OpenU.nl Fred de Vries, Open University of the Netherlands

www.OpenU.nlFred de Vries, Open University of the Netherlands

OpenU

• Automatic Metadata Framework• Facilitate ‘learning

in communities’

• Using OER; repositories, Youtube, iTunes U

• Mobile learning

OpenU

OpenU

• A platform for ‘self-organized learning’ , courses etc.– Personal digital study and work environment– Integrate social networking– Portal for subject domains / faculties (Bachelor, Masters,

PhD)

• OER, or partly free, in different formats (incl mobile)• Changing the business of the University: not selling

courses, diversifying depending on the needs of LLL– Free– Pay for services; tutoring, examination etc.