Presentation by Airina Volungevičienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania for the European Distance Learning Week's fourth day webinar on "Validation and recognition of non-formal open learning" - 10 November 2016 Recording of the discussion is available here: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/p4zf2rzb8gr/

3. Designing open and non-formal
curriculum for recognition.
ReOPEN project approach
Airina Volungevičienė,
Vytautas Magnus University

4. Priorities addressed
• Open and innovative education, training and
youth work, embedded in the digital era
• Transparency and recognition of skills and
qualifications to facilitate learning, employability
and labour mobility
• Access to training and qualifications for all
through C-VET

5. Opening Up. Challenges for organizations
• organizational change
• curriculum opening up through:
– Open Educational Resources
– Massive open online courses
– open collaboration and communication among teachers and
learners
– opening and creating innovative education services for diverse
learning groups
– recognition and validation of non-formal open learning

6. Consortium
1. Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas
2. ONECO
3. ESCP Europe Wirtschafthochschule
4. Q21 - Agentur für Qualifizierungs und
Transfermanagement GmbH
5. SRCE - Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Sveucilisni Racunski
Centar
6. EDEN - European Distance and e-Learning Network

7. Project scope
• Addressing objectives of "Opening Up“
• Implementing recommendations of EC JRC research study on
“Validation of Non-formal MOOC – based Learning” (2016) by
– establishing validated open learning practices
– offering learner credentials for online and open learning (OOL)
curriculum:
• verification of learner identity
• setting learning agreement and other instruments
– establishing digital badges for recognition of learning
achievements
– establishing collaboration with institutions to provide transparent
information on potential recognition of OOL
– providing T&T with the tools for OOL development and
recognition

8. Project targets
• The project targets at collaboration of C-VET, lifelong
learning, higher education (HE) institutions and
companies trough international, inter-sectorial
collaboration to enhance access to OOL and
qualifications for all through C-VET
• Teachers and trainers (T&T) at C-VET, lifelong learning,
adult learning, HE and companies are the key target
group of the project

9. Aim and objectives
ReOPEN project aims to create instruments to develop
validated OOL for recognition of prior and non-formal
learning.
The aim will be reached through the following objectives:
1. To design a platform for non-formal open learning
curriculum (e.g. MOOC) development with learning
validation and recognition instruments in place:
a) learner credentials
b) digital badges
c) learning path recognition and assessment tools

10. Aim and objectives
2. To train T&T at C-VET organizations, companies, HE
institutions and adult learning organizations to:
a) design validated non-formal open learning
curriculum (e.g. MOOC or other)
b) apply of digital badges as a new form of digital
credentialisation and tracking one’s learning path in
non-formal open learning
c) recognize non-formal open learning results in formal
curricular

11. Aim and objectives
3. To exploit the new platform and to design non-formal
open learning courses for continuous professional staff
developing (CPD) applying learning recognition
instruments for validated non-formal open learning
4. To establish partnership for future collaboration for
non-formal open learning recognition (reviewing
curriculum in partner institutions and preparing
information on potential recognition of open learning)

12. Questions pending and issues raised
• Recognition of learning results vs recognition of learning
process
• Validation of learning results vs validated learning
environment
• Recognition of open learning and non-formal learning in
formal learning
• Multilateral agreement – among education providers and
companies – on recognition of learning
• Verification of learners in open learning environments vs
verification of learners in “traditional” virtual and online
learning environments

13. Questions pending and issues raised
• Is it really the learning outcome that we recognise?
• How can we measure recognition of achievement?
• Does verification of learner solve the issue of
assessment? What do we assess?
We look forward to the development of the discussion at
ReOPEN Facebook website
https://www.facebook.com/reopenproject/