1. Open Education Europa Overview 2. Focus on Education Innovation - European Teachers Contest - Good Practices Section - Community of European Education Pioneers - Education in the Digital Era Activities - Open Education Europa Tour (Workshop Series) 3. European OER Repositories List Presentation at the 12th Educational Repositories Network (EdReNe) Seminar

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12th Educational Repositories Network Seminar
Open Education Europa: The European
Hub for Innovation in Education
Stylianos Mystakidis
20 October 2015, Copenhagen

2. Welcome to
openeducationeuropa.eu

3. • Part of the Opening Up Education initiative
• A Collaborative Network of OE institutions
• A Community of Practitioners working
together
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openeducationeuropa.eu

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5. European
Institutions &
Associations
Over 200 HE
Institutions in
Europe (28+
countries)
OER
Repositories/
MOOC
Platforms/
Other Initiatives
ANY OTHER
INSTITUTIONS

6. The homepage

7. DISCUSSFIND IN-DEPTH SHARE
openeducationeuropa.eu three main pillars

8. IN-DEPTH

9. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/open_education_scoreboard

10. Insightful Editorials – Expert
Opinions - Interactive Discussions
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11. IN-DEPTH

12. eLearning papers
Teacher-led Innovation
eLearningpapers journal
eLearning papers 2015 topics addressing key issues of open
education:
• Nº 41: Innovation, entrepreneurship and education
• Nº 42: Design Patterns for Open Online Teaching and Learning
• Nº 43: Applied Games and Gamification – Drivers for Change
• Nº 44: Teacher-led Innovation and the teachers' role in the
digital era
• Nº 45: Language Learning and Technology

13. IN-DEPTH
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• Blog Posts
• Groups
• Events
• Good Practices

14. Focus on Education
Innovation

15. New priorities for European
cooperation in education and training
1. Relevant and high-quality skills and competences,
focusing on results, for employability, innovation and
active citizenship
2. Inclusive education, equality, non-discrimination and
promotion of civic competences
3. Open and innovative education and training, including by
fully embracing the digital era
4. Strong support for educators
5. Transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications
to facilitate learning and labour mobility
6. Sustainable investment, performance and efficiency of
education and training systems
Source: Draft 2015 Joint Report of the Council and the Commission on the implementation of the
Strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (ET2020)

16. Focus on Education Innovation
1. European Teachers Contest
2. Good Practices Section
3. Community of European Education
Pioneers
4. Education in the Digital Era Activities
5. Open Education Europa Tour
(Workshop Series)

17. Open Education Europa
Teachers Contest
Boosting innovative teaching
Sharing openly Good Teaching Practices

18. Open Education Europa Teachers Contest
• Open for all Educators in Europe
• All levels of formal Education (primary, secondary,
higher), Vocational Training, Adult Education
• All disciplines/subjects
• Prize: Visit to an Innovative European School
• Open Education Europa (OEE) Pioneer Badge for all
participants

19. How can you participate?
You may submit in any European language
Deadline: October 31st, 2015
Share your good practice
in the OEE portal!

20. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/teacher-contest

21. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/share-your-good-teaching-or-learning-practice

22. What is a Good Practice in OEE?
Action, initiative or experience that enhances
learning and is characterized by:
• Innovation or
• Openness or
• Inclusion

23. OEE Good Practices Criteria
• Innovation: application of a novel approach,
method, medium or resource to improve
teaching or learning (not necessarily tech-
related)
• Openness: use or production of resources that
are shared freely; the opening up of the
classroom with open educational practices
• Inclusion; providing access to education or
training to a previously excluded group or
audience

24. Open Education Europa
Good Practices Section
Sharing of Good Practices remains open
after the Teachers Contest

25. Good Practices Section
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/share/good-practices

26. Good Practices Early Analysis
• 69 Good Practices from 22 countries
• 30 GPs self-associate with Openness
• Submission in 8 different languages
• Top-5 countries: Greece, Romania, Spain,
Lithuania, Italy
• 38% from Eastern European countries
• No GPs (so far) from: France, Austria,
Denmark, Finland, Sweden
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27. Open Education Europa
Education Pioneers Community

28. OEE European Education Pioneers Community
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/groups/european-education-pioneers

29. Education in the Digital Era Activities
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2 Tweetchats
#openedueu
#eddigera
4 Webinars

30. Open Education Europa Tour
Education Innovation Workshop Series

31. OEE Tour (London Workshop):
8 Teacher Truths in the Digital Era
1. Learning aims, not tech dreams
2. Create conditions for risk-taking
3. Effect a change in teacher attitudes
4. Ensure the tech works flawlessly
5. Save teachers time
6. Find new ways to share knowledge
7. Meet teachers and use influencers
8. Create spaces for experimentation
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/blogs/8-teacher-truths-digital-era

32. Open Education Europa &
European OER Repositories

33. Issues for European cooperation in
education and training
• Mainstreaming innovative and active pedagogies to enhance the
development of relevant and high-level skills and competences
while fostering inclusive education
• Fostering participatory education governance
• Increasing synergies between education, research and
innovation activities
• Promoting the use of ICT as a driver for systemic change to
increase quality and relevance of education at all levels
• Boosting availability and quality of open and digital educational
resources and pedagogies at all education levels, in cooperation
with European open source communities
• Addressing the development of digital skills and competences at
all levels of learning in response to the digital revolution
Source: Draft 2015 Joint Report of the Council and the Commission on the implementation of the
Strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (ET2020)

34. European
OER Repositories List

35. European OER List
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36. Methodology
What did we include?
• European OER Portals and Repositories
• Educational material repositories/directories
• Larger Repositories rather than very specific ones
• Focus on those who include Creative Commons license and
on National/public OER repositories
• Focus on material for teachers (for the classroom/schools)
rather than on higher education
• Collaborative OER production initiatives (e.g. LeMill, RVP.CZ
Portal, Lektion.se, KlasCement")
114 repositories
listed
This is an ongoing
process!

37. Methodology
• What did we did not include?
• Open access journal/publication sites (can be found OpenDOAR)
• Open course ware or MOOCs
• ITunes U
• Academic Repositories (articles, reports, thesis)
• Open TextBooks, OpenAccess Repositories
• Sets of content that are not under CC licences such as BBC
• Include digital libraries of universities etc
• Free educational media from non-commercial providers (free education
by Greek TV channel)
• (Free) commercial digital resources (Pearson: "OpenClass”)
• National e-textbook initiatives
• Free educational media from non-commercial providers (BBC, Times
Educational Supplement website…)

38. The Findings
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12
6
9
13 13
7
15
3 3
2 2
4
3
4
1 1
2
1 1
2
1 1 1
2
1 1
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
UnitedKingdom
Paneuropean
Sweden
Germany
Greece
Spain
France
Bulgaria
Denmark
Finland
Latvia
Portugal
Slovenia
Austria
Hungary
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Poland
Romania
Belgium
Cyprus
CzechRepublic
Estonia
Ireland
Netherlands
Distribution by country

39. The Findings
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8%
3%
8%
28%
20%
4%
4%
20%
5%
By type of organizer
Association
EU Project
Foundation
National Government
Private
Public
Regional Government
University
Other

40. The Findings
• The majority are mainly focused on offering OER
• Different sizes: From 100 OERs to more than
300.000 published
• Not all of them (but many) reference clearly the
Creative Commons license
• Nearly none with user feedback/rating tools
• Multilingual OER offered in some cases, even by
national repositories
• Usually no reference to quality
• No standardization: taxonomies, subjects,
structure
• Interest in sharing: Several repositories offer RSS

41. Get the European OER List
(open data)
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/

42. Call to Action for
European OER Repositories 1/2
Encourage your Community Leaders & OER
Champions to:
• Register in Open Education Europa
• Share their Good Practices
• Join & participate in the OEE Education
Pioneers Community

43. Call to Action for
European OER Repositories 2/2
• Give us your feedback on the European OER
List
• Be involved in our upcoming activities around
Education Innovation
• Co-organize a Education Innovation Workshop
(online or face-to-face)
• Cooperate with us to make OER and your
Repositories the epicenter in European
Educators every-day’s practice

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