Webinar: Institutional Open Education and OER Policies Paul Bacsich, POERUP bit.ly/poerupmap 23 June 2014

POERUP: summary Inventory of more than 500 OER initiatives worldwide 33 country reports – most being updated 7 case studies including FutureLearn, ALISON, and OER U 3 generic policy documents: HE, FE and schools In progress: Policy documents for UK (E, W, S), Ireland, France, Netherlands, Spain, Poland – and Canada Project reports in September 2014

Why policies? Because... 1.Business planning 2.Allocation of scarce resources 3.We have them for everything else!

Policies: the levels 1.World (UNESCO,....) 2.Continental (Europe) 3.Bloc (EU) 4.Country (UK) 5.Autonomous Region (England) 6.Subregion (Borsetshire) 7.Institution (Poppleton University) 8.Department (Basketry) 9.Me! (MOOC on underwater basketweaving) As above, so below (Trismegistus, H. – n.d.)

Levels of engagement in an institution 1.Localised exploitation – of OER 2.Internal integration – of OER 3.Business process redesign – based on OER 4.Business network redesign – between HE and delivery partners 5.Business scope redefinition – unbundling? Reference?

OER in context E-learning Distance learning OER MOOCs Strategies must cohere Flexible learning

Sector actors Ministry – or ministries Funding councils Quality agencies (are they in ENQA?) Grant and/or loan scheme operators Associations of providers – and sub-sectors Unions Student associations…

UNESCO OER headings x 10 1.Foster awareness and use of OER 2.Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) 3.Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER 4.Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks 5.Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials 6.Foster strategic alliances for OER 7.Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts 8.Encourage research on OER 9.Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER 10.Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds

Opening Up Education: awareness/use Widen access to education at all levels, both formal and non-formal, in a perspective of lifelong learning (thus contributing to social inclusion, gender equity and special needs education); by the promotion and use of OER Improve cost-efficiency of teaching and learning outcomes; through greater use of OER. Improve quality of teaching and learning outcomes; through greater use of OER.

POERUP: some summary recommendations Foster innovation and cost-analysis Ensure quality review is mode-neutral Systematise APL/APEL including introducing an Open Accreditor Move from time-based to output-based measures: Bologna-bis

But how do I do it? Ideas

(Other) Sources of inspiration Projects: OPAL recommendations for institutions (old) UK: Flexible Learning; FELTAG; Wales; Scotland Institutional e-learning strategies (several new ones) MIT90s gives you the structure Benchmarking (e-learning) gives you the topics to focus on: usual suspects – strategy, staff development, IT etc Business model: that’s the hard part! – Tip: look for allies and partners