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Opening Education: Innovative, Inclusive,

Excellent

Opening Education: Innovation, Inclusion,

Excellence

A journey to Innocludence!

Welcome Addresses• Representative of Ministry of Education, Portugal • Mr. Roberto Carneiro, Dean of the Institute for

Distance Learning at the Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal

• Mr. Francisco Ventura Ramos, President of the National Institute for Public Administration, Portugal

• Ms. Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz, Advisor to the Director of Higher Education and international affairs in the European Commission

• Mr. Claudio Dondi, President of EFQUEL, Belgium

Introduction to the conference

• 103 Delegates• 21 Countries

Day 1: Thursday

The BIG Shift

Day 2: Friday

How can open educational practices contribute to better

inclusion, innovation and excellence in education?

Workshop at EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2010

Agenda

Introduction

Getting to know each other

Presentation of the workshop topic and the project

Shaping our toolkit - Vision building:

Barriers and Obstacles

The way forward: How can we contribute to Inocludence?

Introduction to the workshop process, the template poster, and the workshop theme

10

Getting to know each other How is each of us connected to the topic? Speed dating: 5 x 1,5 min. conversations between the participants in the room

15

Presentation of the workshop topic and the project (e.g.Open Educational Practices, Self-evaluation, user generated content, equal

access to HE, Research). Each workshop theme represents a part of the tools we need to get to Innocludencia.

Question & Answer Session

15

Shaping our toolkit - Vision building: - What do we have and how should it look like? - How does an OEP Vision, a UGC Vision, a self-evaluation etc. vision look like?

In small groups brainstorming to develop a vision around the subject which has been introduced (documentation with small cards or post-its on a flip-chart)

- Sharing back and creating a group vision

40

Barriers and Obstacles- What are the most difficult obstacles and the barriers to reach our vision?- Sharing cases and experiences between participants in small groups

30

The way forward: How can we contribute to Inocludence?- What shall we suggest to the plenary from our perspective – how to reach

Innocludencia?- Which steps have to be taken?- Which resources and tools can we propose?- would be needed?- Small group work to come up with necessary steps and recommendations

(for practice, policy, research)

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EFQUEL Innovation Forum

Opening Education: Inclusive, Innovative, Excellent

The Why of Quality?!Contribute to reach

Innocludence

• actively participate in improving life in their societies, engage in cultural and learning activities, and actively shape a new vision of civil society,

• are able to engage actively into a self-determined work relation with employers and are able to fulfil, innovate and further develop their jobs and organisations,

• acquire skills for self-development which make them autonomous and competent to solve problems in an unforeseeable future, and

• be equipped with skills to engage into and shape intercultural global cooperation within their fields of interest and profession.

Day 1: Expert Camps

Questions of Day 1

• What shall we suggest to the plenary from our perspective – how to reach Innocludence?

• Which steps have to be taken?• Which resources and tools can we propose?• Which would be needed?

Result: 20 Recommendations

Keynote Speech

Dr. Rosario Farmhouse, High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue, Portugal

Day 2: Friday4 new Groups

Group distribution

see handout

• The guidance committees are the place in the conference in which the final outcome recommendations are selected, (re-)formulated and debated.

• We draw on the 20 recommendations of the expert camps

• The Guidance committees have the task to boil it down to the Top 3 recommendations.

• The Top 3 recommendations should be the – most important and – most urgent recommendations to reach the Vision of

Innocludence.

Working in the Guidance Committees

4 Steps• Preparation• Ranking• Rephrasing and Final Touch• Promoting the Outcome Statements

Promoting the outcome statements

Group 1 (Jan)

1. Research Agendas should make room for the issue of quality of open educational practices (standards, recommendations and methodologies).

promote the involvement of practitioners in education and lifelong learning.

Explain scope of OEPs in explanatory note

• 2. EFQUEL should promote leadership by participatory process to initiate, promote and sustain open educational practices in educational institutions.

importance of institutional leadership

• 3. Create a confidence culture to share open educational experiences, principles and practices in networks and communities with different stakeholders (learners, teachers and leaders).

Group 2 (Eileen)

• We recommend innovative leadership which is initiating, promoting and sustaining open educational practices in organisations.

• Enrich existing European Institutions (EFQM / ENQA) for promotion and development of evaluation as tool for quality of education and training and organisational development based on research.

• Establish a recognition mechanism for the content creation of students and teachers e.g. by sharing success stories on UGC (potential role of EFQUEL).

Group 3 (Jim)

Policy Maker• We need policies which ensure that no social

group is excluded (by technological, economical, cultural reasons), which promote reusing of existing (learning) resources, and which make open educational practises attractive, specifically for excluded groups.

• Professionals and Practitioners

Stakeholders (corporations, practitioners, researchers, academics, ...) should become involved in collaborative research.

• Professionals and Practitioners AND Researchers

Share open pedagogic experiences, principles and practices in networks and in communities with different stakeholders (learners, teachers, leaders, ...) and develop and adapt quality standards, recommendations and methodologies for open educational practices.

Group 4 (Fabio)

• Initiate, promote and sustain the release of existing (learning) resources, specifically at institutional level, making OEP attractive specifically for excluded groups

1. Smoothen and speed up the process for research-funding and implementation especially in Technology-enhanced Learning

• Promote a culture of evaluation in Europe by encouraging research and userfriendly self-evaluation methods and tools in every sector of LLL

1. Develop and promote a research- based set of quality standards, methodologies and tools around OER and OEP, by involving all stakeholders and learner communities