ICT Role in 21st Century Education & its Challenges.pptx
Linq 2013 session_blue_2_poerup
1. POERUP: Summary of progress
Ms Ildikó Mázár
Project Manager, EDEN
LINQ13 16-17 May 2013, Rome
2. The aim of the POERUP project
To develop policies to promote the uptake of
OER (Open Educational Resources) in the
educational sector to promote
• Wider access (in particular from developing
countries)
• Higher quality of teaching
• Lower cost of teaching
3. Focus of the project
• Universities
• Schools
• …and paying attention to the non-tertiary
post-secondary subsector (the ‘colleges’), as
they are often loci of the kind of informal
learning that OER facilitates and this sector is
crucial to skills development
4. Selecting countries for study
• Not all in Europe – with some notable exceptions, many
European countries are not yet active in OER
• Only highlights from the USA – ever-changing and too much
to document fully
• Outside Europe, concentrated on countries with linguistic,
cultural or political links with countries in Europe
• Liaised with organisations such as IPTS, UNESCO IITE
Moscow, OER U/WikiEducator, CommOER/Wikipedia & OER
Asia to avoid duplication of countries being studied in other
projects
5. First round of country studies
Country reports Mini reports
Australia Argentina
Belgium Denmark
Canada Finland
France Greece
Hungary Gulf States (3)
Italy Mexico
New Zealand Norway
Poland Portugal
The Netherlands Romania
UK South Africa
USA Spain
Sweden
Thailand
6. Seven case studies of OER communities
• Three schools-focussed projects:
– Wikiwijs (Netherlands);
– Bookinprogress (Italy);
– Hwb (Wales) – dropped out
• Three HE-focussed projects:
– OER U;
– Futurelearn (UK) – not certain;
– Canadian OER HE community
• One MOOC-based project to cover informal adult learning
7. Policy focus
• Original focus was at ‘national’ level (including
governments of devolved administrations)
• But in the increasingly regionalised and part-
privatised education environment, it is now
felt more appropriate to focus on policies for
institutions, consortia and private sector
change facilitators
8. Policy formulation
Although not scheduled until the second half
of the project, requirements from EU entities
(including IPTS and the Open Education
Experts Group), UNESCO and some national
governments have meant that policy work
started in June 2012 and is continuing
throughout 2013.
9. Dissemination in 2012
• Presentations at EFQUEL Innovation Forum (Granada, September 2012) :
http://www.scoop.it/t/efquel-innovation-forum-
2012/p/2637646411/poerup-slides-for-grainne-conole-s-double-act-with-
rory-mcgreal-at-eif2012 and – http://www.scoop.it/t/efquel-innovation-
forum-2012/p/2612219194/alternative-models-of-formal-education-
delivery-paul-bacsich
• Online and face-to-face workshop at EDEN Research Workshop (Leuven,
October 2012): http://www.slideshare.net/witthaus/poerup-presentation-
for-eden-22-oct-2012
• Multi-project workshop on OER at Online Educa (Berlin, December 2012):
http://www.slideshare.net/pbacsich/oeb-oerwspoerupbacsich
10. Dissemination: January – June 2013
• POERUP track at OER13 (Nottingham, March 2013)
http://www.ucel.ac.uk/oer13/index.html
• OCWC Conference, Bali (Indonesia), 8-10 May 2013
http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/index.php/2013/2013
• Learning Innovations and Quality (LINQ 2013), Rome, 13-14 May
2013 http://www.learning-innovations.eu/2013/calls/call-for-
projects
• JISC RSC Webinar to the Wales OER community on “OER – an
international view”, 24 May 2013
• EDEN conference, Oslo, 12-15 June 2013 – http://www.eden-
online.org/eden-events/2013-annual-conference.html (POERUP
workshop)
