Register Now! Join Us For Open Education Week 2024, 4-7 March

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Register Now! Open Education Week 2024 4-7 March

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. EDEN is endorsing the Open Education Week for the 8th year now organizing EDEN DLE OEW. We want to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in education, whether that’s to develop skills and knowledge for work, supporting formal studies, learning something new for personal interest, or looking for additional teaching resources. Don’t forget to register, as EDEN will issue open badges to acknowledge and appreciate your participation at these events. Be sure to mark March 4-7 on your calendar! Join us for the following events – participation is free and open!

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The Future of AI in Formal and Informal Education Contexts: Inclusion, Ethics and New Perspectives

Monday, 4 March 2024, 15:30 (CET)

The panel will discuss the potential role and impact of artificial intelligence in both formal and informal educational contexts, highlighting the ethical implications and possibilities in terms of promoting the social and cultural inclusion of different categories of learners, such as those with protected characteristics (such as disability). In the panel, experts will present case studies, research experiences and good practices implemented in different educational institutions, from primary schools to heritage institutions.

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Insights on Technology-Supported Teaching, Learning and Teacher Development in Contexts of Low Resources and Marginalisation

Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 14:00 (CET)

Remote access to educational resources and opportunities for study or professional development increasingly depend on continuous access to technology, particularly smartphones and other mobile devices. Many people find themselves excluded, due to limited personal and local resources as well as multiple forms of marginalisation. In this session we present experiences and research findings from recent funded projects in low resource settings in several countries, with a special focus on Asia and Africa. The common theme in these projects has been a focus on marginalised or resource-constrained educators and students, including refugees and those who are from marginalised minority ethnic backgrounds. We draw attention to the aspirations and motivations of our research participants in their education contexts and share important insights into their experiences with technology.

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Future Skills for a World Shaped by AI

Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 17:00 (CET)

“AIComp – Future Skills for a Life World Shaped by AI” marks a pioneering endeavor in the realm of educational and professional development. It is developed through the NextEducation Research Group and presents the most comprehensive study to date on the subject. It sheds light on the evolving requirements that professionals face in both their careers and personal lives in an era increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence. This groundbreaking study stands out as the first to adopt a fully action-competence-oriented approach, reconstructing an empirical competency model directly from the data gathered from over 1,600 professionals. The European skill model AIComp (Artificial Intelligence Competences) was meticulously developed through the collaborative efforts of the AI-Campus and AI-Campus Hub projects, alongside with 13 partners from education, research and industry. By delving into the competency needs that emerge as AI becomes more integral to our professional and personal spheres, AIComp offers invaluable insights into preparing for a future where artificial intelligence shapes significant aspects of our existence. This study not only maps out the terrain of future skills but also pioneers a methodological approach that promises to influence how we understand and respond to the demands of a world transformed by AI

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Rethinking Digital Assessment in the Age of GenAI

Wednesday, 6 March 2024, 13:00 (CET)

Join us for this insightful webinar, where we bring together three international experts in educational technologies, digital assessment, and artificial intelligence. In the age of GenAI, understanding its impact on learners’ assessment is very important. This event aims to provide educators with insights into redesigning digital assessment strategies to meet the challenges and potential posed by GenAI. Also, AI-specific competencies, defined within the AI Pioneers project, will be introduced as part of the supplement of the DigCompEdu framework.

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GenAI Role Related to OER: How Teaching and Learning Can Benefit From It

Thursday, 7 March 2024, 13:00 (CET)

GenAIs play a crucial role in Open Educational Resources (OER) by improving the accessibility, equity, inclusivity and effectiveness of teaching and learning materials. Through advanced natural language processing and personalised learning algorithms, GenAIs can tailor content to the individual needs of learners, promoting a more adaptive and engaging educational experience. In addition, they contribute to the creation of high-quality OER by generating educational content, assessments and interactive resources, expanding the availability of diverse and innovative educational materials. Accordingly, it is important to take the lead in the AI era. Join us in this session organised in collaboration with ICDE, OER Advocacy Committee and discuss with experts on the topic of GenAI, OER and high-quality teaching and learning in the digital age.

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Bay View Analytics Update: July 2023

The K-12 data in this item seems quite interesting.

OER Awareness in K-12 and Higher Education is on the rise Our latest data on tracking the awareness of open educational resources (OER) in U.S. education shows that OER continues to make gains. OER Awareness in Higher Education faculty grew 7% in 2022-23, up to an all-time high of 64%. There was a similar, 7% increase in awareness amongst K-12 teachers, reversing a small decline we saw during the pandemic. The results are part of our 2022-23 OER Awareness and Curriculum Adoption Survey. The full reports will be coming out later this summer, but we presented a first look at the 2023 USDLA National Conference. You can learn more on our website. Tracking Digital Curricula Adoption and Satisfaction As part of our ongoing research, we’ve authored a pair of briefs focused on our 2022 Higher Education OER Awareness and Curricula Adoption research results. These focus on the rise of digital adoption and OERcurricula satisfaction. The global COVID-19 pandemic changed how faculty teach, and resulted in a large rise in digital curricula use. We partnered with the Brian Murphy Group to investigate how the digital adoption trend varied across different course disciplines. Read the research brief on our website. As part of our research into faculty satisfaction with curricula, we took a look at how satisfaction varies by publisher type, comparing major commercial publishers, smaller commercial publishers, and OER, and measured how OER fares across several factors. Read the research brief on our website. Check Out Our Recent Presentations The Student Perspective: Is distance learning worth the cost?  USDLA 2023 | Conference details | Download presentation slides (PDF) There is considerable agreement among faculty and administrators that the cost of an education is becoming financially out of reach for many students, and growing inflation will only exacerbate the issue. But what about students? Do they believe that distance learning is worth the cost? To find out, we polled over 2,000 currently enrolled students from a variety of backgrounds and institutions, to gather their thoughts about the value of their education. As always, you can find more of our recent presentations on our website. Connect With Us We welcome your comments and feedback on our contact page. Bay View Analytics 6924 Thornhill Dr, Oakland United States of America

OLDaily ~ Apr 11, 2022 – Open Educational Practices in K-12 Online and Blended Learning Environments

This showed up in my inbox at the end of last week and I wanted to pass it along.

Open Educational Practices in K-12 Online and Blended Learning Environments
Verena Roberts, Constance Blomgren, Kristina Ishmael, Lee Graham, Handbook of research on K-12 online and blended learning, 2022/04/11

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This is chapter 38 from the enormous Handbook of research on K-12 online and blended learning (2nd ed.). (739 page PDF). It draws the connection between open education and participation. “A participatory culture is an essential contributor to OEP in K-12 learning environments. Participatory cultural skills include: play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking and negotiation.” Citing the Multiply K-12 OER Project, the authors note that this includes “sharing ideas and resources; relective practice; a connected community; learner generated content; and peer review.”

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Open Education Week 2022 Outcomes

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Open Education Week 2022 The Open Education Week 2022 comes to an end after a week of live and open webinars in which more that 30 experts discussed some of the key and ongoing topics on the education and e-learning environment. More than 600 people from 54 different countries registed to follow the webinars through Zoom, YouTube and our official social media channels Facebook and Twitter. VIEW THE EVENT PAGE Rewatch the webinars on our YouTube channel Watch the recordings Yes it’s Open but is it any Good? Reflections on an Open Reading Initiative of Scholarly Research Monday, 7 March 2022, 10:00 CET This webinar focuses on the growth of open science and the plethora of open access scholarly publications in the area of digital education—for better and worse. It begins by reflecting on the 6th edition of the NIDL “top 10” good reads in the field of digital education. A panel discussion then considers the challenge of finding time to “slow” read the literature and shares critical strategies for keeping abreast of the rapidly evolving literature. Format: Panel discussion Moderator: Dr Eamon Costello Speakers: Professor Lesley Gourlay, Dr Melissa Bond, Professor Petar Jandrić, Professor Mark Brown Watch the recording Opening and Developing a European Community of Practice Monday, 7 March 2022, 13:00 CET The session celebrates the start of the work on the “Community of Practice” of the Digital Education Hub. As part of the European Commission’s initiative under the Digital Education Action Plan, a consortium of eleven European organisations, led by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), supports the development of an open, collaborative and cross-sectorial community of digital education stakeholders. EDEN is among the core partners. This session at the OEW will address several important questions to guide European digital education community development and will search for the answers on how this community could open and develop the European capital of knowledge through the Community of Practice. Format: Panel discussion Moderator: Timothy Read Speakers: Katharina Engel, Rasmus Benke-Åberg, Sandra Kučina Softic, Ignacio Atal, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Denis Whitelock, Airina Volungevičienė Watch the recording Democratizing research and science: Ways forward Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 13:00 CET In this session, we will reflect on how research and science are currently produced and discuss ways we could make them more inclusive, open, and democratic. In the first talk, Dr Jess Carr will talk about participatory and inclusive research with excluded communities. In the second talk, Dr Christothea Herodotou will talk about how technology can support democratic research by allowing non-professionals to set up their own studies. In the third talk, Prof Bart Rienties will discuss about open science and scholarship in relation to learning analytics, inviting attendees’ to share their thoughts and perspectives. Format: Presentations and discussion Moderator: Dr. Christothea Herodotu Speakers: Dr Jess Carr, Prof Bart Rienties, Dr. Christothea Herodotou Watch the recording Digital experiences in technical higher education Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 13:00 CET In this webinar we are going to focus on specific digital experiences from and for the technical higher education. In these pandemic times, the higher education community has been united in facing the challenges which arose and in finding the best solutions for the transition to online learning. The digital component of the education will remain even after the pandemic ends. Moreover, the digital component was already a key factor for many universities and specialists. Such specialists are going to share their experiences and good practices, from the mentoring and training of higher education professionals, using remote and virtual labs, integrating AI in education and all of this keeping the quality of the educational process in mind. Format: Presentations Moderator: Vlad Mihaescu Speakers: Diana Andone, Gustavo Alves, Daina Gudoniene, Igor Balaban Watch the recording How to become an open teacher? Thursday, 10 March 2022, 13:00 CET The teachers in school and higher education could take better advantage of the existing open educational resources (OER), as well as of co-creation learning content and curriculum through open professional collaboration of teachers, as well as co-creation of knowledge together with students, school and university community members. This session will be dedicated to discuss the enablers of teachers to become open educators, including digital competences needed to co-create and share digital content and OER, as well as the challenges for teachers’ opening up at schools and at universities. Format: Presentations Moderator: Airina Volungeviciene Speakers: Estela Daukšienė, Elena Trepulė. Elena Caldirola, Jochen Ehrenreich, António Moreira, Ana Balula, Sandra Vasconcelos Watch the recording Designing Future Skills-ready Future higher education: Why it Matters and What We can Do A Future Skills Apéro conversation with Gilly Salmon Thursday, 10 March 2022, 16:30 CET This Future Skills Apéro with world-renowned Professor Gilly Salmon is hosted by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers and Laura Eigbrecht. The conversation will focus on sharing insights from her work on transformation of higher education and feature spicy good anecdotes, examples and stories ‘between the lines’. We will ask Gilly Salmon why Future Skills matter, how we can promote them, what we can learn from education in times of the pandemic and how we can design future and Future Skills-ready higher education. Participants are invited to contribute to the discussion by bringing in their questions and impulses to the conversation. Format: Interactive Apéro discussion; possibility for participants to engage with questions in the conversation Moderators/Speakers: Gilly Salmon, Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Laura Eigbrecht Watch the recording Opening up Museums: how inclusive open education is transforming the museum experience Friday, 11 March 2022: 13:00 Either as a response to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis or a strategic move towards a more participatory culture, most museums worldwide are now providing open access online to a large amount of their curated digital heritage content. In order to promote collaboration and learning through co-creation, many opened up their online collections to social tagging, or started working with communities of volunteers to transcribe manuscript archives for digital publishing projects. Some others started crowdsourcing and crowdfunding initiatives. In this new context, Museum MOOCs and OERs have become popular tools and are now used in formal and non formal learning contexts as well as for professional development. As the learning experience becomes increasingly open, hybrid, ubiquitous and personalized, museum education comes to be more engaging, participatory and transformative, as well as more accessible and inclusive. Format: Experts panel Moderator: António Moreira Teixeira Speakers: Antonella Poce, Covadonga Rodrigo, Antonia Liguri, Angeles Sánchez Paniagua Watch the recording

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EDEN Open Education Week 2022, March 7-11

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Open Education Week kicking off March 7 – 11, 2022 Add to calendar Dear EDEN Members, Colleagues and Friends, EDEN is endorsing the acclaimed and traditional Open Education Week #OEWeek in 2022 as well. The 2022 EDEN OEW, as a celebration of the global Open Education Movement give you access to daily online webinars and panel sessions of expert scholars and practitioners who will present a variety of cutting edge open and online learning topics, from innovations in design to open educational research. Join us free – EDEN will issue open badges to acknowledge and appreciate your participation . REGISTER FOR THE EVENTS Yes it’s Open but is it any Good? Reflections on an Open Reading Initiative of Scholarly Research Monday, 7 March 2022, 10:00 CET This webinar focuses on the growth of open science and the plethora of open access scholarly publications in the area of digital education—for better and worse. It begins by reflecting on the 6th edition of the NIDL “top 10” good reads in the field of digital education. A panel discussion then considers the challenge of finding time to “slow” read the literature and shares critical strategies for keeping abreast of the rapidly evolving literature. Format: Panel discussion Moderator: Dr Eamon Costello Speakers: Professor Lesley Gourlay, Dr Melissa Bond, Professor Petar Jandrić, Professor Mark Brown Please click here for a more detailed description. Opening and Developing a European Community of Practice Monday, 7 March 2022, 13:00 CET The session celebrates the start of the work on the “Community of Practice” of the Digital Education Hub. As part of the European Commission’s initiative under the Digital Education Action Plan, a consortium of eleven European organisations, led by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), supports the development of an open, collaborative and cross-sectorial community of digital education stakeholders. EDEN is among the core partners. This session at the OEW will address several important questions to guide European digital education community development and will search for the answers on how this community could open and develop the European capital of knowledge through the Community of Practice. Format: Panel discussion Moderator: Timothy Read Speakers: Katharina Engel, Rasmus Benke-Åberg, Sandra Kučina Softic, Ignacio Atal, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Denis Whitelock, Airina Volungevičienė Please click here for a more detailed description. Democratizing research and science: Ways forward Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 13:00 CET In this session, we will reflect on how research and science are currently produced and discuss ways we could make them more inclusive, open, and democratic. In the first talk, Dr Jess Carr will talk about participatory and inclusive research with excluded communities. In the second talk, Dr Christothea Herodotou will talk about how technology can support democratic research by allowing non-professionals to set up their own studies. In the third talk, Prof Bart Rienties will discuss about open science and scholarship in relation to learning analytics, inviting attendees’ to share their thoughts and perspectives. Format: Presentations and discussion Moderator: Dr. Christothea Herodotu Speakers: Dr Jess Carr, Prof Bart Rienties, Dr. Christothea Herodotou Please click here for a more detailed description. Digital experiences in technical higher education Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 13:00 CET In this webinar we are going to focus on specific digital experiences from and for the technical higher education. In these pandemic times, the higher education community has been united in facing the challenges which arose and in finding the best solutions for the transition to online learning. The digital component of the education will remain even after the pandemic ends. Moreover, the digital component was already a key factor for many universities and specialists. Such specialists are going to share their experiences and good practices, from the mentoring and training of higher education professionals, using remote and virtual labs, integrating AI in education and all of this keeping the quality of the educational process in mind. Format: Presentations Moderator: Vlad Mihaescu Speakers: Diana Andone, Gustavo Alves, Daina Gudoniene, Igor Balaban Please click here for a more detailed description. How to become an open teacher? Thursday, 10 March 2022, 13:00 CET The teachers in school and higher education could take better advantage of the existing open educational resources (OER), as well as of co-creation learning content and curriculum through open professional collaboration of teachers, as well as co-creation of knowledge together with students, school and university community members. This session will be dedicated to discuss the enablers of teachers to become open educators, including digital competences needed to co-create and share digital content and OER, as well as the challenges for teachers’ opening up at schools and at universities. Format: Presentations Moderator: Airina Volungeviciene Speakers: Estela Daukšienė, Elena Trepulė. Elena Caldirola, Jochen Ehrenreich, António Moreira, Ana Balula, Sandra Vasconcelos Please click here for a more detailed description. Designing Future Skills-ready Future higher education: Why it Matters and What We can Do A Future Skills Apéro conversation with Gilly Salmon Thursday, 10 March 2022, 16:30 CET This Future Skills Apéro with world-renowned Professor Gilly Salmon is hosted by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers and Laura Eigbrecht. The conversation will focus on sharing insights from her work on transformation of higher education and feature spicy good anecdotes, examples and stories ‘between the lines’. We will ask Gilly Salmon why Future Skills matter, how we can promote them, what we can learn from education in times of the pandemic and how we can design future and Future Skills-ready higher education. Participants are invited to contribute to the discussion by bringing in their questions and impulses to the conversation. Format: Interactive Apéro discussion; possibility for participants to engage with questions in the conversation Moderators/Speakers: Gilly Salmon, Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Laura Eigbrecht Please click here for a more detailed description. Register and join us at the webinars! REGISTER FOR THE EVENTS

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