OEF: an openness framework for university professors
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The Open Educators Factory (OEF) project aims to build capacity for openness among higher education educators, emphasizing the need for educators to shift from resistance to becoming advocates for open education. The OEF framework provides tailored guidelines for educators based on their experience with Open Educational Resources (OER), and findings indicate that there are multiple entry points to openness, along with a significant link between openness and collaboration. Future initiatives include fostering the OEF platform's use, translating it into more languages, and exploring the effects of open culture on teaching practices.
OEF: an openness framework for university professors
- 1. The Open Educators Factory project: a framework for openness capacity building among HE educators OER Policy Forum 2 June 2017 Fabio Nascimbeni UNIR iTED
- 2. Rationale: why the OEF research The victory of Open Education (Weller 2014) • Policy: EC, ICDE, UNESCO all agree that OE is the way to go • Institutions: open initiatives in more and more universities • >350 institutions offering MOOCs vs The power of the Status Quo • Frontal teaching is often still the norm • OER are in an eternal “experimentation phase” • The MOOCs hype is settling down
- 3. Why change is so slow? What do we need? http://www.freakingnews.com/Snail-Pictures--1603.asp
- 4. We need a peaceful army of Open Educators. Educators (professors, tutors, lecturers) are the ones who should drive the change towards openness, they must must transform from agents of resistance into agents of change. https://it.pinterest.com/pin/545780048568142339/
- 5. The OEF framework Design Content Teaching Assessment Individual designer New to OER Traditional teacher Traditional evaluator Collaborative designer OER user Engaging teacher Innovative evaluator Open designer OER specialist Open teacher Open evaluator OPENNESS
- 6. By filling a short questionnaire… The OEF platform …the teacher is “positioned” in the different columns… …receives tailored guidelines… …and can go back to check his/her progresses.
- 7. A picture of openness capacity in Politecnico di Torino Design Content Teaching Assessment Individual designer 59 New to OER 60 Traditional teacher 94 Traditional evaluator 162 Collaborative designer 116 OER user 100 Engaging Teacher 80 Innovative evaluator 7 Open designer 7 OER specialist 22 Open teacher 8 Open evaluator 13 182 replies in total, data available through the OEF platform
- 8. Two main findings Openness has many “entry points” The relation between Openness and Collaboration is clear JRC,2016
- 9. Future of the project 1. Foster the use the OEF platform: the more data we get, the more useful the tool will be for the community 2. Translate the platform into other languages (RU, CH) 3. Next research phase on relation between Openness and Collaboration, investigating the impact of Open Culture (sharing) on teaching practices: “If you cannot convince teachers to be open, teach them how to network!”
- 10. This is an open research project http://wikieducator.org/Research/open_educators_factory http://rd.unir.net/pub/oef fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net
Editor's Notes
- #5: This means re-imagining their role from the owners of knowledge to critical friends, co-travellers, mediators, facilitators.