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EDEN Annual Conference 2015Pre-conference Policy Session:

EDEN 2015-2020 Strategy and Services of the Association in the Light

of the EU 2020 Policy Aims

THE OPEN EDUCATION EUROPA PORTAL

Agnès Aguiló9 June 2015, Barcelona

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Welcome to openeducationeuropa.eu

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“We strongly believe the moment has come when we can move to a society where

All individuals can learn Anytime,

Anywhere, using Any device

and with the support of Anyone”.

Xavier Prats-MonnéDeputy-Director General for Education and Culture

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Some achievements:

• Erasmus+, the Commission's funding programme for education now contains an "Open Access Requirement." That means any educational materials that have been produced with money from this programme have to be released under an open license (as Open Educational Resources, OER.

• Erasmus+ also encourages partnerships between creators of educational content to increase the supply of high quality OER in different languages.

• With the support of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS) we have developed

a digital competence framework for learners which has already been taken up in many regions. Further frameworks will follow and IPTS will also develop self-assessment tools for digital competences of learners, educators and institutions.

• Through work with the Member States we encourage education and training institutions to include

digital content, including OER, among the recommended educational materials for learners across educational levels”

From the anniversary 2014 message from Xavier Prats-Monné

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Become the access point to Open Education in Europe

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The openeducationeuropa.eu aim is:

• A collaborative network of OE institutions

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openeducationeuropa.eu NOT ONLY a website:

• A community of practitioners working together

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Open Education Europa: The Gateway to European Innovative Learning

• The Open Education Europa portal is an online meeting place for practitioners and educational institutions launched by the European Commission as part of the Opening Up Education initiative.

• The portal serves as a hub where learners, teachers, and experts can come together to find relevant, credible open resources and meaningful connections.

• It works in partnership with institutions and individuals, while carefully validating and monitoring its content to provide relevant, credible and up-to-date resources.

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• Showcases Open Education initiatives all over Europe• Features a powerful search with intelligent filters so that the users easily find what they are looking for• Presents OER, courses and MOOCs in a stuctured way, alongside the specific features that each require • Offers a multilingual interface and multilingual content built in collaboration with the best institutions in Europe• It aims at all educational levels.

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openeducationeuropa.eu highlighted features:

IN-DEPTH

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What it is:•A highly searchable, coherent and credible online resource centre.•It is built in close collaboration with participating institutions.

Key Features:•Supports practitioners and learners. •Creates visibility for institutions.•Provides access to free Open Learning Programmes throughout Europe

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http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/open_education_scoreboard

RSS harvesting institutions for OERby end March 2015

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Institution Edutags - Social Bookmarking für Lehrkräfte Koolielu METU OpenCourseWare The Open University Leeds Metropolitan University Methodological portal RVP.CZ The Nottingham University Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes NRW Lehrer-Online Deutsche Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF) Université Ouverte des Humanités (UOH)

•Leeds Becket University•Jorum•Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes NRW, and also

EU OER Repositories overview

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The majority are mainly focused on offering OERDifferent sizes: From 100 OERs to more than 300.000 publishedNot all of them (but many) reference clearly the Creative Commons licenseNearly none with user feedback/rating toolsMultilingual OER offered in some cases, even by national repositoriesUsually no reference to qualityNo standardization: taxonomies, subjects, structureInterest in sharing: Several repositories offer RSS

EU OER Repositories overview

IN-DEPTH

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What it is:• The portal’s main space for engaging the OE community of

practitioners to debate issues of common interest. • A forum for stimulating exchange of experiences, best practices and

know-how.

Key Features• Stimulates valuable user-generated content featuring blogs, discussion

groups and events, all linked to social media channels.• Offers an up-to-date directory featuring profiles of current site

members.• Fosters synergies and strategic partnerships among practitioners.

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For example:•The METIS project group

•OER: Content creation offering

•Education in the Digital Era: quality of learning

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A virtual collaborative space for you

Our newsletter:

IN-DEPTH

More than 30.000 subscribers

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IN-DEPTH

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What it is:•An open platform to rethink education and skills. •A meeting point for experts to come together and bring renewed thinking to how innovation in Open Education will improve teaching and learning.

Key Features•Showcases portal content on Open Education, in the form of a virtual Think Tank, with access to high-quality articles, and groundbreaking research and innovation. •Features the eLearning Papers the reference journal of the European Commission’s elearningeuropa portal, and one of the most valued scholarly journals on online learning.

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eLearning papers

MOOCs AND BEYOND

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eLearningpapers journal

eLearning papers 2015 topics are already addressing key issues of open education:•Nº 41: Innovation, entrepreneurship and education•Nº 42: Design Patterns for Open Online Teaching and Learning•Nº 43: Applied Games and Gamification – Drivers for Change (call for papers open)•Nº 44: Teacher-led Innovation and the teachers' role in the digital era•Nº 45: Open publishing and digital scholarship

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