Introduction OpenCourseWare Europe for Madrid workshop by Willem van Valkenburg on 11th of June 2013

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OpenCourseWare in Europe
How to Make Use of Its Full Potential
for Virtual Mobility
11 June 2013
Willem van Valkenburg
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Please attribute
Willem van Valkenburg – OpenCourseWare Europe
http://opencourseware.eu

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Willem van Valkenburg
Coordinator
TU Delft Open Education Team
Board member of the
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Projectleader EU-project
OCW in the European HE context
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Agenda
• Introduction
• What is Open…
• Why Open Education
• OpenCourseWare
• Europe?

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Why Open Education Matters
CC-BY Blink Tower: http://vimeo.com/43401199

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What are Open Educational Resources?
• Shared educational materials
• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and
modification
• Available to anyone via the internet (and often
other means)
David Wiley 4R’s:
Reuse – copy verbatim
Redistribute – share with others
Revise – adapt and edit
Remix – combine with others

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What is Open Education?
• Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:

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Why be Open? Global Benefits
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
Washington’s
Open Course Library
A collection of openly
licensed (CC-BY)
educational materials for
81 high-enrollment college
courses
a worldwide community of
hundreds of institutions
committed to advancing
OpenCourseWare and its
impact on global education.
>20k courses published
TU Delft content is used at
ITB Bandung to educate
students about water
Watermanagement

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to help solve social problems through
expansion of access to education. It does
this by leveraging its sources of expert
opinion, its global network and its position
as the principal voice of open education.
Our mission

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• ~280 members
• ~200 live OCW sites
• ~20,000 courses
http://www.ocwconsortium.org

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OpenCourseWare in Europe?

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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
• Euro crisis gives opportunity to change

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OpenCourseWare in Europe
How to make use of its full potential for virtual mobility

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Partners

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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

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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 1
Research
• 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 2
Workshops
Phase 3
Final
Reports
• Foundation for a
European branch
of the OCWC has
been initiated
towards the end of
2013.
Phase 4
OCWC
Europe

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Launch of OCW Europe
4 and 5 December
Lyon, France

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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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