Use of OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility Scenarios for Madrid Workshop

Use of OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility Scenarios

(Workshop OpenCourseware and Student Mobility)

Edmundo Tovar

[email protected] Sophie Touzé

OpenCourseWare in the European HE context

opencourseware.eu with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union 1

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Best Practices using OER/OCW


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Full potential of OERs vs mobility is not reached • The design of scenarios should help

universities analyse the opportunities and the barriers to the mobility using OER module-based learning.

OER «Erasmus»

«Use procedures as in your student exchange programmes»

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Guidelines

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Scenarios for guidelines

Phase 1

Methodology

Combining with apprenticeship

Managing apprenticeship & mobility

Scenarios for guidelines

Phase 2

Open Education for Successfull Mobility

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1. Teaser course

2.Language course 3.Bridging

4. Cultural

6.Open study community

9.Virtual mobility

8. Lifelong learning

10. Professional trainings

5.Context to course 7. Credit transfer

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Virtual Mobility Student Cycle


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4. Cultural


9.Virtual mobility

8. Community of Lifelong learners


5.Context to course 7. Credit transfer Double degree

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1. Teaser course


4. Cultural


9.Virtual mobility

8. Community of Lifelong learners


5.Context to course

7. Credit transfer Double degree

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Virtual Mobility Institutional Cycle

1. Teaser courses


• Pre-enrollment courses for a subject • Advantages:

– Promotion of subjects – Discloses the difficulty level of the material – Facilitates students selecting subjects in their Learning Agreement – Students acquire background knowledge

1. Teaser courses. OCW to facilitate physical – virtual mobility – experiences at center of interactions


• OCW allows student interaction • Advantages:

– Raising interest in certain material, program or professor – Coexistance between virtual and in-person education – Allows following online lessons from other universities – Native students can help other students ´´virtually´´

1. Teaser courses. OCW for content learning ahead of time


• OCW aimed to break the emotional barriers involving mobility.

• Advantages: – Encourage students to make mobility periods – Bringing students closer to the new educational institution – Reduce emotional obstacles to a mobility period – The student can compare universities or evaluate materials

Increased confidence

2. Language OCW – support for language learning = vocabulary building


• OCW helps acquiring communication skills in a language • Advantages prior to mobility:

– Helps students to meet admission requirements of the chosen University.

– Facilitates academic and cultural integration in the chosen University

• Advantages during mobility: – Support in the development of the language.

• Virtual Mobility: only applies if you are looking to learn the language

3. Bridging. Admission


• OCW required for admission to a program that requires mobility.

• Advantages: – The professor ensures homogeneity of knowledge among students in

the program. – Filter admission to a particular program. – Students acquire essential knowledge prior to mobility

4. Cultural/practical information (new country, new institution)


• OCW facilitating cultural integration and the new way of life in the new educational center.

• Advantages: – Facilitates stay during mobility – Adaptation into the new educational environment

• Virtual Mobility: Fostering intercultural communication

5. OCW for transparency/comparison – credit transfer


• OCW that facilitates credit recognition • Advantages:

– More accurate and objective credits assessment. – Facilitates collaboration between professors in the centers of origin

and destination. – Facilitates the international academic and research networking

6. New assessment + methodologies – business/companies give professional credits


• Professional courses with labor market recognition • Advantages:

– Approaching to the labor market. – Specific knowledge for adaptation to the professional environment. – There is no need to attend classroom courses in a company or an

institution.

7. Open environment can maintain bond to home university


• OCW facilitates the communication between institutions • Advantages:

– Possibility of virtual community among institutions – Improved relationships between institutions – Facilitates mobility plan of the institutions – Students can maintain their communication with the home university

Examples


Mario is the ECTS coordinator at Computer Science College – UPM, Spain. He is in charge of the evaluation of the courses content his students could take at host institutions, in order approve and to include them in the Learning Agreement.

He has always the same problem: a lot of times it is not possible to know in advance the courses content his students want to take at host institution, sometimes because this information is not available on the web site or sometimes because the information is not updated. If the information is not available it may happen that at best the Learning agreement needs to be changed later and at worst the course will not be validated at home university.

But Mario finds out that some universities

have their materials open, what helps him to know previously the accuracy of the contents, the objective assessment of the credits and the gradated system used. This information allows the coordinator to sign the students’ Learning Agreement with total confidence and guarantee. The OCW materials definitely help Mario to improve the future recognition of the courses the students take at host institutions.

Moreover, Mario starts collaboration with other teachers involved in the same topic he is working in. They are planning to create an international research group in a near future.

OCW for transparency/comparison – credit transfer

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Oskar studies Computer Science and Mathematics at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany. He found that UPM, Spain, offers OCW courses in several areas of his interest. He decides to follow one of these courses as self-leaner. He gets in contact to the professor. When he finished the course his feelings about the experience were really happy with the materials, the knowledge he got and the relationship with the teacher.

Now Oskar is thinking about the possibility to spend a study period abroad and as he can speak Spanish and he has good memories from his OCW experience, he is thinking to apply to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain, as ERASMUS student. He has been informed by his home

university that there is an agreement

between TUD and UPM, so he decides to apply for the exchange for next semester.

Oskar has been admitted to spend a semester within ERASMUS programme at UPM. He is following the courses at UPM, but at the same time he needs to follow a course at his home university. As his university also offers OCW courses he decides to register one OCW course at TUD while stay at UPM. He can combine both activities during his stay in Spain.

At the end of the semester Oskar has successfully accomplished UPM courses and OCW course at TUD and when he will come back home he will get his courses validated, both the UPM and the OCW ones.

OCW to facilitate physical - virtual mobility - experiences at center of interactions

Examples


OCW to facilitate physical - virtual mobility - experiences at center of interactions

Examples


Elena studies Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She is interested in study a very specific course at TUM, but to register the course it is mandatory to have deep knowledge in the area of () and at least she has got a minimum number of credits in the topic. She is worried because at this time it is not possible for her to accomplish this requirement at home.

Elena has not time to acquire the requested knowledge within formal lectures in order for her to be admitted at TUM. She find out that TUM offers OCW courses in the field she needs to improve, so she thought that if she take this course in parallel to her studies and go on till summer, she will likely get the knowledge and the credits required at TUM.

She checks if she would be admitted at TUM taking this OCW course. The answer from TUM is positive.

Therefore Elena registers in OCW course and combines her formal studies at home university with this OCW course in order to finish in summer just on time the application deadline at TUM.

Elena sends her application to TUM including the results of the OCW course. She is eager to get the admission although she is a bit nervous. She gets the letter of admission from TUM to take the specific course she wants to deep in.

Finally, in Germany, Elena does not have understanding problems to proper follow the course because her knowledge about the topic is really high and thus is allows her to get a high mark in the course.

Bridging

Examples


Bridging

Examples of Guidelines for the Use of OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility

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Mobility Case – Scenario 2: Language OCW


Juan studies Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has always liked Italian language, so he decides to enroll his final year from undergraduate studies in Rome. He is worried that his Italian is not enough to pass the courses he needs in order to graduate.

As Juan, does not have much time to

take courses where attendance is mandatory, and require pre-established schedule, he chooses to take some OCW Italian courses offered by the University where he is going to study next year.

During the summer, Juan is dedicated to learn the language gradually through the different levels of the materials that make up the courses.

When he is ready to travel to Italy, Juan is feeling so much confident, calm and assertive, as he is convinced that because of what he has learned, the linguistic limitations will be minimal.

Finally, in Italy, Juan does not have

communication problems. Social relations are made simpler, and he is able to understand the lessons taught in college. Juan will end his undergraduate studies in Italy with high marks.



• Didactics, learning styles , modular design – Analyze OCW user profile student of Computer Science

– Create generic Italian course

– Create submodels of courses as user profile Italian Course with

specific computer science (techical) vocabulary.



• Added value of OCW: – Creating virtual communities where students help and support

eachother Italian students resolve doubts to foreign students and correct their work

– Creating videos in Italian by native and foreign students Juan makes a video in Italian about an assignment, and can compare it with those of native students and have it corrected by them.

Teaser courses

Language OCW Bridging

Cultural information

Emotional aspects

Transparency/comparison

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Which of the scenarios do you consider feasible in your institution?

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