Opening Up Slovenia OCWC-Global2014, Mitja Jermol

1. Slovenia as a role model for open
education in knowledge based Europe
Mitja Jermol
Jozef Stefan Institute
Slovenia

3. • Typical education reform lasts from 5-10 years, but….

4. Continuous innovation
Knowledge creation
Learning organisations
Research and Development

5. Neuroparasitology
Quantum Biology
Exo-meteorology
Nutrigenomics
Cliodynamics
Synthetic Biology
Recombinant Memetics
Computational Social Science
Cognitive Economics
Organic Electronics Quantitative Biology
Molecular Gastronomy
Aeroecology
Data Science
Pharmacometrics
Medical Geology
Affective Science
Human Macroecology
Neuroethics
Neuroepigenetics

6. ALISA
ANGELO
ARLEO
ANIMATED AGENTS
APARSEN
APENET
APOSDLE
ARCOMEM
ARGUNAUT
ARISE
ARISTOTELE
ARROW
ASPECT
AtGentive
ATHENA
BHL-Europe
BlogForever
BRICKS
C2NET
CACAO
CALIBRATE
CALIMERA
CASPAR
CINeSPACE
COLDEX
CONTRAPUNCTUS
COOPER
COSMOS
COSPATIAL
DELOS
DERIVE
Discovery
DL.org
DPE
DynaLearn
EASAIER
eCircus
eCUTE
EdReNe EduTubePlus
E-DYNAMICS
EEBO
EEEL
EFGEGN
eLCERT
ELECT
eLEGI
ELEKTRA
ELU
eMAPPS.com
eMarCon
eMATE
EMUCAST
ENRICH
ENSURE
ENV-e-CITY
ePATENT
EPILEARN
EPOCH
ePSIPlus
ESDIN
eSDI-Net+
eTelestia
Ethno
Arc
ETHNOCLIC
E-TRACKING
EULIS EURADIN
EUROGENE
Europeana v1.0
EuropeanaConnect
EuroRegioMap
Euscreene
ViP FLaReNetGaLA
GAMA GRAPPLE
HOPE
iCAMP
iCLASS
iCOPER
idSPACE
IKUITSE
iMAESTROi-Maestro
IMAGINATION
ImREAL
INNOELEARNING
INNOVANET Intel
IntelLeo
Intergeo
INVITE
ITALES
iTEC
JEM
JUDAICA
KALEIDOSCOPE
KEEP
KOD
KP-LAB
L2C
LCCN
LeActiveMath
LEAD
LEARN
Learnbridge
LEARNINGSPACE
LEGE-WG
LEO
LiLa
LIP
LiWA
LOGOS
LT4eL
LTfLL
MACEMAGELAN
MAP
Math-Bridge
MATURE
mEducator
MELTMIMO
MEMORIES
METACAMPUS
Metafora
mGBL
MILK
MINERVAplus MIROR
MIRROR
MLFORBCI
MOBILEARN
MODELLINGSPACE
MOPLE
MultiMATCH
MULTITRAIN
NATURE-SDI plus
NEEO
NEXT-TELL
CONNECT
OAPEN
OpenScienceResources
OpenScout
Organic.Edunet
OR-WORLD
OSCAR
PALETTE
PAPYRUS
PEER
PICK
Plan4all
PLANETS
PORTAL
PrestoPRIME
PROFKNOW
PROLEARN
PROLIX
PROTAGE
QVIZ
READAL
ReMath
RENCOM RIVER DIALOGUE
ROLE
SCALE
SCAPE
SCOPE
SCY
APOSDLE
SHAMAN
SinPers
SIREN SLIM-VRT
TENCompetence
SME-Net
SMILE STELLAR
STERNA
SWAD-EUROPE
TARGET
TELELOGOS
TEL-Map
TEL-MAPARISE
TEL-ME-MOR
TELplus
TERENCE
TIMBUS
T-LEARNING
TNT
TRAIN.ME
Treble-CLEF
TRIAL-SOLUTION
TWT-U
UNFOLD
UNITE VARIAZIONI
VEMUS
VEMUST
VENUS
VIDL
V-MusT.net
WEBLABS
Wf4Ever
WORKSAFE
xDELIA
YOUNGNET

7. VideoLectures.Net
Translectures
Mediamixer Xlike
IJEPEG-UMKI / ePlatform
Open cientific evenings at University of Nova Gorica
ADRIART
Tandem
School-wide vimeo channel
Enhancing the capacity of e-learning for educational institutions
Online Presence for Learning
DEAFVOC 2
MARE
EQUAL Study
DISNET
EICL
Comenius-EduMedia-Awards
Študentski projekti iz in za industrijo
METOD
Blend.FL
ITC Euromaster
E-PRAGMATIC
SustEner
DL@WEB
ISME
Teachers in the Digital Age
Edoo
Innovative 1:1 Pedagogy
SIO
E-gradiva
iEARN
Unisvet
Munus 2
Impletum
Spletno oko
Safe.si
e-Šolska torba E-šolstvo
Razvoj naravoslovnih kompetenc
eTwinning
Mesto znanja
CALIBRATE
eMAPPS
IMAGINE
http://astra.si/ CMEPIUS
http://www.egradiva.si/
http://www.glasba.videofon.si/
http://svarog.org/

8. Fragmentary results - fragmentary research and development
Disintegration:
Cross-domain and cross-level divide
Bottom up (needs) detached from the top down (legislation)
Implementation barriers (from social to value added)
Missing critical mass: the absence of large and systemic testbeds
Limited vision of Openness
Quality of content/services

9. Personalised (learner centric) vs. Mass
Multilingual and multicultural vs. Global
Dynamic vs. Rigid
Quality vs. Quantity
Open vs. Proprietary
Sharing (social) vs. Transferring
(mechanistic)
Participative vs. Directed

10. • Based on:
• EC communication titled ‘Opening up Education’ (DG EAC, Connect), Sept 2013
• Videolectures.net success
• Open education projects at Universities
• E-education program supported by the Ministry
• Many successful elearning technology developers and providers and
• Industry lead initiative for Smart Specialisation
• Slovenia is proposing to take a lead in OpeningUpEducation initiative
set by EU by:
• Providing EU state level commitment for the programme by all stakeholders
• Offering Slovenia as a testbed to develop, test and deploy best practices

11. • Develop open educational system
• Step1: Parallel to the formal one
• Step2: Connected to the formal one
• Step3: Integrated with the formal one
• Targeting:
• Step1: National level
• Step2: SouthEast Europe
• Step3: Europe
Formaleducationsystem
Openeducationsystem

12. Open accessOpen software
Open content
Open textbook
Open badges
Open accreditation
Open licenses
Open source
MOOCs
OCWOER Open curriculum
Open Context Aware Environments
Information retrieval
Knowledge discovery
Machine learning
Language technologies
Internet of things (everything)
Interoperability models and solutions
Large scale reasoning
Cognitive systems
Self-awareness
Semantic and Context
technologies
Ubiquitous sensingMultimodal interfaces
Data collection and storage
Open Universities

13. Pre-school
School
Higher
Further
Lifelong
Formal
Informal
Infrastructure
Content
Tools and Services
Didactic, pedagogy methodology
Value added models
Incentive models
General
Learners and Teachers
Type
Learning Architecture
Research
Development
Testing
Validation and quality
Deployment

14. • Knowledge 4 All Foundation Ltd.
• Jožef Stefan Institute
• University of Maribor
• University of Primorska
• University of Ljubljana
• University of Nova Gorica
• Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Slovenia
• OS Savsko Naselje primary school, representative of the national primary schools cluster
• Vrtec Trnovo kindergarten, representative of the national kindergarten cluster
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia
• Slovenian National Post – system integrator

15. • Little big country
• Personalisation – gaining from cultural richness
• Excellent background and raised awareness
• Critical mass of advanced technology, content, projects, networks
• Needs and interests from major stakeholders
• Strategically committed

16. • Austria: Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology
• Belgium: Department of Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Croatia: Univeristy of Zadar, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, University of Rijeka
• Estonia: Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University
• France: University of Nantes, INRIA - the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
• Greece: SingularLogic SA, NTUA
• Italy: International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Interdipartimental Center of Research in Urban Planning "Alberto Calza Bini" ,
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, IAES International Academy of Environmental Sciences, Venice, Department of Mathmatics and COmputer Science,
University Udine, University of Trieste
• Germany: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Lithuania: Vilnius Business College
• Netherlands: UNESCO OER Chair, Open University Netherlands, EADTU, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
• Poland: Lublin University of Technology, University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce
• Portugal: Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, UNINOVA (Institute for the Development of New Tecnologies)
• Slovenia: Karst Research Institute, Postojna, Slovenia, British Council Slovenia, IAM - Institute and Academy of Multimedia, School centre Kranj, Slovenian institute for
Adult Education, National School of Leadership in Education, Geodetic Institute, Slovenia National Examinations centre
• Spain: Madrid Open University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat Politècnica de València
• Turkey: Department of Computer Education & Instructional Technology Middle East Technical University
• United Kingdom: The Open University UK, University College London
• United States: OpenCourseWare Consortium, Opencast Matterhorn

17. OuS Kick-off - OCWC Global 2014, 23-25 April 2014, Ljubljana
• President of republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor and UNESCO as Honorary Patrons
• Slovenian Minister for Education Jernej Pikalo as promotor of the OuS
• EC commissioner Androulla Vassiliou (Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth) as supporter of OuE
• UNESCO Chair on Open Software for OER
• Running projects
• Shared Open Universities (U, PS, IJS)
• National videolectures.net and scienceatlas.si
• RTD center for schools (OS, IJS, PS)
• RTD center for kindergardens (VT, IJS, OS)
• Mymachine (OS, IJS, U, VT)
• Slovenian Educational Network: e-textbook library (50+), teachers training (40.000)
• “OpenYota” – holistic OS solution for Open Education
• Contextual Microlearning with AI
• On-the-job competencies adaptation

18. Let’s start opening…!
http://www.k4all.org/openingupslovenia/