Open Educational Ideas and Innovations (OEI2) Author: Henri Pirkkalainen, PhD, Project Researcher University of Jyväskylä, Finland

1. Open Educational Ideas
and Innovations (OEI2)
Idea sharing in open professional virtual
communities
Henri Pirkkalainen
PhD, Project Researcher
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

2. The key issue: How to increase educational collaborations
towards new courses and services
- e.g. co-creating Open Educational Resources

3. Potential of OER
versus current uptake
Clear benefits of using
& re-using OER
• Collaboration
• Quality improvement
• Cost savings
• Foster/enable cross-border
teaching
OER use and re-use not (yet) a
common practice in Higher
Education, schools & enterprises
Re-use of OER is generally low
Lack of
appreciation &
recognition in
the community

4. New measures needed
Proposing a new approach to Open Education: Idea sharing
-Developing ideas collaboratively instead of sharing something that is finalized
-Utilizing virtual communities with shared interests and ambition
How to do this?

5. Exchanging ideas on
• OERs
• Full courses
• Open textbooks
• Educational projects
• Supplementary materials
• Etc.
Share your own or join existing
ones
-Plan your steps
-write collaboratively
-Use collaborative features
(conferencing, chatting etc)
-Share your workhttp://idea-space.eu/

6. http://idea-space.eu/
Current ideas worked on:
-OER for refugees
-Programming for kids
-Healthy school project
-New educational services
-Open Badges for OER
-….
Considerations:
-Sharing ideas in a distributed setting not trivial
-Outcome expectations need to be clear
-Are you protective towards your ideas or do you welcome the help of others?

7. Curious?
Create an idea space
-We’ll help to spread the word about
your idea & invite collaboration
among our network
Idea Space in your environment?
-Exploring possibilities to integrate
the Idea Space for your purposes

8. Thank you
#OpenIdeas
#OER
@hejupirk
Henri Pirkkalainen
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