Globalizing OpenupEd Explorative Leadership Workshop Fred Mulder Abel Caine UNESCO/ICDE Chair in OER at OUNL UNESCO / Paris (former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010) Programme Specialist in OER Chair EADTU’s OpenupEd Initiative 1 ACDE/UNESCO/EADTU Workshop@ACDE Conference 7 June 2014 Victoria Falls / Zimbabwe
Presentation of the Globalizing OpenupEd Project Sat 7th June, 2014 within the 2014 ACDE Annual Conference, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
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Globalizing OpenupEdExplorative Leadership
Workshop
Fred Mulder Abel CaineUNESCO/ICDE Chair in OER at OUNL UNESCO / Paris(former Rector OUNL 2000 – 2010) Programme Specialist in OER
Chair EADTU’s OpenupEd Initiative
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ACDE/UNESCO/EADTUWorkshop@ACDE Conference
7 June 2014Victoria Falls / Zimbabwe
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Program& Goal
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Program1 Welcome and main goal of the Workshop
(ACDE President)
2 Intro: Why OpenupEd and why Globalization?
OER, MOOCs, and Open(ing up) Education as global movements
(Fred Mulder & Abel Caine)
3 Towards a vision and way forward for Africa with MOOCs (and OER)
(Director ACDE Database)
4 OpenupEd MOOCs in Europe: characteristics and state of play
(Fred Mulder)
5 Vision behind and opportunities for Globalizing OpenupEd
(Abel Caine)
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Program, continued …6 Africa on the move with MOOCs, a few examples
(to be chosen from: OUT, UNISA, NOUN, AVU, OUS, ZOU)
7 Globalizing OpenupEd in Africa and a role for ACDE?
(Discussion moderated by ACDE President & Fred Mulder)
8 From Workshop to Work plan
(Wrap-up moderated by Abel Caine)
9 Closing
(Fred Mulder / Primrose Kurasha)
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GoalReflect on the need and urgency of a
strategic response to the global MOOCs movementfrom the global OUs community and institutional networks
Explore the opportunities of such a special flavourin the global MOOCs movement through a sub-Saharan
initiative linked to the European OpenupEd MOOCs initiativeand to similar moves in other regions (‘Globalizing OpenupEd’)
Give guidance to a Work plan towards establishingyour own flavoured and profiled OpenupEd alike,
to be developed in the follow-up of the Workshop by a team ofkey actors from different African OUs under the ACDE leadership
OpenupEd coursesAround 40 at the start (now around 175)
Wide variety in subjects and level
12 Languages
Scheduled or self-paced
20 to 200 hours of study
Recognition options:certificates of completion/participation, or badges,or paid for formal credit / ECTS (>100 courses)
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OpenupEd common featuresOpenness to learners (in OUs tradition)
Digital openness (e.g. OER-based)
Learner-centred approach
Independent learning
Media-supported interaction
Recognition options
Quality focus
Spectrum of diversity
Not meant to be a strict orderbut rather to give general guidance
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OpenupEd, a decentralized model …Institutions themselves are leading
OpenupEd central communication portal,a referatory to the institutional platforms
Driven by service to learners & society(rather than by revenue)
Positioned in the public domain (not-for-profit)(rather than the private sector)
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… but centralized for qualityBranding: commonality in our eight features
(contributing to opening up education)
OpenupEd quality label requirement(launched Feb 2014 – CC licensed)
Continuous monitoring
Research and evaluation(common surveys; longitudinal)
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OpenupEd: benefits for partnersStrong and distinctive quality brand
Collective exposure beyond national borders
Visibility and marketing potential
Opportunity to join cross-national projects with external funding
Opportunity to engage with the expertise and experience in the OpenupEd partnership: (i) development of MOOCs (ii) operate on a partner’s platform (iii) institutional evaluation & monitoring
Annual state-of-the-art meetings (in association’s conferences)
Explore further extension of ‘opening up education’ at institution
Globally linked with similar partnerships in other regions