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OPAL: Innovation through OER

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    1. OPAL is innovative in three regards:

 

OPAL is innovative in three regards:

  1. It extends the model of OER with the concepts of quality and innovation into the concept of open educational practices (OEP) where OER are used in innovative educational scenarios to raise quality for HE and AE. Research and experiences show that the uptake of OER demands for a culture of sharing, valuing innovative and social network based forms of learning, and encouraging novel pedagogical models. OPAL combines OER with the concept of quality and innovation to OEP - practices which support the (re)use and production of high quality OER through institutional policies, promote innovative pedagogical models, and learners' empowerment.
  2. It is focussing on innovation and quality through OEP and thus aims at impact of OER use in the field of HE and AE. Existing approaches for fostering the use of OER have made achievements by focussing on building access to resources (e.g. MERLOT, MIT OCW, Stanford iTunes, Openlearn of OUUK, Rice University, Opentrain UNESCO, OER WIKI UNESCO etc.) and licence models (e.g. creativecommons.org). However, a lack of trust, little existing sharing cultures and acceptance on educators’ side hinder OER use and better access. OPAL is building trust by establishing a EU Environment for Quality and Innovation through OEP in the field of HE and AE.
  3. It is building a EU multistakeholder environment which is taking into consideration the OEP governance community in order to root quality and innovation in a deep consensus, concert European activities and provide a European interface to international initiativesEU multistakeholder environment. While existing OER initiatives gather large provider institutions of high reputation mostly from outside of EU (s. above), OPAL proposes for the first time to create an EU multistakeholder group of organisations, learners, policy makers and professionals to promote OEP sustainably.

     

 

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