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Getting started with Open Education: Everything you need to know to begin open education

projects at your institution

Research in Open EducationEdmundo Tovar

edmundo.tovar@upm.es

OpenCourseWare in the European HE context

opencourseware.eu with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA23 - 25 April 2014

Quality as the challenge

Four dimensions: 1. Teaching and Learning Processes 2.Information and Material Content 3. Presentation, Product and Format 4. System, Technical and Technology

Quality as the challenge

• To improve the accesibility, discoverability , share, use and reuse of OER and educational data through emergent web technologies.

• Vision: OER shared and accesible to all and open data linked

Mission of our research group:GICAC UPM-UTPL

Openness

Linked Data

Heterogeneity leads to problems of interoperability and accessibility of open content among institutions and within them.

The lack of interoperability shows some disadvantages in the discovery, reuse, re-mix and adaptation of OER.

#sophia

Educational content

Open licenses

data in machine format

OPEN: "A piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it” http://www.opendefinition.org/okd

OER semanticbased on LinkedData approach

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Figure: Overview of conceptual map about general structure of OCW

LOCWD Vocabulary Modeling

Common data available from OCW websites are: title, knowledge area, open educational materials, open licenses, repositories, higher education institutions, content creators, fields of knowledge, learning guides, licenses, accessibility conformance, and others

Guided navigation Previews of Results

Refine search

Add keywordsWith Serendipity Explore OCW in an integrated and incremental manner, from any of the repositories of institutions that publish OpenCourseWare.

Facets

Share this OCW

Inspect current OCW

Refine your search

Access the full description of the courses as published by the home institution, along with complimentary information such as language, license, author, country, geographic location of the institution and other semantically related information available via the Web.

Propose change

Link current OCW to

Other LinkedData Source

Openness

Linked Data & Visualization

Serendipity POIs use icons to represent different categories of POI on a map graphically. A point of interest, or POI, is a OER specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting.

Serendipity POIs - Open data contains valuable information that will drive insights, innovations, and discoveries, but it can be difficult to access and digest. Using data visualization, we’re simplify the complexity and drive a deeper understanding of the open educational context.

Impact on end-users

Social Network Analysis

Current state: folksonomiesNorth America

Most influential tags

Network information

potential state: tags and authors

Current researches

• A recommender system using social relationships and SNA, to improve the finding and reuse of news OER

• A framework for discovery and recommendation of open educational resources by self-learners

• Integrating OER in MOOC context using Linked Data technologies

• A framework for promoting the quality associated to the lifecyle of OER.

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Thanks!

Partners• Delft University of Technology• Universidad Politécnica Madrid• Universitat de Barcelona• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven• Université de Lyon, VetAgro Sup• OpenCourseWare Consortium• Creative Commons

opencourseware.eu with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

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