Presentation of Ulf- Daniel Ehlers, EDEN Fellow, EDEN EC member, State University Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, for the Open Education Week's fourth day webinar on "OER quality assessment " - 7 March 2019 Recordings of the discussion are available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/pgemi5ksgi4k/

2. Prof. Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
EDEN Fellow, EDEN Executive Member
Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University
Current and future Open
Educational Resources
Quality
Open Education Week 2019

3. The Problem
• The problem with OER Quality is the
contextlessness OER is created for.
• Without knowledge about the learner, and
his/her context learning quality can not be
established.
• Resource quality can.

4. Euro/ International
Quality Initiatives for OER
OER Quality: Diverse
contexts
Initiatives on
Quality and OER

5. Need for
consolidated body
of experiences and
knowledge on
quality in 2013/2014

6. Question:
OER Quality Responsibility
(Old question: Is learning a function of teaching?)
OER
Repository
OER
Creation
OER
institutional
Ed. Contexts
OER
Learner
Focus: Quality of Learning? vs. Quality of Resources?
Development & Storage
Lifecycle approaches
Practices & Usage
Evaluation approaches

7. The context of future education &
learning is important
New school starters in September 2016...
• ... finish primary school in 2020
• ... graduate from secondary school in 2028
• ... receive their Bachelor in 2031
• ... celebrate their Mastergraduation in 2033
and starts to work...
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8. From
(closed) education
to
(open) learning

9. Bologna
University, Italy
(1088)
http://isdsbologna2013.org/blog/location/bologna/#!prettyPhoto-205/0/
Bochum,
Germany
(1980)
MIT (2004)

10. The career of an idea...
Where does that leave us?
• The traditional model: Exclusively for few
chosen.
• The modern (massification) model: Standard
model for masses.
• The post-modern model: Individualised and
diversified HE (Episodically, rip&mix,
patchwork)

11. Open Education
and
Open educational resources
as a new value proposition
For learning and for training.
(e.g. European Network for Catalysing Open
Resources in Education)

12. From Resources to Practices
(2010-2012)
A Mindshift in
Higher Education

13. Open Education Practice

14. Quality for open learning cultures… : Not a new
generation of quality methodology but changing
functions and roles
• From acquisition & reception to participation & negotiation: A new
metaphor for learning
• From control to culture & reflection: Not conformity but reflection
• From inspection to inspiration: Towards quality as innovation
• From product & process to competence & performance
• From consumer to (co-)producer of learning: Focus on artefacts
and processes
• From ‘island of learning’ (LMS) to ‘island hopping’ (connected
learning worlds)

15. Quality development: evaluation & certifictaion of content, processes,
programs, institutions
Quality management: organisational proceedures
and indicators for their quality
Quality assurance: analyses if a certain
level of quality is met
Quality control: looks for errors,
mistakes
Learning not in formal institutional education but
informal and outside organisations
Who is determining the quality?
No pre-defined learning content
Learning processes highly heterogenous
What can be evaluated?
With which methods?
Quality
What we are used to…
Open
Education

16. Challenges for Quality Development
The view on quality changes
current view Open learning oriented view
Quality assessed through experts Quality assessed through learners
and peers
Learning platform Personal Learning Environment
Content User Created Content
Curricula Learning diaries/e-portfolios
Course structure Communication
Tutor availability Interaction
Multimedia (Interactivity) Social networks / Communities of
Practice (CoP)
Acquisition processes Participation processes

17. Target Group
oriented evaluation
Self-Evaluation
Self AssessmentSocial recommendation &
communitiy participation
E-Portfolio Evaluation
Peer Assessment, learning groups, network
social recommendation mechanisms,
peer-review,
peer reflection,
peer-assist
peer-learning,
benchlearning
responsive evaluation,
formative evaluation;
Stakeholder participation
Methods for Quality Development
in future open learning

18. Quality management
systems, tools,
mechanism, to assure,
manage and enhance
quality.
Enabling Factors
Quality
Competencies
Knowledge
Quality Cultures
Values
Patterns
Norms
Rituals
SymbolsLanguage(s)
PracticesSkills Attitudes
Commitment
Structures
Negotiation
Organisational Context
Organisational Cultures
Participation Communication
Trust
Individual and Collective
Heroes
Artefacts
Stories
Myths
Incorporations
(Ehlers 2008)
Towards an open quality culture

20. Thank you for your
attention!!
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
ehlers@dhbw-kalrsruhe.de
www.ulf-ehlers.net