OPAL on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/opal2010 Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, University Duisburg-Essen

Co-financed through EU

Will learning improve when resources are available?

UNESCO OER Discussion 23—30 OCT 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamk/587941395/

The OER story

Initiatives (Stacey 2010) MIT OpenCourseware Rice University Connexions UK Open University’s Open

Learn Carnegie Mellon University

Open Learning Initiative Commonwealth of

Learning Teachers Without Borders Yale University Open Yale

Courses Monterey Institute for

Technology and Education Institute for the Study of

Knowledge Management in Education 

BCcampus OER (Canada) Southern Regional

Education Board SCORE (US)

AEShareNet & Education Network Australia (edna) (Australia)

OERNZ (New Zealand) JISC JORUM & JISC OER (UK) Wikiwijs (Netherlands) Open High School of Utah

(US) Utah State Wide OCW (US)

Phase 1: OER

Phase 2: OEP• Builds on OER• Goes beyond access into open learning architectures

• Focuss: learning as construction + sharing

• Quality improvement through external validation

• Change of educational cultures• OER as value proposition for Institutions

OER and OEP: Provocation?

Open Educational Pratices• Learning Resources• Pedagogies • Learning paths• Learning Contexts

(allow autonomy)• Learning Opportunties• Objectives, Goals and

Aims (LLL agenda)• Co-Creation of

knowlegde

Openess?

Changing Cultures

Open Educational Quality InitiativeThe current focus in OER Initiatives is mainly on building more access to digital content

Too little consideration is given to how this will support educational practices, promote quality and innovation in teaching and learning.

Open Educational Quality Initiative

UNESCO, International Council for Distance Education, European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning, Open University, UK, Aalto University,

Finland, University Catolica Lisbon, Portugal, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

+Consultative Group for Open Educational

Practices

OPAL Laboratorywww.oer-quality.org

GuidelinesMaturity Model

OPAL Champions OPAL Good Practices Rep.

OPAL Award(2011)

60 case StudiesCan be obtained here…Screenshot from Cloudworks

60 OER/ OEP Case Studies

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2085

Launching the OPAL ToolsUnderstandin

g OEPVision & Strategy

Implementing OEP

Open Educational Practices

OEP Diffusion

OEP Governance Community

Further information Ulf-Daniel Ehlersulf.ehlers@web.de

Thank you for your attention!www.oer-quality.org