Building a Policy for Open Education Resources Aligning policy with goals and actions

Action lab slides for OE Global Milan, 28.11.19 by Ben Janssen and Dominic Orr. Linked to the OER Guidelines for policy here: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000371129

1. Dr. Dominic Orr Adjunct professor, University of Nova Gorica Research lead at Kiron Open Higher Education Twitter: @dominicorr Ben Janssen Director, OpenEd Consult / Fontys University of Applied Sciences Twitter: @benjanssenNL Photo by Chris Gray on Unsplash Building a Policy for Open Education Resources Aligning policy with goals and actions Open education for an open future
2. Action lab https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000371129
3. “Small scale, innovative projects but with little systemic impact, [are] often not continued beyond pilot or funding schemes, without any scientific evaluation on outcomes, effectiveness and efficiency.” The starting point (Punie, Kampylis, & Vuorikari, 2013) (Christian Heilmann CC BY on Flickr)
4. The new context for OER: The recommendation adopted on 25.11.19 (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370936) Photo, Mitja Jemol, 2019 Developing supportive policy 12. Member States, according to their specific conditions, governing structures and constitutional provisions, should develop or encourage policy environments, including those at the institutional and national levels that are supportive of effective OER practices.
5. OER are teaching, learning and research materials that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licencing, to permit their free re-use, continuous improvement and re-purposing by others for educational purposes.
6. What is the nature of a policy? A policy / strategy: ✓ sets direction ✓ focuses efforts ✓ defines the organization ✓ provides consistency (Mintzberg et al, 2009, 16- 18). Overarching and comprehensive policies are necessary to take reforms to scale and to integrate them into the ‘normal’ system, since any new reform requires existing prioritisation, administrative routines and decision-making structures to be re-assessed and in many cases realigned to the new reform.
7. The policy framework: choosing scope and scale
8. Aligning OER characteristics to key objectives in SDG4 • Reducing costs of access • Improving relevance of learning content to individual needs • Reducing barriers to learning opportunities for underserved groups • Providing multi-lingual and localised content • Adult literacy and gender-sensitivity as cross-cutting issues • Skills development responding to the changing world and the future of learning
9. The 7 steps in designing an OER policy for better T & L
10. Action Lab Participants will divide themselves into groups of no more than 4 persons, give themselves a team name and log-in to this Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/oec_oerguidelines 20 mins - Each group will try to answer the 3 questions from the end of Chapter 2 of the Guidelines 20 mins - Each group will try to answer the 4 questions from the end of Chapter 3 of the Guidelines 10 mins - Wrap-up: each team will briefly present their outcomes
11. Action Lab – first steps We look forward to the next steps…