This document discusses open education models for developing digital skills in higher education. It proposes using MOOCs and OERs in blended and flipped classroom models to help students develop 21st century skills. The author details their university's experiences integrating MOOCs, virtual mobilities programs, and OERs into courses. Students gained new digital skills in areas like autonomy, critical thinking, creativity, and analyzing information. Challenges included a lack of guidelines and support. The document envisions future higher education being more open, flexible, lifelong, and personalized through virtual libraries, AI-assisted learning, and rapid prototyping of education.

1. Open Education Models for
Digital Skills in Higher
Education
Dr. Diana Andone
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/ @diando70
Visionary Leadership for Digital Transformation
UNECO, ICDE 2017

2. Open Education (policy, strategy, guides)

3. need to control - online activity,
communication, eLearning environment
Digital students

4. Todaystudentswilllearnindependentanddigitalalltheir
life
OPENlifelonglearningSTUDENT
21stcenturyskills
Aretheyreadyto identify,access,learn,analyse,apply,practicenewknowledge
acrossdifferentmedia,information,communication,toolsastoenhancetheir
skillsanddeveloptheircareers?

5. VM
How todevelop Openlife-long learning students
forthe21st century society?
MOOC OER

6. OER & MOOC
elements, resources
in a course
Use as external
resources
Bibliography
Retrieval learning
Live, face to face
discussions
Correct identification of
resources
OER&MOOCs–BlendedLearning/FlippedClassroom
MOOC courses credit
recognition
Integrating a full MOOC
course in curricula
National Quality
Standard
Assessment and
certification
Credit transfer
Integration MOOC&
OER in course
Group, project, lab
activity
Full MOOC course
Participation in global
learning communities
Live, face to face
discussions
Assessment and
certification

7. MOOCsintegrationinUPT
Digital Workshops by Google & Junior Achievement Romania
 MOOC in Romanian language, run between June –
December 2016
 UPT validate and approve Digital Marketing as an optional
course (2 ECTS)
 Finalised with Google diploma – instant recognition, part of
Diploma Supplement
 127 students finalised the course in 2016

8. Developing the Romanian MOOC

9. 9
UniCampus - Romanian MOOC
Reasoning o Initiated by the Elearning Center
of Politehnica University of
Timisoara, Romania since 2014
o 90% of Romanian Universities use
Moodle
o High Internet penetration and
mobile use
o Low postgraduate training in
Romania (17% of workforce in
2015)
o Moodle Academy (the simplified
MOOC by Moodle) not released
o Mobile app

10. www.unicampus.ro

11. www.unicampus.ro
Social presence
Virtual Study Room
Chats
Video quiz
Code plagiarism check
Social media connection
Open Education courses / guide

12. UniCampus OEW2016 - video

13. UniCampus OEW2016 evaluation
Desirability evaluation words that best describe students’ experience in UniCampus

14. M-Commerce course
www.unicampus.ro

15. www.unicampus.ro

16. VM
How todevelop Openlife-long learning students
forthe21st century society?
MOOC OER

17. OER & MOOC
elements, resources
in a course
Use as external
resources
Bibliography
Retrieval learning
Live, face to face
discussions
Correct identification of
resources
OER&MOOCs–BlendedLearning/FlippedClassroom
MOOC courses credit
recognition
Integrating a full MOOC
course in curricula
National Quality
Standard
Assessment and
certification
Credit transfer
Integration MOOC&
OER in course
Group, project, lab
activity
Full MOOC course
Participation in global
learning communities
Live, face to face
discussions
Assessment and
certification

18. OER&MOOCs–BlendedLearning/FlippedClassroominUPT
2013 - 2016
5 professors in UPT
12 courses
Live Courses of a
MOOC, at student’s
choice, in the course
subject
Commenting courses
resources
Blog and Wiki in CVUPT
fro student created
content
cv.upt.ro
Final report
25% of final mark
Students Master in
Multimedia
Technologies
Master in Digital Media
33% live MOOCs
93 % completed
87 % previously attended
another MOOC
Online discussion in
course blog, wiki and
face-to-face 16 courses
(45% edX, 34%
Coursera, FutureLearn,
iVersity, Udacity, et.
Final report
Students experience
(questionnaire)
Advantages: adaptive,
progress bar, learn in
ones rhythm,
interactivity,
accessibility,
flexibility, comfort
Disadvantages: lack
of a gradebook, lack
of communication
with tutors, difficulty,
long videos,
evaluation
A newlearning experience

19. Autonomy, critical thinking
New digital skills
Creativity
Interaction and collaboration
The curated use of information – analyze &
synthesize
Complex course design/management
OERs and MOOCs curating
New evaluation and assessments methods
New digital skills
OER&MOOCs–BlendedLearning/FlippedClassroominUPT
-Advantages

20. VM
How todevelop Openlife-long learning students
forthe21st century society?
MOOC OER

21. TalkTech 2008 -2016 Students
960 students involved, no dropout
Boston, BentleyUniv
Intro to Information Technology
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 19-22
Timisoara, UPT
Multimedia Technologies
50 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 21-22
International Virtual Mobilities

22. Structure, planning, guidelines,
project based activity

23. Live online
TalkTech 2016 students AR
examples discussions

24. TalkTech 2008 – 2016 - TOOLS

25. ThingLink
TalkTech 2016 Students

26. ThingLink
TalkTech 2016 Students

27. Aurasma
Blippar
Layar
TalkTech 2016 students AR
examples

28. Live online in Timisoara
TalkTech 2016 project presentations

29. Live online in Waltham, MA
TalkTech 2016 project presentations

30. Multicultural
Online – different time zones
Simulate real world work in an IT company
Students freely choose the tools, communication, working time
and hours, result
Analysing, curating, synthetizing and creating digital media
artifacts students interrogate their digital learning
Planning, discussing, posting, and sharing this work online with
international partners provides an opportunity for validating
their information, media literacy and communication skills
TalkTech 2008-2016 Virtual mobilities

31. clear universities policies on the
accreditation of MOOCs and OERs
a strategic approach
clear guidelines and support to
professors and students
Leadershiprelevance

32. Todaystudentswilllearnindependentanddigitalalltheir
life
OPENlifelonglearningSTUDENT
21stcenturyskills
Aretheyreadyto identify,access,learn,analyse,apply,practicenewknowledge
acrossdifferentmedia,information,communication,toolsastoenhancetheir
skillsanddeveloptheircareers?

33. VM
How todevelop Openlife-long learning students
forthe21st century society?
MOOC OER
Flipped classroom Blended learning Virtual mobilities

34. A vision: future of higher education
Virtual libraries
Collaborative
University, student services replaced by Artificial
intelligence
Personalised assessment defined by AI
Conventional academic year model replaced with more
modular and personalised learning delivery
Rapid prototyping of education
Open, flexible, digital modular lifelong education

35. Try new things!

36. CONTACT
Dr. Diana Andone
Director
e-Learning Center
Politehnica University of Timisoara
Romania
Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
Web
Elearning.upt.ro/diana.andone
@diando70
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
EDEN Fellow
2011
EDEN Executive
Committee
IEEE Computer
Society and
Women in
Engineering