open educational policies and practices in the spanish national distance education university: uned...
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In this talk we present an overview of the experience with open educational resources in UNED Abierta , the OER Programme at UNED, Spain. We analyze some lessons learned, related specially to the MOOC phenomenon, run in our case in UNED COMA.TRANSCRIPT
Open educational policies and practices in the Spanish National Distance Education University: UNED Abierta (UNED OER
programme)Inés Gil-Jaurena
(Director UNED Abierta)
© 2014 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference 2014:Open Education for a Multicultural World.
Ljubljana, Slovenia 23 - 25 April 2014
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UNED• Largest Spanish university• Created in 1972• More than 250,000 students in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education programs
• Produces OERs since its creation:• Video and radio programmes• Open access scientific journals• Institutional repository• Video lessons, self-produced by faculty and tutors and/or
produced in the UNED regional centres• Open courses, managed by UNED Abierta
UNED Abierta| © 2014 UNED
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UNED Abierta (OER Programme)• Created in 2012 in the Vice-rectorate for Continuing Education
and Lifelong Learning• Intends to make visible all the OERs produced at UNED and
promote their creation and use• Management of UNED MOOCs, OpenCourseWare, iTunes U and
access to other open resources at UNED• UNED Abierta is based on openness, equity and quality
education for all• Open and distance education universities’ social mission of
facilitating access to higher education to everyone can be better fulfilled if OERS are a core
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UNED MOOCs
• x-MOOCs• Cognitive-behaviorist pedagogy• Rely primarily on information transmission (videos), computer
marked assignments and peer assessment• Each course differs: some are content focused (have more
videos), some are social focused (interaction through debates, social networks), …
• Professors main motivation: explore and experiment diverse pedagogical models
• Run in our own platform• Different certification options
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UNED MOOCs
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UNED Abierta: some figures
2012-13 Number of courses
Number of visits/users
OCW UNED 51 611,322 visits
iTunes U UNED
36 (10 courses
and 26 collections)
136,722 visits
129,345 downloads
50,311 subscribers
UNED MOOCs
22 139,517 users
210,000 course registrations
• OCW: 2007• iTunes U: 2012 • UNED MOOCs: 2013
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UNED Abierta: results
• Great expectation: • high number of students registered, impact in media,
internal demand• Students profile:
• women, with higher education studies, working or unemployed (no full-time students), Spanish, 25-35 years, not previous students at UNED
• Completion rates (mean):• 70% start the course
• 20% of those complete the course• 20% of those get credential/certificate
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UNED Abierta: lessons learned
• Quality control, beyond quantity (focus in the first stages)• Need for institutional reflection about the role of “open”• Integration into mainstream processes is not fully
addressed• Access to educational content should be available
(MOOCs are not, so the videos are in UNED channel in YouTube)
• Information about students profiles, learning process they follow and opinion about MOOCs are needed
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UNED Abierta: future steps
• Integration: new MOOCs related to• continuing education programs (masters)• courses 101, cross-curricular competences• research projects
• Courses with a special innovative approach either in methodology, pedagogical design, social learning, etc.
• Credit recognition in UNED study programs• Promotion of OERs at UNED regular programs: creation,
use, adaptation• Collaboration with researchers at UNED and other
institutions
Thank you for your attention!
Spanish National Distance Education UniversityUNED Abierta (UNED OER programme)
www.uned.es/unedabierta
@UNEDAbierta
OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference 2014:Open Education for a Multicultural World.
Ljubljana, Slovenia 23 - 25 April 2014
UNED Abierta| © 2014 UNED