Use of OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility Scenarios for Madrid workshop by Edmundo Tovar and Sophie Touzé.

1. Use of OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility
Scenarios
(Workshop OpenCourseware and Student Mobility)
Edmundo Tovar
edmundo.tovar@upm.es
Sophie Touzé
OpenCourseWare in the European HE context
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2. Best Practices using OER/OCW
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3. BUT
Full potential of OERs vs mobility is not
reached
• The design of scenarios should help
universities analyse the opportunities
and the barriers to the mobility using
OER module-based learning.

4. OER «Erasmus»
«Use procedures as in your student
exchange programmes»
http://www.oer-europe.net/

5. Guidelines
Handbook
Cartoon
Clip

6. Scenarios for guidelines
Phase 1
Methodology

7. Combining with
apprenticeship
Managing apprenticeship
& mobility
Scenarios for guidelines
Phase 2

8. Open Education for
Successfull Mobility
studentCHOOSE
1. Teaser course
2.Language
course
3.Bridging
4. Cultural
6.Open study community
9.Virtual mobility
8. Lifelong learning
10. Professional
trainings
5.Context to course7. Credit transfer
Or ...
Virtual Mobility Student Cycle

9. Open Education for
Successfull Mobility
teacherPROMOTE
1. Teaser course
2.Language
course
3.Bridging
4. Cultural
6.Open study community
9.Virtual mobility
8. Community of
Lifelong learners
10. Professional
trainings
5.Context to course
7. Credit transfer
Double degree
Or ...
Virtual Mobility Teacher Cycle

10. Open Education for
Successfull Mobility
InstitutionPROMOTE
1. Teaser course
2.Language
course
3.Bridging
4. Cultural
6.Open study community
9.Virtual mobility
8. Community of
Lifelong learners
10. Professional
trainings
5.Context to course
7. Credit transfer
Double degree
Or ...
Virtual Mobility Institutional Cycle

11. 1. Teaser courses
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• Pre-enrollment courses for a subject
• Advantages:
– Promotion of subjects
– Discloses the difficulty level of the material
– Facilitates students selecting subjects in their Learning Agreement
– Students acquire background knowledge

12. 1. Teaser courses. OCW to facilitate
physical – virtual mobility – experiences
at center of interactions
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• OCW allows student interaction
• Advantages:
– Raising interest in certain material, program or professor
– Coexistance between virtual and in-person education
– Allows following online lessons from other universities
– Native students can help other students ´´virtually´´

13. 1. Teaser courses. OCW for content
learning ahead of time
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• OCW aimed to break the emotional barriers involving
mobility.
• Advantages:
– Encourage students to make mobility periods
– Bringing students closer to the new educational institution
– Reduce emotional obstacles to a mobility period
– The student can compare universities or evaluate materials 
Increased confidence

14. 2. Language OCW – support for language
learning = vocabulary building
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• OCW helps acquiring communication skills in a language
• Advantages prior to mobility:
– Helps students to meet admission requirements of the chosen
University.
– Facilitates academic and cultural integration in the chosen University
• Advantages during mobility:
– Support in the development of the language.
• Virtual Mobility: only applies if you are looking to learn the
language

15. 3. Bridging. Admission
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• OCW required for admission to a program that requires
mobility.
• Advantages:
– The professor ensures homogeneity of knowledge among students in
the program.
– Filter admission to a particular program.
– Students acquire essential knowledge prior to mobility

16. 4. Cultural/practical information (new
country, new institution)
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• OCW facilitating cultural integration and the new way of life in
the new educational center.
• Advantages:
– Facilitates stay during mobility
– Adaptation into the new educational environment
• Virtual Mobility: Fostering intercultural communication

17. 5. OCW for transparency/comparison –
credit transfer
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• OCW that facilitates credit recognition
• Advantages:
– More accurate and objective credits assessment.
– Facilitates collaboration between professors in the centers of origin
and destination.
– Facilitates the international academic and research networking

18. 6. New assessment + methodologies –
business/companies give professional
credits
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• Professional courses with labor market recognition
• Advantages:
– Approaching to the labor market.
– Specific knowledge for adaptation to the professional environment.
– There is no need to attend classroom courses in a company or an
institution.

19. 7. Open environment can maintain
bond to home university
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• OCW facilitates the communication between institutions
• Advantages:
– Possibility of virtual community among institutions
– Improved relationships between institutions
– Facilitates mobility plan of the institutions
– Students can maintain their communication with the home university

20. Examples
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Mario is the ECTS coordinator at Computer
Science College – UPM, Spain. He is in
charge of the evaluation of the courses
content his students could take at host
institutions, in order approve and to include
them in the Learning Agreement.
He has always the same problem: a lot of
times it is not possible to know in advance
the courses content his students want to
take at host institution, sometimes because
this information is not available on the web
site or sometimes because the information
is not updated. If the information is not
available it may happen that at best the
Learning agreement needs to be changed
later and at worst the course will not be
validated at home university.
But Mario finds out that some universities
have their materials open, what helps him
to know previously the accuracy of the
contents, the objective assessment of the
credits and the gradated system used. This
information allows the coordinator to sign
the students’ Learning Agreement with total
confidence and guarantee. The OCW
materials definitely help Mario to improve
the future recognition of the courses the
students take at host institutions.
Moreover, Mario starts collaboration with
other teachers involved in the same topic he
is working in. They are planning to create an
international research group in a near
future.
OCW for transparency/comparison – credit transfer

21. Examples
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OCW for transparency/comparison – credit transfer

22. Examples
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OCW for transparency/comparison – credit transfer

23. Examples
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Oskar studies Computer Science and
Mathematics at the Technische Universität
Dresden (TUD), Germany. He found that
UPM, Spain, offers OCW courses in several
areas of his interest. He decides to follow
one of these courses as self-leaner. He gets
in contact to the professor. When he
finished the course his feelings about the
experience were really happy with the
materials, the knowledge he got and the
relationship with the teacher.
Now Oskar is thinking about the possibility
to spend a study period abroad and as he
can speak Spanish and he has good
memories from his OCW experience, he is
thinking to apply to Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid (UPM), Spain, as ERASMUS
student. He has been informed by his home
university that there is an agreement
between TUD and UPM, so he decides to
apply for the exchange for next semester.
Oskar has been admitted to spend a
semester within ERASMUS programme at
UPM. He is following the courses at UPM,
but at the same time he needs to follow a
course at his home university. As his
university also offers OCW courses he
decides to register one OCW course at TUD
while stay at UPM. He can combine both
activities during his stay in Spain.
At the end of the semester Oskar has
successfully accomplished UPM courses and
OCW course at TUD and when he will come
back home he will get his courses validated,
both the UPM and the OCW ones.
OCW to facilitate physical - virtual mobility - experiences at center of interactions

24. Examples
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OCW to facilitate physical - virtual mobility - experiences at center of interactions

25. Examples
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Elena studies Computer Science at the
Polytechnic University of Madrid. She is
interested in study a very specific course at
TUM, but to register the course it is
mandatory to have deep knowledge in the
area of () and at least she has got a
minimum number of credits in the topic.
She is worried because at this time it is not
possible for her to accomplish this
requirement at home.
Elena has not time to acquire the requested
knowledge within formal lectures in order
for her to be admitted at TUM. She find out
that TUM offers OCW courses in the field
she needs to improve, so she thought that if
she take this course in parallel to her studies
and go on till summer, she will likely get the
knowledge and the credits required at TUM.
She checks if she would be admitted at TUM
taking this OCW course. The answer from
TUM is positive.
Therefore Elena registers in OCW course and
combines her formal studies at home
university with this OCW course in order to
finish in summer just on time the
application deadline at TUM.
Elena sends her application to TUM
including the results of the OCW course. She
is eager to get the admission although she is
a bit nervous. She gets the letter of
admission from TUM to take the specific
course she wants to deep in.
Finally, in Germany, Elena does not have
understanding problems to proper follow
the course because her knowledge about
the topic is really high and thus is allows her
to get a high mark in the course.
Bridging

26. Examples
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Bridging

27. Examples of Guidelines for the Use of
OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility
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28. Mobility Case – Scenario 2: Language OCW
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Juan studies Computer Science at the
Polytechnic University of Madrid. He
has always liked Italian language, so he
decides to enroll his final year from
undergraduate studies in Rome. He is
worried that his Italian is not enough to
pass the courses he needs in order to
graduate.
As Juan, does not have much time to
take courses where attendance is
mandatory, and require pre-established
schedule, he chooses to take some
OCW Italian courses offered by the
University where he is going to study
next year.
During the summer, Juan is dedicated
to learn the language gradually through
the different levels of the materials
that make up the courses.
When he is ready to travel to Italy, Juan
is feeling so much confident, calm and
assertive, as he is convinced that
because of what he has learned, the
linguistic limitations will be minimal.
Finally, in Italy, Juan does not have
communication problems. Social
relations are made simpler, and he is
able to understand the lessons taught
in college. Juan will end his
undergraduate studies in Italy with
high marks.

29. Mobility Case – Scenario 2: Language OCW
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• Didactics, learning styles , modular design
– Analyze OCW user profile  student of Computer Science
– Create generic Italian course
– Create submodels of courses as user profile  Italian Course with
specific computer science (techical) vocabulary.

30. Mobility Case – Scenario 2: Language OCW
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• Added value of OCW:
– Creating virtual communities where students help and support
eachother  Italian students resolve doubts to foreign students and
correct their work
– Creating videos in Italian by native and foreign students  Juan makes
a video in Italian about an assignment, and can compare it with those
of native students and have it corrected by them.

31. Teaser
courses
Language
OCW
Bridging
Cultural
information
Emotional
aspects
Transparency
/comparison
ects
Which of the scenarios do you consider feasible in
your institution?
Companies
professional
credits
Bond to
home
university
Localization

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