Openeducationeuropa (OEE) presentation with specific focus on the Opening up Education initiative. The European Commission launched Open Education Europa in September 2013 as part of the Opening up Education initiative to provide a single gateway to European OER. Open Education Europa is one of the #EDEN15 Annual Conference Media Partners. The OE initiative is presented in line with the EDEN 2015-2020 policy initiatives.

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EDEN Annual Conference 2015
Pre-conference Policy Session:
EDEN 2015-2020
Strategy and Services of the Association in the Light
of the EU 2020 Policy Aims
THE OPEN EDUCATION EUROPA PORTAL
Agnès Aguiló
9 June 2015, Barcelona

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Welcome to
openeducationeuropa.eu

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“We strongly believe the moment has come when
we can move to a society where
All individuals can learn
Anytime,
Anywhere,
using Any device
and with the support of Anyone”.
Xavier Prats-Monné
Deputy-Director General for Education and Culture

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Some achievements:
• Erasmus+, the Commission's funding programme for education now contains an
"Open Access Requirement." That means any educational materials that have been
produced with money from this programme have to be released under an open license
(as Open Educational Resources, OER.
• Erasmus+ also encourages partnerships between creators of educational content to
increase the supply of high quality OER in different languages.
• With the support of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS) we
have developed a digital competence framework for learners which has already been
taken up in many regions. Further frameworks will follow and IPTS will also develop
self-assessment tools for digital competences of learners, educators and institutions.
• Through work with the Member States we encourage education and training
institutions to include digital content, including OER, among the recommended
educational materials for learners across educational levels”
From the anniversary 2014 message from Xavier Prats-Monné
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6. Become the access point to
Open Education in Europe
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The openeducationeuropa.eu
aim is:

7. • A collaborative network of OE institutions
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openeducationeuropa.eu
NOT ONLY a website:
• A community of practitioners working together

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9. Open Education Europa: The Gateway
to European Innovative Learning
• The Open Education Europa portal is an online meeting place
for practitioners and educational institutions launched by the
European Commission as part of the Opening Up Education
initiative.
• The portal serves as a hub where learners, teachers, and
experts can come together to find relevant, credible open
resources and meaningful connections.
• It works in partnership with institutions and individuals, while
carefully validating and monitoring its content to provide
relevant, credible and up-to-date resources.
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10. • Showcases Open Education initiatives all over Europe
• Features a powerful search with intelligent filters so that the
users easily find what they are looking for
• Presents OER, courses and MOOCs in a stuctured way,
alongside the specific features that each require
• Offers a multilingual interface and multilingual content built
in collaboration with the best institutions in Europe
• It aims at all educational levels.
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openeducationeuropa.eu
highlighted features:

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12. What it is:
•A highly searchable, coherent and credible online resource
centre.
•It is built in close collaboration with participating institutions.
Key Features:
•Supports practitioners and learners.
•Creates visibility for institutions.
•Provides access to free Open Learning Programmes throughout
Europe
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http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/open_education_scoreboard

14. RSS harvesting institutions for OER
by end March 2015
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Institution
Edutags - Social Bookmarking für Lehrkräfte
Koolielu
METU OpenCourseWare
The Open University
Leeds Metropolitan University
Methodological portal RVP.CZ
The Nottingham University
Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes NRW
Lehrer-Online
Deutsche Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)
Université Ouverte des Humanités(UOH)
•Leeds Becket University
•Jorum
•Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes NRW, and also

15. EU OER Repositories overview
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The majority are mainly focused on offering OER
Different sizes: From 100 OERs to more than
300.000 published
Not all of them (but many) reference clearly the
Creative Commons license
Nearly none with user feedback/rating tools
Multilingual OER offered in some cases, even by
national repositories
Usually no reference to quality
No standardization: taxonomies, subjects, structure
Interest in sharing: Several repositories offer RSS
EU OER Repositories overview

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18. What it is:
• The portal’s main space for engaging the OE community of
practitioners to debate issues of common interest.
• A forum for stimulating exchange of experiences, best practices and
know-how.
Key Features
• Stimulates valuable user-generated content featuring blogs, discussion
groups and events, all linked to social media channels.
• Offers an up-to-date directory featuring profiles of current site
members.
• Fosters synergies and strategic partnerships among practitioners.
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19. For example:
•The METIS project group
•OER: Content creation offering
•Education in the Digital Era: quality of learning
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A virtual collaborative
space for you

20. Our newsletter:
IN-DEPTH
More than 30.000 subscribers
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22. What it is:
•An open platform to rethink education and skills.
•A meeting point for experts to come together and bring renewed
thinking to how innovation in Open Education will improve teaching and
learning.
Key Features
•Showcases portal content on Open Education, in the form of a virtual
Think Tank, with access to high-quality articles, and groundbreaking
research and innovation.
•Features the eLearning Papers the reference journal of the European
Commission’s elearningeuropa portal, and one of the most valued
scholarly journals on online learning.
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23. eLearning papers
MOOCs AND BEYOND
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eLearningpapers journal
eLearning papers 2015 topics are already addressing key issues of open
education:
•Nº 41: Innovation, entrepreneurship and education
•Nº 42: Design Patterns for Open Online Teaching and Learning
•Nº 43: Applied Games and Gamification – Drivers for Change (call for papers
open)
•Nº 44: Teacher-led Innovation and the teachers' role in the digital era
•Nº 45: Open publishing and digital scholarship

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