OER uptake in adult education institutions10 March 2015

Preliminary Remarks

• The webinar is recorded and it will be available on the project website www.oerup.eu

• Presentation of participants (participants are invited to type their name, affiliation and country in the chat room)

AGENDA OF THE WEBINAR

1. Introduction of the OERup! Initiative by Ines Kreitlein, MFG, Germany

2. Definitions and tensions

3. Barriers and drivers for the use of OER in adult education (guidelines for the group discussion) –> inputs here on the chat room

4. First results of the needs analysis and training concept

5. Group discussion:

– Barriers and drivers for the use of OER in adult education

– Further comments on the training concept

– Example of practices (open question) and training materials

6. What’s next

summer 2014 - summer 2016

HE SE AE

who we are

adressing adult learning professionals and the staff of adult learning institutions - but also policy makers in the field of adult learning

to help

IDENTIFY the status quo of OER use in Adult Education Institutions (AEI)

RAISE awareness around the value of OER & OEP

CREATE and FIND good Open Educational Practices

IMPROVE OEP skills of educational professionals

SET IN MOTION a culture of Open Education

and finally SUPPORT AEI’s in developing and implementing sustainable OEPs

what we aim for

what we are working on

Our main questions

• Can you guess how many adult learning institutions fully use OER today?

• How transformative is this?

• How will this evolve?

• What can we do to make this happen faster, better and more inclusively?

Definitions

• ADULT LEARNING: Adult learning is defined as all forms of learning undertaken by adults after having left initial education and training, however far this process may have gone (e.g., including tertiary education). Communication “It is never too late to learn”, European Commission, 2006

• OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES: OEP are practices which support the (re)use and production of OER through institutional policies, promote innovative pedagogical models, and respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning path. Whereas OER focus on content and resources, OEP represents the practice in which an educational method is employed to create an educational environment in which OER are used or created as learning resources. Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL), discussion paper: “Open educational practice - approaching a definition for a new concept”

Tensions

• Open versus free

• Pedagogy versus appreciation

• Altruism versus marketisation

• Community versus openness

• Mass participation versus quality

• Add-on versus embedded funding

Source: IPTS, Overview and Analysis of Practices with Open Educational Resources in Adult Education in Europe

Activities in OER projects in Adult Education

Group Discussion

BARRIERS DRIVERS

• Language issues

• Technology readiness of Adult Education professionals

• The concept of OER is new and confusing

• Low perceived quality of OER

• Lack of OER-based business models

• Lack of cultural recognition that ‘learning’ can take place outside formal structures

• …

• Simplicity and easy implementation of the OER idea

• Low budgets and motivation to reuse contents

• Free (no cost) access

• Broadening and enriching the learning offer

• Enabling collaborative / international projects

Barriers and drivers for the adoption of OER in adult education

Training Description

The OERup! training aims at fostering the implementation of open

educational practices in adult learning. Within a blended-learning format,

educational professionals as well as the staff and management of adult

learning institution will be trained in reusing, revising, remixing, and

redistributing OER. Further, participants will engage in setting up strategies

for OEP in their professional environment.

The training provides relevant content through expert sessions in forms of

webinars. In addition, it foresees the development of initial OER practices by

the participants in one face-to-face meeting of which first steps of the

implementation process will be accompanied by online coaching sessions.

Expected Learning Outcomes

After having participated in the training, the learner will

know about OER & OEP and be sensitized to the benefits of open practices in adult

learning

be aware of OER initiatives and communities and be well informed about the current

status quo

be able to apply appropriate licensing to their teaching material

be familiar with didactical concepts of how to include OER/OEP into their teaching

methods

know about the requirements for an open environment that is needed to implement

OEP in a sustainable manner

be equipped with the tools (guidelines, project plan, etc.) and first ideas that help them

to model their own Open Educational Practice

have developed a strategy and alongside initiated/completed their first OEP

be connected to colleagues who are interested in OEP for future exchange on the topic

Training Contents

1. OER & OEP - what is it? what‘s in it for me?• definition of the terms and the philosophy behind it• good practices

2. Creating, using, adapting, and distributing OER • licences (how to read them, how to use them)• metadata (what is needed in order to make OER findable)• accessibility (resources for different devices)• infrastructure – OER repositories (for educational professionals as well as learners)

• quality assurance of OER

3. Implementing OEP• integrating the learner in OEP (didactical aspects)• policies for OEP (institutional aspects)• OEP enriching the business concept

open culture/community building

Group Discussion

Enrich barriers and drivers table

Comment the training concept

Example of practices and training materials

WHAT’S NEXT

• Join our OERup! Community on Google+

• Let us know your interest to held a training webinar during the OERup! Training course for adult education professionals

• Participate in our OERup! event on June 8, 2015 in Barcelona hosted by UOC

• Meet project partners during the EDEN Conference (9-12 June 2015, Barcelona)

• Help us promoting the training course (or express your interest to participate) that will take place during the period September 2015 -February 2016

Thank you

www.OERup.eu

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