Welcome toGetting Started with Open Education

Facilitators:Mary Lou Forward, OCW ConsortiumGijs Houwen, Delft University of TechnologyIgnasi Labastida, University of BarcelonaIgor Lesko, OCW ConsortiumAlek Tarkowsi, Creative Commons PolandEdmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University of MadridFred Truyen, KU LeuvenWillem van Valkenburg, TU Delft

Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

Workshop objectives:

1. Provide an overview of open education along with specific project examples

2. Provide information about copyright and open licensing, along with hands-on activities to demonstrate how they work

3. Help participants develop open education strategies, including:1. Creating a community of support for open education at your

institution;2. Understanding important aspects of open policies;3. Outlining an action plan appropriate to your situation

What is Open Education?

• Education builds the future.• Education is sharing.• Open allows more rapid building

and sharing at a larger scale.

Open Education starts with basic ideas:

Open EducationTerms Open Educational ResourcesOpenCourseWareOpen TextbooksOpen DataOpen MOOCsOpen AccessOpen Educational Practice

= Free and Open

OER are teaching, learning, and research materials that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing, to permit their free use and re-purposing by others.

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Free no cost

Open No cost +

permission to change

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OpenCourseWare in the European HE context

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

Union