6. " We must engage in a fundamental transformation of our
education and training systems
And we need to fully exploit the potential that open and flexible
education offers" (Commissionaire Vassilio EADTU 120929)
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7. EC Recommendations for Higher
Education Opening up Education
review their organisational strategies
exploit the potential of Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)
stimulate innovative learning practices such as
blended learning
equip teachers with high digital competences
equip learners with digital skills
think about how to validate and recognise learner’s
achievements in online education
make high quality Open Education Resources (OER)
visible and accessible
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15. A quick tour through some acronyms
• RBL - resource based learning
• RLO – reusable learning object
• OER – open educational resource
• OEP – open educational practice
• OEC – open edcuational culture
• OEI – open education idea*
• MOOC- massive open online courses (c and x,and a lot in
between)
• TLA – three letter acronymn
* Source: http://www.idea-space.eu/open-educational-ideas-a-new-approach-
for-open-education/ - 31 Jan 2014
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19. Why the interest in resource reuse?
Emphasis on mass HE, measuring
quality in learning and teaching.
Reuse helps to pay for online learning
Cost reduction by sharing at scale.
Knowledge transfer to developing
world. Changing teaching practices.
Technological changes with online and
digital resources easy to repurpose/reuse.
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20. Where are we now?
• We’ve solved most of the technical problems
• We now have is the human issues*
* Hm. Would money or
recognition or reward
(technical) or greater clarity
about copyright (technical)
solve these problems?
2013 Chris Pegler
23. #oereswe
9 webinars
1589 registered
1146 participants
4232 views
The domain www.oersverige.se
7800 unique visitors from 2230 sources
All together unique visitors and those who viewed the recordings
were appr 12000
1 SverdNytt 3, 2012 http://nytt.sverd.se/
2
ScieCom, http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/
view/5678/4929
3 Final report
4 Presentations, OER13, April 2013, Nottingham, NGL14, Dalarna
University, Falun, March 2014
HU Journal Higher Education (Swedish)
Establish Networks and CoP
To be continued….
24. Whats up in Sweden?
Framtidens lärande
Nya vägar
Regeringsutredning
Tillväxtananlys
SOU 2014:13 En digital agenda i människans tjänst
– en ljusnande framtid kan bli vår
Utbildningsvetenskapligt råd
MOOCs KI, LU, UU
Several HEIs – strategies, policy, action plans
28. Nordic OER #nordicoer
Network and project
Recommendations in 7
languages
Position paper
Cooperation with other
projects
www.noordicoer.org
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34. Quality – in the eye of the beholder?
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35. Quality framework for MOOCs in Europe
• Openness to learners
• Digital openness
• Learner-centred approach
• Independent learning
• Media-supported interaction
• Recognition options
• Quality focus
• Spectrum of diversity
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36. Massive target group
Mixing groups
Learning across contexts
Support self-organization
Declare whats in it
Peer to peer pedagogy
MOOCs support choice based
learning
MOOC.EFQUEL.ORG
MOOC Quality Project:
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38. Learner initiated
Externally
set
Learning contextGuided
Learninggoals
§
Self-
guided
Networked knowledge Distributed knowledge
Fit for success My career path
Universities play a key role:
→ As professional training
providers
→ As educational content
providers
Universities play a key role:
→ As educational content
providers
→ For certification and
accreditation
A global open research
arena enables anybody
to engage in research
Universities play a key role:
→ as research hubs
Guided discovery Self-guided discovery
Guided journey Self-guided journey
MOOCs MOOCs
41. So why spend time on MOOCs and
OER
Individual level
Institutional level
National level
Global level
Personalization
Sustainbility
Collaborate to compete
Life long learning
Get the best of the best…
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42. International workshop on policy for OER
and less used languages
28 April, Oslo
OER and challenges and opportunities for less used
languages in a global, European, Nordic and national
perspective.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsly/94236282/ - Thomas Sly
We live in a time when knowledge is increasing at an exponential rate. People’s roles, jobs and skills change many times over a lifetime - so the ability to keep learning essential. Learning is more critical than knowing. “Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today” (Siemens)This is a basic principle of connectivism, an influential theory of learning for a digital age first put forward by George Siemens.He also said “the network is the learning” - new knowledge can be found in many places, distributed across a network of connections, so in order to learn we need to be able to “construct and traverse those networks” (NB “network”= the pipeline(how you connect), people (who can tell you what you need to know) or things (e.g. websites, corpus data)In the “old” days, new knowledge was only available through universities, conferences or articles. Nowadays this know-how is available to EVERYONE, we just have to know where to look - or who to ask.
Karen: If you had told me my PLN would look like this a year ago, I would have laughed in your face! I wasn’t even on Facebook let alone Twitter…..and had no idea what PLN meant…Twitter & Blogs are larger font as these have the most impact on my learning at the moment (explain briefly some of the connections in the diagram).You can see how connected the PLN is. I learn from many many other people, and with other people: I am basically connected to a global staffroom of engaged and interested teachers…..>>