Some thoughts on how to embed OER and OEP in Adult Education. Presentation given in a webinar during the Open Education Week 2015.

2. OER uptake in adult
education institutions
10 March 2015

3. Preliminary Remarks
• The webinar is recorded and it will be available on the project
website www.oerup.eu
• Presentation of participants (participants are invited to type
their name, affiliation and country in the chat room)

4. AGENDA OF THE WEBINAR
1. Introduction of the OERup! Initiative by Ines Kreitlein, MFG, Germany
2. Definitions and tensions
3. Barriers and drivers for the use of OER in adult education (guidelines for
the group discussion) –> inputs here on the chat room
4. First results of the needs analysis and training concept
5. Group discussion:
– Barriers and drivers for the use of OER in adult education
– Further comments on the training concept
– Example of practices (open question) and training materials
6. What’s next

5. summer 2014 - summer 2016
HE SE AE
who we are

6. adressing adult learning professionals and the staff of adult learning
institutions - but also policy makers in the field of adult learning
to help
IDENTIFY the status quo of OER use in Adult Education Institutions (AEI)
RAISE awareness around the value of OER & OEP
CREATE and FIND good Open Educational Practices
IMPROVE OEP skills of educational professionals
SET IN MOTION a culture of Open Education
and finally SUPPORT AEI’s in developing and implementing sustainable OEPs
what we aim for

7. what we are working on

8. Our main questions
• Can you guess how many adult learning institutions fully use
OER today?
• How transformative is this?
• How will this evolve?
• What can we do to make this happen faster, better and more
inclusively?

9. Definitions
• ADULT LEARNING: Adult learning is defined as all forms of learning undertaken by adults
after having left initial education and training, however far this process may have gone (e.g.,
including tertiary education). Communication “It is never too late to learn”, European
Commission, 2006
• OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES: OEP are practices which support the (re)use and
production of OER through institutional policies, promote innovative pedagogical models,
and respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning path. Whereas
OER focus on content and resources, OEP represents the practice in which an educational
method is employed to create an educational environment in which OER are used or created
as learning resources. Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL), discussion paper: “Open
educational practice - approaching a definition for a new concept”

10. Tensions
• Open versus free
• Pedagogy versus appreciation
• Altruism versus marketisation
• Community versus openness
• Mass participation versus quality
• Add-on versus embedded funding
Source: IPTS, Overview and Analysis of Practices with Open Educational Resources in Adult
Education in Europe

11. Activities in OER projects in Adult Education

12. Group Discussion
BARRIERS DRIVERS
• Language issues
• Technology readiness of Adult Education
professionals
• The concept of OER is new and confusing
• Low perceived quality of OER
• Lack of OER-based business models
• Lack of cultural recognition that ‘learning’ can
take place outside formal structures
• …
• Simplicity and easy implementation of the OER
idea
• Low budgets and motivation to reuse contents
• Free (no cost) access
• Broadening and enriching the learning offer
• Enabling collaborative / international projects
Barriers and drivers for the adoption of OER in adult education

13. Training Description
The OERup! training aims at fostering the implementation of open
educational practices in adult learning. Within a blended-learning format,
educational professionals as well as the staff and management of adult
learning institution will be trained in reusing, revising, remixing, and
redistributing OER. Further, participants will engage in setting up strategies
for OEP in their professional environment.
The training provides relevant content through expert sessions in forms of
webinars. In addition, it foresees the development of initial OER practices by
the participants in one face-to-face meeting of which first steps of the
implementation process will be accompanied by online coaching sessions.

14. Expected Learning Outcomes
After having participated in the training, the learner will
 know about OER & OEP and be sensitized to the benefits of open practices in adult
learning
 be aware of OER initiatives and communities and be well informed about the current
status quo
 be able to apply appropriate licensing to their teaching material
 be familiar with didactical concepts of how to include OER/OEP into their teaching
methods
 know about the requirements for an open environment that is needed to implement
OEP in a sustainable manner
 be equipped with the tools (guidelines, project plan, etc.) and first ideas that help them
to model their own Open Educational Practice
 have developed a strategy and alongside initiated/completed their first OEP
 be connected to colleagues who are interested in OEP for future exchange on the topic

15. Training Contents
1. OER & OEP - what is it? what‘s in it for me?
• definition of the terms and the philosophy behind it
• good practices
2. Creating, using, adapting, and distributing OER
• licences (how to read them, how to use them)
• metadata (what is needed in order to make OER findable)
• accessibility (resources for different devices)
• infrastructure – OER repositories (for educational professionals as well as learners)
• quality assurance of OER
3. Implementing OEP
• integrating the learner in OEP (didactical aspects)
• policies for OEP (institutional aspects)
• OEP enriching the business concept
open culture/
community building

16. Group Discussion
Enrich barriers and drivers table
Comment the training concept
Example of practices and training materials

17. WHAT’S NEXT
• Join our OERup! Community on Google+
• Let us know your interest to held a training webinar during the OERup!
Training course for adult education professionals
• Participate in our OERup! event on June 8, 2015 in Barcelona hosted by
UOC
• Meet project partners during the EDEN Conference (9-12 June 2015,
Barcelona)
• Help us promoting the training course (or express your interest to
participate) that will take place during the period September 2015 -
February 2016

18. Thank you
www.OERup.eu
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