case studies including FutureLearn, ALISON, and OER U• 3 generic policy documents: HE, FE and schools• In progress: Policy documents for UK (E, W, S), Ireland,

France, Netherlands, Spain, Poland – and Canada• Project reports in September 2014

Why policies?Because...

1. Business planning2. Allocation of scarce resources

3. We have them for everything else!

Policies: the levels1. World (UNESCO,....)2. Continental (Europe)3. Bloc (EU)4. Country (UK)5. Autonomous Region (England)6. Subregion (Borsetshire)7. Institution (Poppleton University)8. Department (Basketry)9. Me! (MOOC on underwater basketweaving)

As above, so below (Trismegistus, H. – n.d.)

Levels of engagement in an institution

1. Localised exploitation – of OER 2. Internal integration – of OER 3. Business process redesign – based on OER4. Business network redesign – between HE and

delivery partners5. Business scope redefinition – unbundling?

Reference?

OER in contextE-learning

Distance learning

OERMOOCs

Strategies must cohere

Flexible learning

Sector actors• Ministry – or ministries• Funding councils• Quality agencies (are they in ENQA?)• Grant and/or loan scheme operators• Associations of providers – and sub-sectors • Unions• Student associations…

UNESCO OER headings x 101. Foster awareness and use of OER2. Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications

Technologies (ICT)3. Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER4. Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks5. Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning

materials6. Foster strategic alliances for OER7. Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages

and cultural contexts8. Encourage research on OER9. Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER10. Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public

funds

Opening Up Education: awareness/use• Widen access to education at all levels, both formal

and non-formal, in a perspective of lifelong learning (thus contributing to social inclusion, gender equity and special needs education); by the promotion and use of OER

• Improve cost-efficiency of teaching and learning outcomes; through greater use of OER.

• Improve quality of teaching and learning outcomes; through greater use of OER.

POERUP: some summary recommendations

• Foster innovation and cost-analysis• Ensure quality review is mode-neutral• Systematise APL/APEL including introducing an

Open Accreditor• Move from time-based to output-based

measures: Bologna-bis

But how do I do it?

Ideas

(Other) Sources of inspiration• Projects: OPAL recommendations for institutions (old)• UK: Flexible Learning; FELTAG; Wales; Scotland• Institutional e-learning strategies (several new ones)• MIT90s gives you the structure• Benchmarking (e-learning) gives you the topics to focus on: usual

suspects – strategy, staff development, IT etc• Business model: that’s the hard part!

– Tip: look for allies and partners