OportUnidad proyecto apoyado por la Comisión Europea (ALFA III) con el objetivo de fomentar la adopcion de practicas educativas abiertas en Latino America. http://oportunidadproject.eu

1. OportUnidad
Open educational
practices: a bottom-up
approach in Latin
America and Europe to
develop a common
Higher Education Area
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4909004716/ Info at: www.oportUnidadproject.eu

2. OportUnidad
PROJECT OportUnidad
PROGRAMME ALFA III - Lot 1: Joint Projects
DURATION 30 months (starting date: 1 Jan 2012)
PARTNERS 12 Partners
AIM Foster openness in Higher Education

3. What
are the
OER?

4. Background info: what are OER?
Open Educational Resources
“...educational materials and resources
offered freely and openly for anyone
to use and under some license to re-
mix, improve and redistribute.”
Atkins et al. 2007; OECD & CERI 2007 or Cape Town Declaration, 2007 or UNESCO and COL 2011.
3 key components:
Open IP Licences (public domain); permission to use, adapt & replicate contents freely; non-discriminatory privilege.

5. What are the Open Educational
Practices ?
Practices which support the
production, use and reuse of
high quality OER through
institutional policies, which
promote innovative
pedagogical models, and
respect and empower
learners as co-producers on
their lifelong learning path.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsallaboutmich/840084501/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Wikiversity, P2P U, UoPeople, Khan Academy, MOOCs, Udacity or MITx

6. Why OER?
-Freedom of access also enhances flexibility of
resources (transdisciplinarity).
-Boosting opportunities for learning, applying
knowledge in a wider context.
-Supporting self-directed and peer-to-peer
informal learning (LLL).
-Materials for review purposes (open peer review,
feedback from student/user).
-Contributes to reputational benefits, visibility for
faculty (and institution).
-Enhances or diversifies the curriculum.
-Increase the sharing of ideas (new opportunities
for different people and communities).
-Supports widening participation: open textbooks
reduce the cost of study for learners.
Reuse - Revise - Remix - Redistribute (Wiley, 2007)

7. What is open access?
(that does not mean openly licensed)
Public All Rights
Domain Reserved
Least restrictive  Most restrictive
http://www.slideshare.net/mrgarin/o-a-w-e-e-k2009
OCW and
OER
Overlap
http://www.slideshare.net/openmichigan/find-use-remix-and-create-open-learning-materials

8. “White, D. Manton, M. JISC-funded OER Impact Study, University of Oxford, 2011”
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/oer/OERTheValueOfReuseInHigherEducation.pdf

9. Alm o s t 600 M . in
h ab itan ts
O ve r 2 ,5 00 u n iv
e rs itie s
7,000 H E in s titu
tio n s (1 )
1 5 m illio n s tu d e
n ts (2 )
70 L atin Am e ric
co u n trie s
an U e s 1 0
(O C W U n ive rs ia
) o ve r 2 00
c o u rs e
T e m o a - 30,000
ER
S c iE L O - R E D A
L YC (2 0 art. O E R )
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education - Web of Knowledge - Science - Thomson Reuters
1.Brunner, J.J. 2007. Universidad y sociedad en América Latina. Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación. Universidad Veracruzana.
2.Cruz González, D.E., D.J.L. García Cuevas, and D.E. González Suárez. (2010). “Las universidades de América Latina y El Caribe y el avance de las sociedades a
través de la innovación y la gestión tecnológica.” Universidad y Sociedad 2(1).

10. OportUnidad
Regional Agenda
General objective:
Strengthen the EU-LA
Common Higher
Education Area, through
a bottom-up approach, by
the increasing the use of
Cooperation
to contribute in the
economical and
open educational
social development
of HE practices and resources
(OEP & OER)

11. LA Partners
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil) (candidate)
Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador
Fundación Uvirtual, Bolivia
Universidad Virtual del Tecnológico de Monterrey (UVTM),
Mexico
Universidad de la Empresa, Uruguay
Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (UIGV), Peru
Universidad EAFIT, Colombia

12. EU Partners
Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” (USGM), Italy
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
University of Oxford (UOXF), United Kingdom

13. - R ais e aw are n e s s
& HEI
p artic ip atio n in O E P
.
- D e fin e th e O E R A
g e n d a fo r th e
re -u s e o f O E R
- D e fin e a m id -te rm
s trate g ic
ro ad m ap (lo cal-in s
titu tio n al
le ve l)
- T rain te ach e rs h o
w to u s e an d
re u s e O E R (e -s kills
)
- P ilo t s tart-u p o p e n
e d u catio n al
p ractic e s (tran s actio
n al lin kag e ).
Specific Objectives
of OportUnidad

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Common HE
Area
LA-UE
Pilot
Experimentation Training
WP4
M13-30 course
WP3
M13-24
OER Awareness
WP2
M1-12

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anaelisa2/2965802560/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Regional HUBs
Universidade Federal Fluminense & Oxford Internet Institute
– Partners > regional hubs
– Nominations
– Self-nominations *(survey)
• 60 universities:
a) Definition of OER Agenda
b) Institutional roadmap
c) Pilot OER training course
(educators)
d) Start-up of OEP
Compendium of
EU-LA OER practices
Good EU and LA models will be
exchanged and transferred.
Shows the benefits and pitfalls http://www.flickr.com/photos/fil/3151423/
of the use of OER in HE

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncreedplayer/6194043404/sizes/z/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agirregabiria/3499503013/
Consultations
(managerial
level) of the LA
Agenda of OER re-use
Institutional roadmap(s) EU-LA’s strategy for
partner
universities
-Mid-term strategic plan: OEP in HE
Implementation of OEP Agenda Policies/actions to
at local/institutional level. boost the benefit
of the use and re-
-Shaped by local, cultural and use of OER in HE.
institutional framework.
-In consultation with the managerial
level of the (60) universities.

17. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Stages of the on-line training course (approx. 80 hrs)
Understanding
Repurposing
Implementing
Identifying
Engaging
Creating
Defining
Aligning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/5tein/2176406692/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Start-up of OER
Participants will start-up OEP in their
universities as part of the implementation
of the institutional roadmap
Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica

18. Cros s-over ac
M an ag e
tivities
m e n t (W P 1 )
O p e rative an
d fin an c ial
m an ag e m e n
t
M e e tin g s (1 º
B raz il, C o s ta
E c u ad o r, B o R ic a,
livia)
P ro j c t Q u ali
e ty & E valu ati
(W P 5 ) on
D is s e m in atio
n (W P 6)
Long term results
E x p lo itatio n
(W P 7)
• Foster the role of HE to provide knowledge not only to
their on-campus students but also beyond the walls of
institutions to disadvantages groups (i.e. low income
peoples, disables, indigenous), adult learners, and
students coming from not traditional routes.
• An increasing level of quality of contents is expected as a
long term result of the initiative.

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theenmoy/5504152401/sizes/z/in/photostream/
join us!
Latin American universities and other Higher Education entities interested in becoming
OportUnidad Fellow Organisations are invited to complete a self-nomination form
http://tinyurl.com/oer2012

20. This presentartion was jointly prepared by
Cristina Stefanelli, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Italy
Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/cobo
@cristobalcobo
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