Enhancing education through open opportunities

Overview

What is Open Education offering to the global learning and teaching community through its resources (OER)? How can Open Educational Practices (OEP) support didactic activities?

How can examples from practitioners worldwide inspire you? How can openly licenced reusable documents - in editable formats - allow you to adopt, adapt and remix them consistently with your students’ intended learning outcomes?

How can Open Education Policies support a sustainable future for education? What is going on at the global level to connect Climate Change initiatives, Open Science movements and Open Education?

What does “creating something prioritising reuse by others” as your top goal look like? This MOOC aims to help practitioners, instructional designers, teachers and librarians build on their existing knowledge and skills, thanks to reusable opportunities coming from open education examples in different fields and at different levels.

It aims to inspire them with a diverse range of experiences:

we invite participants to dig deeper into those examples that relate more directly to their contextual needs. After attending this MOOC, participants are invited to consider approaching and dialoguing with decision-makers to experiment with open solutions, and through them, ignite and fasten change for a better impact on shared societal challenges.

For a wider diffusion of the course, learning materials including texts, infographics, diagrams and videos were translated from Italian to English through Artificial Intelligence software. Therefore, they may contain inaccuracies.

Syllabus

• Week 1 - Zoom in: Open Educational Practices, situated
• Week 2 - Zoom out: a global effort built thanks to multiple local focuses
• Week 3 - Why OE? Why now?
• Week 4 - How to reuse and adapt this MOOC

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Taught by

Paola Corti and Susanna Sancassani

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Subjects

Science