2020 Open Education Week

This year’s EDEN Open Education Week was a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal was to raise awareness for the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide, the free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now.

With the success of the previous years’ Open Education Weeks in the background, EDEN once again organised a very successful online series of events this March. The high online attendance and exceptional webinar sessions were truly inspiring to experience.

EDEN is honoured to announce that this year 6 high quality webinars took place with distinguished speakers and 1086 registered participants. The participants came from 50 different countries including 22 countries from outside Europe, from United States to China, from Brazil to India, demonstrating a wide geographical coverage and a substantial outreach.

Altogether 32 facilitators contributed to the successful implementation of the ambitious programme. EDEN  would like to thank the valuable contribution of the facilitators and trusts that the initiative contributed to the European dialogue about the state and the future of Open Education.

All participants and facilitators received EDEN open badges for their contribution. Presenters’ slides can be viewed on EDEN’s SlideShare page. The recordings of the webinars can be viewed below.

EDEN is looking forward to your participation at our upcoming webinars.

During the Open Education Week, EDEN offered the following online events:

 

OER and Open Pedagogies – Best Practices

Monday, 2 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Sandra Kučina Softić, EDEN President, SRCE

Description:

Aim of this webinar is to show examples of good practice of use of Open Education Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. Open Education Resources and Open Education Movement are high on the agenda in EU but also worldwide, yet teachers and educators are struggling when talking about OER, how to use them or to make their own materials open. Another issue is how to integrate OER in teaching in the learning process. Open pedagogy is a set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical when using OER. Open education practice encompasses teaching techniques and academic practices that draw on open technologies, pedagogical approaches and open educational resources to facilitate collaborative and flexible learning. Join us and get ideas on how you can implement OER in your teaching and learning.

Speakers:

  • Gema Santos
    Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
  • Airina Volungeviciene
    Vytautas Magnus University, EDEN Senior Fellow
  • Fabio Nascimbeni
    Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, EDEN Fellow
  • Christothea Herodotou
    Associate Professor, Open University UK
  • Annelies Calmeyn
    Educational Technology Consultant
    KULeuven, Educta

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Open Education Recognition and Credentials

Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 12:00 CET

Moderator: Deborah Arnold, AUNEGe, EDEN Senior Fellow

Description:

For flexible, open and online education to become reality, it is vital to increase trust in recognition and credentials through robust and reliable solutions. In Europe, we already have standards and tools that can be used to transparently describe qualifications. The European Qualifications Framework gives an indication of the level of various qualifications; the European Diploma Supplement provides a standardised template to give additional information about a degree; the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) allows for individual learning units to be described in terms of knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy; the European Skill, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) database provides a standard terminology. However, while theoretically these same tools could be used to describe virtual mobility and open education, there is a long way to go until open education modules are treated the same way as their traditional counterparts.

This webinar will provide a deeper analysis of this challenge and introduce a few European initiatives, such as the new EuropassMicroHEECCOE and more, that aim to facilitate the recognition of open, online and flexible higher education and increase trust in technology-enabled credentials among students, higher education institutions (HEIs) and employers.

Speakers:

  • Deborah Arnold
    National and International Projects Coordinator, AUNEGe, France
  • Anthony F. Camilleri
    Director at Knowledge Innovation Centre, Malta
  • Ildiko Mazar
    Research & Development Associate, Knowledge Innovation Centre, Malta
  • Chiara Carlino
    Consultant, Cineca, Italy
  • Piet Henderikx
    Senior Executive Advisor at EADTU

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Open Education Technologies

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Diana Andone ,EDEN Vice-president, PUT

Description:

The world is changing towards a more inclusive and interconnected global marketplace, where technology is playing an intensive role. Education actively responds to these changes by including more and more open education principles, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. Those institutions that enhance their traditional teaching environments with best digital educational technologies will give their students, in turn, the best chances to succeed. Students who have access to digital learning environments at their educational institutions will have increased skills and knowledge to achieve and they will become Open lifelong learning students. There exists a rich ecosystem of open educational technologies (OET) created by educational, open source, and commercial organizations around the world. Open Educational Technologies (Open EdTech) is a diverse group of organisations, open source projects, and individuals advocating for the use of open technologies, content, and standards in education. The first meeting was at the Open Edtech Conference in Barcelona, November 21-22, 2019, where the Barcelona Blueprint was initiated. This webinar intends to discuss its guiding principles but also to present some recent

Speakers:

  • Martin Dougiamas
    CEO, Moodle, Australia
    Open Educational Technologies and the Barcelona Blueprint
  • Svein-Tore Griff With
    Founder of H5P, Norway
    Rich, interactive OER with H5P
  • Alfredo Soeiro
    EDEN Executive Committee member, Deputy Chair of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee, EDEN Senior Fellow,
    University of Porto, Portugal
  • Carmen Holotescu
    Professor, Ioan Slavici University Timisoara, Romania
    European perspectives on Blockchain in Education
  • Doug Belshaw
    MoodleNet Product Manager, Moodle
    MoodleNet for educators

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Open Education for Civil Engagement and Democracy

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 15:00 CET

Moderator: Timothy Read, UNED, EDEN Vice-president

Description:

Open education has a key role to play in potentiating social inclusion. As noted by the European Commission for education in general (but is particularly relevant for open education) it helps to establish common values key to such inclusion: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, respect for human rights, the rights of minorities. However, as also noted, it can be seen in most member states that there are challenges to such inclusion, namely: populism, xenophobia, divisive nationalism, discrimination, misinformation, and radicalization (that can lead to violent extremism).

In order to counter these problems, the promotion of citizenship education has been pursued over a period of years. However, the open educational content and practices necessary to teach the different paradigms of active citizenship are arguably still difficult to find. The need to respect cultural diversity is important in the educational process since there isn’t just one “model citizen”. We need, therefore, to teach and support students, especially the younger generations, to appreciate the importance of active citizenship and achieve their participative role in society as a whole. In this webinar different aspects and examples of the role of open educational resources and practices for citizenship education will be considered and how they can be potentiated in the future.

Speakers:

  • Alfredo Soeiro
    EDEN Executive Committee member, Deputy Chair of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee, EDEN Senior Fellow,
    University of Porto, Portugal
  • Diana Andone
    EDEN Vice-president, PUT
  • Javiera Atenas
    Open Education Policy Lab, Open Education Working Group and Research at University of Barcelona
  • Beatriz Sedano
    Research Associate at UNED

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Unboxing the Textbook for an Open World

Thursday, 5 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Eamon Costello, DCU

Description:

The textbook is an enduring staple of higher education, occupying a key role in formal educational settings. Practices may vary greatly in educational settings as to how the costs of textbooks are borne by students. Moreover, the role and nature of the textbook are changing rapidly in a digital world. Large, often expensive, paper books exist alongside digital versions which may include rich media and interactivity. The interactive elements of digital textbooks may also comprise assessments that can be summative or formative. Publishers may charge rental subscriptions for books which may be passed directly onto students increasing the costs of their education. Moreover, these rentals are temporary. Students do not get to “Retain” access to the learning resource – the right to retain being one of the key five Rs of Open (Wiley, 2014). How can we help unpack these issues and explore alternatives such as more open approaches? To help “unbox” the book, this panel seeks to explore students’ use (and non-use) of textbooks for learning in higher education; what alternatives might exist; and to try and envisage textbooks and educational resources in a more open future.

Speakers:

  • Eamon Costello
    Head of Open Education, National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University
  • Zoe Wake Hyde
    Assistant director and Product Manager at the Rebus Foundation
  • Aine Lynch
    Assistant Librarian, Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
  • Tom Farrelly
    Faculty member, Social Sciences, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland
  • James Brunton
    Programme Chair, Psychology, Dublin City University, Ireland
  • Samantha Trevaskis

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Microlearning and Quality for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age

Friday, 6 March 2020, 13:00 CET

Moderator: Ebba Ossiannilsson, EDEN EC, EDEN Fellow, ICDE EC, SADE

Description:

With the rise of technology, combined with the explosive growth of social media over the last decade, the concept of personalized mobile learning through bite-sized learning snippets has come to the fore. In addition, in the context of major global challenges such as globalization, digitalization and demographic change, and learning for all, there is an urgent need for a variety of learning opportunities and pathways for lifelong and life-wide learning. The concept of microlearning has been around since about 2000, but what is it and how to make learning in bite-sized form successful, attractive and effective, as it to be just right for me and learning in education, training, achievement and talent development contexts. Micro-learning offers opportunities to incorporate, integrate and personalize cost-effective and meaningful learning and training solutions for each individual in terms of personal, environmental and organizational performance improvement. During this webinar with invited experts in this field there will be opportunities to learn more about the growing field of micro-learning / bite-sized learning snippets and quality for life-ong learning.

Speakers:

  • Ebba Ossiannilsson
    EDEN EC, EDEN SIG TEL QE, EDEN NAP, EDEN Council of Fellows, ICDE EC, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, Chair, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden
  • Badrul H. Khan
    http://badrulkhan.com
  • Joseph Rene Corbeil
    Professor of Educational Technology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Maria Elena Corbeil
    Educational Technology Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Ebba Ossiannilsson
    EDEN EC, EDEN SIG TEL QE, EDEN NAP, EDEN Council of Fellows, ICDE EC, ICDE OER Advocacy Committee, Chair, Swedish Association for Distance Education, Digital Job and Skills Coalition Sweden

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