OEB12: Types of OCW Scenarios for virtual mobility

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Guidelines for the Use of OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility(Seminar in ONLINE EDUCA)

Edmundo [email protected]

Types of OCW Mobility Scenarios

OpenCourseWare in the European HE context

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Best Practices using OER/OCW


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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

PUBLIC Students, staff

INSTANT Before

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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

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

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


INSTANT Before, during, instead of

RELEVANCE 1

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3. Bridging


• 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


INSTANT Before

RELEVANCE 2

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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


INSTANT Before, during, instead of

RELEVANCE 3

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5. To improve the spirit of mobility – emotional aspects


• 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

PUBLIC Students, staff, governance, institution

INSTANT Before

RELEVANCE 2

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6. 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


INSTANT Before

RELEVANCE 2

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7. 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

PUBLIC Students, staff, governance, institution

INSTANT Before, during, after

RELEVANCE 1

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8. 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.

PUBLIC Students, governance, institution

INSTANT Instead of

RELEVANCE 1(virtual), 5(real)

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9. 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´´

PUBLIC Students, staff, institution

INSTANT Before, during, after, instead of

RELEVANCE 2

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10. 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

PUBLIC Students

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RELEVANCE 2

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11. Students interactions online become archives


• Interaction between students in an online community of an OCW scenario

• Advantages:– Extracting interesting and useful information, making teaching

materials.– Leveraging solutions to resolve student doubts and problems – Allows collaboration in the production of materials between students

of different institutions.


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12. OCW can provide context to courses – advising + pathways


• OCW as a model of excellence.• Advantages:

– Inspiring professors to develop materials.– Ensuring quality of materials and globilize them in any academic

environment.– Guiding the student in the study mode (lessions + theoretical

questions + practical excercises) of a particular subject.


INSTANT Dduring

RELEVANCE 4

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13. Place course content in cultural context


• OCW in a cultural context• Advantages:

– Unifying academic information (breaking taboos, historical reasons)– Cultural Exchange– Overview of the cultural environment– Real content

PUBLIC Students

INSTANT Dduring

RELEVANCE 1

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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

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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

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Bridging

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As a student in a foreign university I had the opportunity to assist in a teaser course of the subject Artificial Intelligence. The teaser course consisted of attending a free seminar for every student that wanted to enroll it. During the seminar I was able to attend different workshops presented by the professors of Artificial Intelligence where students were able to see real world examples of what can be done with Artificial Intelligence, as well as an introduction presentation done by the coordinator of this subject. This seminar was the main reason why I was motivated to enroll into this subject because previously, I didn’t have any knowledge of what artificial intelligence was.

Teaser courses

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Bridging

Teaser courses

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