Multi Campus Open Educational

Resources: the case of OER-HE

Frederik Truyen, Kees-Jan Van Dorp, Ben Janssen, Jose Rivera, Roger Griset, Ann Kuppens

OpenEd Barcelona, November 2010

Partners OER-HE

Good reasons for OER

• Widening Participation and LLL

• Internationalization

• Profiling & Mainstreaming

• Reaching out to stakeholders

• Quality control / Cost control

• Learning in the Digital Age

Workpackage on Multicampus

• 3 Institutions with very different approach

Network Open Polytechnic

Virtual Campus

University Association

Motives

• Pedagogical InnovationNetwork Open Polytechnic

• Course production cost efficiencyUOC

• Regional impact & optimizationLeuven

Pedagogical models

• New methods for teaching professionals with a higher success rate (lifelong learning)

• Pedagogical innovation through new learning practices in a blended context to facilitate LLL

• digital learning environments

• F2F learning, e-coaching and e-portfolio

• Learning at the workplace

Pedagogical models

• From Guided Independent Learning to the Integral Learning Environment

• Shared multi campus courses

• Integration with Learning grid

• competence-driven and inquiry-based learning

Pedagogical models• From ODL to true regional Virtual

Campus

• Virtual connection of campuses throughout Catalunya

• OER for cost-effectiveness

• importance of original material creation

Role of OER• Offer solutions in

the three different cases

• Participation in OCWC

• Flexibility of Creative Commons Licensing

OER @ NOP• Learning materials will consist of books,

papers, software, supplementary reading, planning aides, exercises, assignments, cases, etc.

• Al new materials developed will be published as Open Educational Materials under CC-license and will be updated yearly by teams from participating institutions

• Costs of OER are integral part of the business model and business case of NOP

OER @ K.U.Leuven

• K.U.Leuven branded Open Course series involving high impact research fields that are relevant to broader audiences and stakeholder groups

• Al courses will be published as Open Educational Materials under CC-license

• Will be run as an Education innovation project with structural support

OER @ UOC

• High quality materials in XML with multiformat outputs (PDF; HTML; ePub; Mobipocket and audio/videobook)

• Part will be/ are published under CC license model

• Using standard investment budgets for course creation

Thank you!