oeb12: opencourseware in europe

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OpenCourseWare in EuropeHow to Make Use of Its Full Potential

for Virtual Mobility29 November 2012

Willem van Valkenburg


Please attribute Willem van Valkenburg – OpenCourseWare Europe

http://opencourseware.eu


Willem van Valkenburg

Projectleader TU Delft OpenCourseWare

Assistant to the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium

Projectleader EU-project OCW in the European HE context

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Agenda

• Introduction• Objectives• Results• Future plans• Questions


Introduction


OpenCourseWare in Europe

• Situation in Europe:• Many different countries• Already have the brick-and-mortar universities• We educate students for more than 2000 years• Very conservative in regards to education• Universities face budget cuts due to the eurocrisis

• Consequences:• Europe is lacking behind• Eurocrisis gives opportunity to change


OpenCourseWare in Europe

How to make use of its full potential for virtual mobility


Partners


Objectives

Facilitate virtual mobility• Create of preconditions for a strong European

OCW-framework• closer cooperation between European

institutes• mutual use of material and even joint degrees• enhance quality and increase the usage of

online courses


Phases

• Pedagogic and cultural issues

• Models for sustainable cooperation between HEI on OCW

• Educational innovation with OCW

• Comparing and assessing national policies and the role of governments

Phase 1Research

• Workshops for dissimination and input of experts

• Final results, based upon research and the outcomes of the workshops.

• Results: publications end 2013 through different channels cited by major organizations active in the field of OER.

Phase 2Workshops

Phase 3Final

Reports• Foundation for a

European branch of the OCWC has been initiated towards the end of 2013.

Phase 4OCWC Europe


Research deliverables

• Analyses of existing research and best practices

• Models for sustainable cooperation between HEI on OCW

• Student Mobility Handbook • Comparing and assessing national policies

and the role governments– Combined with other initiatives


Results

1. Survey to identify successful practices 2. Analyses of current open license practices in

Europe3. Educational innovations with OCW, in

particular in the context of (virtual) student mobility

4. Comparing and assessing national policies and governmental roles


1. Survey HEI and organizations

• The aim was to identify successful practices for implementation and use of OCW/OER in HE and to investigate how OCW/OER could facilitate student virtual mobility.


Survey HEI and organizations

• A survey has been done by leaders of OER initiatives from all around the world.Responses from 31 Higher Education Institutions

and organizations from 14 different countries.Majority of respondents (81%) defined initiatives

at their Institutions as OpenCourseWare (OCW) with the remaining 19% contextualizing their projects within the broader spectrum of Open Educational Resources (OER).


Results


Use of OER/OCW


2. Open Licensing in Europe

• There is a EU Directive on Copyright, but each country implemented differently

• The exemption for education use is part of the country law

Source:www.slideshare.net/ocweu/barcelona-workshop-copyright-limitations-and-exceptions-for-education-in-the-eu

http://www.slideshare.net/ocweu/barcelona-workshop-copyright-limitations-and-exceptions-for-education-in-the-eu




Conclusion

• Fragmented, insufficient, non-uniform solutions

• Online teaching is discriminated • Lack of an international uniform rules

aggravated by the “territoriality” of copyright• Education is a strong public interest

Exceptions and limitations should be a matter of strict public policy (addressed by the law): Mandatory limitations!?


Open Content Licensing

• 64 OCWC member websites inspected• Conclusion: We are really bad at this– Lack of license on the home page– Different license notices– Link to different licenses– License depends the platform you use to access

the content– Not clear how is the copyright owner

CC BY Ignasi Labastida:http://www.slideshare.net/ocweu/workshop-barcelona-reports-on-legal-issues

http://www.slideshare.net/ocweu/workshop-barcelona-reports-on-legal-issues




4. Open Policy

• UNESCO and OECD did a survey• OER Policy Registry:

wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry• 66 open policies available• Please submit yours

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry


Future Plans

• Scenarios for the promotion of student virtual mobility via OCW

• Guidelines and recommendations for successful implementation of OCW

• Guidelines for quality and accreditation • Case studies library featuring effective open

policies• Workshops on Open Policy


Workshop and presentations

• Open Education Week 11 – 15 March 2013– Different webinars

• OCWC Global Conference 8 – 10 May 2013– Presentation legal and quality guidelines– Presentation OER Policies

• Workshops June 2013– Workshop on the organisational implementation

of scenarios of virtual mobility– Workshop on student mobility handbook


Call for Partners

Academic Network for STEM Courses• STEM = Science Technology

Engineering & Math• 25 partners from 25 countries in Europe• Deadline January 2013• Grant to maximum of k€ 600• TU Delft will coordinate

• More information: http://opencourseware.eu/STEM

http://opencourseware.eu/STEM


Partners• Delft University of Technology• Universidad Politécnica Madrid• Universitat de Barcelona• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven• Université de Lyon, VetAgro Sup• OpenCourseWare Consortium• Creative Commons

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