openmed compendium presentation oed morocco

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Compendium brought together and edited by:

Katherine Wimpenny Sarah Merry Gemma Tombs Daniel Villar-Onrubia

Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University, UK


Acknowledgements

• Contributing Individuals• Sana El Harbi, UNESCO Chair in OER, Universite de

Sousse, Tunisia• Marcello Scalisi, Director, UNIMED• Cristina Stefanelli, OpenMed Project Manager, UNIMED• DMLL Research Team

• Contributing Institutions


The compendium delineates the key concepts and definitions associated with open education, providing a clear and succinct introduction for those new to the area. OpenMed uses the 2012 UNESCO definition of OER:

“teaching, learning and research materials inany medium, digital or otherwise, that reside inthe public domain or have been released under

an open license that permits no–cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no

or limited restrictions”


Range of Open Educational Practices


The Compendium includes:

• A review of Open Educational Practices (OEP)• Webometric analysis• Partner country reports• A survey outlining the level of participation in OEP within the

partner institutions • Eleven case studies globally and in the S-M region in particular• Interviews with experts about OEP and OER (state of the art)

To inform the subsequent phases and workpackages of the project and to provide inspiration and transferability


ExpertsTel Amiel, UNESCO Chair in OER at UNICAMP and Researcher at NIED/UNICAMP, Brazil;

Maha Bali, Center for Learning & Teaching at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt;

Daniel Burgos, UNESCO Chair on eLearning at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), Spain;

Cristóbal Cobo, Director of the Center for Research, Ceibal Foundation, Uruguay;

Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor at the University of Montreal, Canada;

Sana El Harbi, UNESCO Chair in OER, Université de Sousse, Tunisia

Rory McGreal, UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in OER

Teresa McKinnon, Principal Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick, UK;

Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Senior Project Manager with Creative Commons, US;

Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project

Shireen Yacoub, Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development, Jordan

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Expert Interviews

• Short (3 - 5min) awareness-raising tools for inclusion in the Compendium and as video content to be released through the OpenMed website and Youtube• Questions included:

1. What is your involvement in OE?;2. Please identify an OE initiative or idea you find interesting and

explain why (you might focus on any specific elements of interest); and

3. What would be your top tips or recommendations to educators and HE decision makers in the S-M region for facilitating the adoption of OEP?


Plateforme Pédagogique (Learning platform, Morocco)

Discover Palestine (MOOC platform, Palestine)

UC@MOOC (MOOCs platform, Morocco)

NAFHAM (teachers’ platform, Egypt)

EDRAAK (MOOCs platform, Jordan)

Included Case studies


OER Strategy University South Africa (UNISA)

REDES (Open acces journal, Spain)

Open Review Project (reviews OER research, US)

OER Commons Arabic (learning repository, Egypt)

Open Humanities Press (open access publishing, UK)

JORUM (repository, UK)

Included Case studies


UC@MOOC This initiative is a platform which provides online access to learning materials for students at Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) in Morocco. It was established in order to resolve the problem of over-large classes, and contains a variety of course materials in the form of podcasts, videos and other resources. The case study outlines the background to the initiative, and provides some statistical details of the courses hosted on the platform. There is also some discussion of the importance of using a variety of pedagogies in order to support the high numbers of students.


Plateforme Pédagogique – Centre E-Learning UIZThis initiative provides open online education via two Moodle e-learning platforms in a variety of different disciplines. There are 100 courses, with over 21,000 students. The case study focuses on the value of teachers and lecturers in computing and related subjects, outlining the courses provided and the guidance provided for publishing course materials online.


• What do the case studies provide insight into?• Processes, procedures, technological choices

• How do issues of context create opportunities & challenges?• Clear there is not one clear way of doing things to

guarantee success


Key Recommendations

Five key themes are proposed in order to provide a reference of work for OER and OEP.

1. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Implementation2. Supporting Staff in Using and Integrating Open Practices and

Open Resources3. Collaborative Creation in Communities of Practice4. Enhancing the Quality of Student Learning 5. Releasing Content Under Open licences


Recommendations Example points of note

Top-Down and Bottom-up Implementation

Investment in infrastructure will ease process development and ways to transition materials and programmes.

Supporting Staff in Using and Integrating OEP /OER

Incentives are required to engage staff .Staff need to be supported to problem-solve ways to integrate OER with their official academic learning resources

Collaborative Creation in COP The potential of Open Education to have greater impact can be realized when a consortium of institutions collaborate together rather than something happening within just one institution


Recommendations Example points of note

Enhancing quality of student learning

OER can support anytime, anywhere learning, offering new communication models and possibilities between teachers and students OEP should engage students as co-creators

Releasing content under open licences

Those providing OER should review their licensing approach and work with their institutions, where possible, to formulate guide- lines for OER creators


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