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Open Education Week 2019
Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide, the free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now. With the success of previous years' Open Education Weeks in the background, EDEN once […]
Education 2030 – Open knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in Europe and the world
Short presentations & panel discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Sandra Kucina Softic, EDEN Vice-president, SRCE Description: Education and learning are changing and developing on the basis of a range of drivers and technology is among the most prominent of these. Educators will increasingly find themselves in an environment in which there is an overload of information, […]
Ongoing initiatives for Open Education in Europe
Presentation and discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Lisa Marie Blaschke, EDEN Senior Fellow, Chair of EDEN Council of Fellows, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany Description: A number of innovative and unique initiatives around the topic of open education have been emerging throughout Europe, specifically in the areas of micro-credentialing and prior learning assessment and […]
The story of the Open University in Europe and the world
Panel discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Mark Brown, EDEN EC member, EDEN Fellow, Dublin City University, Ireland Description: The Open University has a long tradition and this webinar brings together four distinguished speakers who will share their reflections on following questions: What makes the Open University unique from other universities? What major challenges have open universities […]
OER quality assessment
Presentation and discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Antonella Poce, EDEN Fellow, EDEN NAP SC Chair, University Roma III, Italy Description: In the context of Open Education, quality assessment tools are necessary. Speaking of quality means quality assurance, quality audit and quality enhancement. Atenas and Havemann (2014) list a series of actions to identify resources to be […]
Researching openness – evidence-based approach
Panel discussionWatch the recording Moderator: Josep M. Duart, EDEN Vice-president for Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Research questions to be discussed in the panel: How openness is approach in research? Thematic overview (levels of openness, other dimensions that are addressed through research publications, e.g. open online learning, open distance learning, OER, OEP, etc.). What […]
OER and Open Pedagogies – Best Practices
Watch the Recording View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: Aim of this webinar is to show examples of good practice of use of Open Education Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. Open Education Resources and Open Education Movement are high on the agenda in EU but also worldwide, yet teachers and educators are struggling […]
Open Education Recognition and Credentials
WATCH THE RECORDING View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: For flexible, open and online education to become reality, it is vital to increase trust in recognition and credentials through robust and reliable solutions. In Europe, we already have standards and tools that can be used to transparently describe qualifications. The European Qualifications Framework gives […]
Open Education Technologies
WATCH THE RECORDING View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: The world is changing towards a more inclusive and interconnected global marketplace, where technology is playing an intensive role. Education actively responds to these changes by including more and more open education principles, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. Those institutions that enhance […]
Open Education for Civil Engagement and Democracy
WATCH THE RECORDING View the PresentationsPresentations & panel discussion Description: Open education has a key role to play in potentiating social inclusion. As noted by the European Commission for education in general (but is particularly relevant for open education) it helps to establish common values key to such inclusion: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the […]
Unboxing the Textbook for an Open World
WATCH THE RECORDING View the PresentationPresentation & panel discussion Description: The textbook is an enduring staple of higher education, occupying a key role in formal educational settings. Practices may vary greatly in educational settings as to how the costs of textbooks are borne by students. Moreover, the role and nature of the textbook are changing […]