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- 1. OPEN EU and ProfessionalGPS Carmen Pagés Director, Labor market research and Analysis Unit UOC Date: 14/01/2025
- 2. Overview 1.A few wordsabout OPEN EU 2.Professional GPS: connecting education with the labor market 3.What do we need? 4.Tool and next steps
- 3. 14 Universities ●10 Full+ 4 Associated partners ●9 Open + 5 Traditional 4 University Associations ●1 Global + 2 European + 1 national (FR) 8 Non-academic partners ●5 industrial associations ●1 digital network ●1 cities + 1 local rural groups EU associations ●1 EU association of mentorship OpenEU’s Consortium
- 4. Our vision Ourmission 01 Establish a learner- centred, inclusive, digital and green open university with a European scope 02 Contribute to the digital transformation of Higher Education Institutions
- 5. Tackling 3 challenges ofHE in Europe Open to all learners OpenEU student body LIFELONG LEARNING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF HE INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE HE
- 6. 8 open & distance Universities 2on-site Universities OpenEU’s members
- 7. Professional GPS: avirtual career orientation system ● Why a Professional GPS? Choice = paralysis? ○ As program offerings become + modularized and pathways become more personalized more → choice ○ While choice seems good, abundant evidence shows that choice may lead to decision paralysis. ○ Evidence indicates that most people, particularly those below 35, would appreciate career orientation.
- 8. The GPS: avirtual career orientation system Have you used orientation services? No, I havent´t Yes, I have Source: National Survey of training needs (2023)- Spain – adults 25-34 No, but I have looked for it
- 9. Why a profesionalGPS? (2): Language disconect ● Translate education language to labor market language Education speaks about programs and learning outcomes. Labor markets talk about occupations and skills. To promote employability and program relevance it is necessary to breach this gap.
- 10. What does Professional GPSdo? ● Is a virtual orientation tool that: ○ Helps learners understand how to communicate their achievements and to understand what skills they will need in their chosen occupation or role. ○ Provides labor market and program information to improve education and career decisions. ○ More than 3000 users after launching it two months ago, at UOC.
- 11. Many interoperability challenges ● Toprovide labor market and program data for three countries, the tool needs: ○ A common portfolio language (learning outcomes and career opportunities) for 3 countries. ○ A common labor market language (Skills & occupations) for 3 countries ○ Portfolio learning outcomes and career opportunities matched to a common skills and occupation (LM) language ○ Concurrent use of two skills ontologies: ESCO & Lightcast → Need interoperability between them.
- 12. Interoperability challenges A common portafolio language(learning outcomes, career opportunities) + Rules for recognition and stackability of courses + common standards A correspondence between portafolio data & LM data A common LM language (skills, occupations) Integrated in a database
- 13. Our choices I amnot aware of a common language for learning outcomes & career opportunities AI-assisted Homogeneization All terms in portfolio data will be matched to ESCO/Lightcast LM Ontologies Use both ESCO & Lightcast ONTOLOGIES
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- 21. Next steps (front) •Add data granularity (more occupations, more skills) • Continue improving user experience • Create reskilling journey • Matching portfolio data to skills data • Program Recommender system
- 22. Next steps (back) •Building joint portfolio • Building a machine readable database of learning outcomes and career opportunities across OPEN EU portfolio • AI-assisted matching of education variables to occupations and skills. • Matching skills gaps to programs.
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Editor's Notes
- #3 These were the 10 beneficiaries of the project funded by the EC to establish the alliance but the OpenEU consortium is much bigger and also counts with other well-known members of this audience: EADTU itself is an Associated Partner of the alliance, together with the Open UK and FIED (France) - (no need say but just for you to know, FIED stands for Fédération Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement à Distance and it’s the association grouping the French universities that deliver online courses and programmes). Together with this 3 EADTU members, the consortium counts also with other 3 on-site universities in Eastern Europe, other 2 university associations and 8 non-academic partners that will help us to bridge the gap between university and industry and society. Currently, no other partners are expected to be incorporated in the consortium. Now is time to build the alliance and the joint initiative. This possibility will be open in the years to come.
- #4 (Left) As an alliance, we envision to establish the ground for a pan-European Open University, although we do know that this is a long-term vision that will not be accomplished in 4 years (the current funding period). (Right) As part of the EUI, our aim is also to reinforce the European strategy for universities as well as the other alliances in place, by: - bringing our digital knowledge applied to education to contribute to a more robust, modern, inclusive and greener higher education system, - reclaiming lifelong learning as an intrinsic part of education at University - broadening the diversity of the European HE student body - giving access to HE to anyone, anywhere, even living far away from a University, ie people living in rural areas in Europe - widening the possibilities of internationalisation at universities and the opportunities for all students to benefit from an international experience. All thanks to current technologies. As a summary, we are bringing all the knowledge and expertise we have been developing at open and distance universities for decades to the EUI and the other universities part of the other 63 alliances.
- #6 To make the OpenEU vision a reality, the alliance sums the knowledge, expertise and teams of 10 universities from 9 different countries across Europe. Not all members are open universities because not all countries in Europe chose the model of an open or distance university to broaden the access to HE to everybody. This is the case in Eastern Europe, at least for the moment. But more and more universities are integrating digital technologies to improve their education offer and options. This is the case of Daugavpils university in Latvia and Verliko Tarnovo University in Bulgaria. (next slide)