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The Future OER Ecosystem - On Building a Community for OER in Europe
The Encore+ project, funded by the European Commission, aims to promote the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Europe by building a coordinated ecosystem that bridges academia and business. It focuses on enhancing collaboration, sharing innovative practices, and addressing barriers to OER adoption through various thematic strands including innovation, technology, policy, and quality. The initiative seeks to create a supportive environment for stakeholders by providing access to quality resources and fostering a culture of open education and collaboration.
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- 1. This project hasbeen funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license except where otherwise noted. The future OER Ecosystem - On building a community for OER in Europe 24th May, 2022 Dr. Robert Farrow, The Open University (UK) Anaïs Malbrand, ICDE (Norway) Fiona Schmidbauer, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
- 2. Welcome and Housekeeping Purposeof this workshop Inclusion in ENCORE+ research Code of Conduct https://connect.oeglobal.org/uploads/short- url/flBxQH52D8vb9Xs9O3vD2ie4DGp.pdf
- 3. Introduction to ENCORE+ EuropeanNetwork for Catalysing Open Resources in Education https://encoreproject.eu/
- 4. ENCORE+ ENCORE+ is aKnowledge Alliance project funded by the European Commission under Erasmus+ Supporting the uptake of open education resources (OER) Catalysing and sharing innovative practice across education and business Developing stakeholder communities for knowledge exchange 4
- 5. 5 Partners ● International Councilfor Distance Education (Norway) ● Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (Germany) ● The Open University (UK) ● Universidad Internacional De La Rioja (Spain) ● Knowledge 4 All Foundation (UK) ● Joubel (Norway) ● Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Italy) ● Instructure Global (UK) ● Dublin City University (Ireland)
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- 7. OER in Europe ●OER World Map includes details of 1400+ organisations, 900+ services, 500+ projects and 300+ policies in support of OER ● However, activity is typically uncoordinated, and happens in clusters (national/regional, disciplinary, technological, etc.) ● Limited interactions between academia, public and private sectors ● Covid-19 has forced greater use of online learning and need for resources which can be met by OER 7
- 8. ENCORE+ Background andRationale ● The European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+) responds to the priorities of opening up and modernising the European education and training sector through a coordinated European OER ecosystem ● ENCORE+ brings together meaningful and focused human networks; technological solutions for sharing and discovering OER; policy reviews; quality criteria; and will generate business models which draw on the affordances of OER to support innovation ● ENCORE+ supports uptake of OER through business and academia by formulating value propositions for using OER in education, training and business 8
- 9. 9 ENCORE+ Ecosystem ENCORE+ willfunction as a network catalyst for a socio-technical ecosystem. That means that ENCORE+’s main mission will be to amplify existing OER initiatives, projects, platforms and networks by integrating them across the four thematic Circle strands and three crosscutting integration events.
- 10. Theme: Innovation andBusiness Models ● What are the main enablers/barriers for innovation with OER? ● Should we focus on core provision or radically rethinking markets? ● What does an innovation focused OER culture look like? ● What do future business models look like? What do we need to consider? ○ Externally funded (philanthropy, sponsorship, governmental) ○ Internally funded (institutional programes, redirection of funding) ○ Community funded (services, membership model, platformisation) ○ Service models (data exploitation, dual-mode HEIs, freemium, segmentation) 10
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- 12. Theme: Technology ● Howcan we establish the right kind of interfacing and protocols? ● What can artificial intelligence approaches do for OER / OEP? ● How can technology support co-creation and sharing of content? ● Facilitating the sharing of content across platforms ● Open-source API infrastructures for sharing content, metadata, multimedia, learning pathways, etc. 12
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- 14. Theme: Policies andPractices ● How is your organisation engaging with open educational practices? ● Why is your organisation engaging with open educational practices? ● Does your organisation have OER/Open Education policy? If yes give some details, if no why do you think this is? ● What are the main barriers to large scale adoption of open educational practices? ● What are the key enablers to large scale adoption of open educational practices? ● What business models for open educational practices do you think will evolve in the future? 14
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- 16. Theme: Quality ● Howshould we define OER quality? (content, ‘openness’, user-friendliness, &c.) ● Harmonization / Developing a common European framework ● Establishing reliable and realistic systems of peer review / quality assurance ● Better user engagement by OER repositories ● Achieving an interoperable European metadata and search engine strategy 16
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- 18. Theme: Stakeholders &their needs 18 Education HEI leaders, decision makers Learners (formal/informal) Educators Libraries/Collections/Repositories Instructional Designers / Technologists Copyright/Data Officers Business Course providers Ed Tech companies Service providers Workers Infrastructure providers Publishers Policymakers Educational authorities Ministries Public bodies Quality assurance agencies Charities / NGOs (macro/micro) Funders/Philanthropy
- 19. 19 ENCORE+ Ecosystem ENCORE+ willfunction as a network catalyst for a socio-technical ecosystem. That means that ENCORE+’s main mission will be to amplify existing OER initiatives, projects, platforms and networks by integrating them across the four thematic Circle strands and three crosscutting integration events.
- 20. ENCORE+ Ecosystem Coordination ● Coordinationof efforts in producing, sharing, using & reusing OER ● Improved collaboration, connection and user-friendliness among repositories ● Interconnected OER repositories, user communities, institutions, companies ● Sharing and development of quality OER across borders, languages and cultures ● Exchanging perspectives and information about effective innovation in practice ● Connecting and fostering knowledge exchange across HE and business 20
- 21. ENCORE+ Ecosystem Provision ● Enhancedtraining opportunities in formal and informal learning settings ● Generalised access to quality OERs and better support for language and culture adaptation ● Local companies (especially SMEs) access to high quality free training resources 21
- 22. ENCORE+ Ecosystem Culture ● Promotionof open educational practices (using OER and participatory technologies to facilitate collaboration, innovation and flexible learning) ● Promoting a culture of self-empowerment, innovation and entrepreneurship ● Increasing inclusiveness of higher education institutions through effective strategies for open education ● Trust for OER in teacher and learner communities & institutional leaders 22
- 23. ENCORE+ Ecosystem Catalysation ● Increasedavailability of quality OER ● Strengthened innovation around OER both in universities and enterprises ● Implementation of existing technical and quality standards for OER at scale ● Opportunities for local entrepreneurs, companies and Ed Tech companies to innovate through OER ● Demonstrating the innovation potential of OER for HR development in companies ● Stimulating innovation in learning and teaching through the uptake of quality OER 23
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- 26. Supporting ENCORE+ ● Invite5 personal contacts to join ENCORE+ Circles ● Subscribe to project channels (newsletter, blog) ● Share your experiences and inspiration! 26
- 27. Project partners: Contacts Robert Farrow,The Open University (UK) [email protected] / @philosopher1978 Website For further and updated information about this project please see: www.encoreproject.eu [email protected]