Author - prof. Nijolė Burkšaitienė, Mykolas Romeris University.

1. Open Professional Collaboration
for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
#OCCKaunas17
Results from the session on HE:
Flexibility of HE through Open
Learning

2. The main discussion questions:
1. What are the possibilities of accredition for micro
credentials in HE? (Raimund Hudak)
2. What would successful Open Learning policy be for HE?
(Mark Brown)
3. How can Learning Analytics improve teaching and
learning in HE? (Josep M. Duar)
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
Organisers
#OCCKaunas17

3. The main discussion questions (2):
4. What skills are required for the use Open Educational
Resources in HE? (Judit Vidékiné Reményi)
5. Are we ready to recognise Open learning in HE?
(Margarita Teresevičienė)
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17

4. Q 1:
• THE EU Recommendation stipulates that international
organisations should torelate the
CREDENTIALS/BADGES
• Project MicroHE: a consortium has been created;
standardised model for micro credentials has been
created
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17 Results from the session

5. • Do employers accept micro credentials? Some do,
some do not, it depends on the region
• Is it necessary to think about them in all other
sectors of education?
• Yes, it’s relevant, especially, in lifelong learning
• In the future - to focus on HE - to find standards,
processes in HE for recognition of micro credentials.
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17 Results from the session

6. Q 2:
• Are there many successful Open learning policies? -
Very few. Example of success – Dublin City University:
‘Walking the talk’
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17
Results from the session

7. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17
Results from the session
Aspects to be discussed:
• Terminology: policy vs strategy
• Definition: it‘s not a ‘thing, but rather a
process operating on the national or EU
level’ (M. Brown)
• Its place: embedded or separate

8. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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Results from the session
• In more mature institutions - strategies are embedded
• It‘s both a policital & financial decision
• A strategy may get lost if it‘s embedded
• Policy may be both enabling & constraining. Enabling
ones should be supported
• The importance of the student voice – it‘s both a goal & a
challenge

9. Q 3:
• Can Learning Analytics improve learning & teaching? –
Yes! (Open University in Catalonia)
• Definition: it‘s measurement, collection & analysis of
data about learners, learning contexts
• The aim: to understand & optimize learning
environments in which learning occurs
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17
Results from the session

10. • How to? To analyse not only Big Data!
• Learning Analytics enables learner profiling, which leads
to establishing areas that call for action, e.g. high levels
of early dropouts
• The result - managing high levels of early dropouts from
university studies
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17
Results from the session

11. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17
Results from the session
Q 4:
• OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCE LITERACY is important
• Skills required by young students (future engineers &
economies): digital study skill, media & digital literacy, visual education
skills

12. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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Results from the session
Q 4:
• Skills required by students-teachers (those who earned their
1st degrees 30 years ago; turned to teaching & were enrolled
in MA in Teaching): digital literacy (to locate (re)use, organise & share OER);
communication skills, including skills of English for EAP & translation; special
pedagogical literacy (to establish the tools to be used for teaching their subjects);
materials design & development expertise

13. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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Results from the session
Q 5:
• Are we ready to recognise open education? – Yes & no.
• Yes - on the political level
• On the level of education providers: they have to formally
recognize learning outcomes gained through open
education

14. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17
Results from the session
Q 5:
• Challenges that education providers face are related to:
 Quality assurance of Open Learning
 Informative certificates / badges acknowledging learning
 Supervised assessment - do we trust it? The learner’s ID – are
we sure who the assessed person is? - E.signature, passport –
are they used?

15. Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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Results from the session
Q 5:
 Partnership & collaboratin, including stakeholders
 Award of credits – what kind are they ? Are they in line with the
EU and / or national qualification frameworks?
• Benefits:
 Exemption from part of the course
 Exemption from the whole course

16. Thank you 
Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom
November 9-10, 2017
Kaunas, Lithuania
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#OCCKaunas17