22/03/2017
Can Massive Open Online Courses offer support to refugees? Join the webinar 19 April
http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/open-education-for-refugees-optimizing-diversity-through-moocs/
Open education for refugees – Optimizing diversity through MOOCs
When: Wednesday 19 April, 15.00-16.00 CET Where: Online via Adobe Connect (link to the meeting room will be sent to all registered participants 1-2 days before the webinar) Register here! Refugees …
15/12/2016
New article on one of the core issues of Open Educational Ideas: Emotional Ownership and Educational Collaboration: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131516302470
Educators’ open educational collaboration online: The dilemma of emotional ownership
The open education movement has witnessed ups and downs from initial interest in transparency and openness, followed by a lack of reuse of open educational resources (OER) and the massive boost of interest in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This article addresses educators' online behaviors and...
25/08/2016
The European Commission (JRC in Seville) published a support framework for higher education institutions on how to open up education. Core are 10 dimension and the document gives practices and institutional policies for each of them.
07/07/2016
Open Educational Ideas mentioned as one class of Open Education artifacts - and as a great tool to increase connectivity between Europe and Asia - See the ASEF Outlook report published at the ASEM Meeting in Mongolia....
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) - ASEM Outlook Report 2012: Volume 2
This volume looks at the future of Asia-Europe relations after examining the current state-of-play in bi-regional relations in Volume 1, “Asia-Europe Relations at a Glance”.
04/03/2016
Open lab work for engineering/technical students - even across institutions? Read how in worked in Greece.
http://project.idea-space.eu/2016/03/04/collaborative-lab-assignments/
How Greek engineering students collaborate on lab assignments through an online platform
Technology and engineering in higher education requires hands-on training. Usually undergraduate students get hands-on experience through lab sessions that are supervised by postgraduate students. …
03/03/2016
To all OER advocates and practioners out there: This might be an inspiring read!
http://project.idea-space.eu/2016/03/02/oercamps/
Annual barcamps on OER – How an open event inspires open educational activities in Germany
The “open educational ideas and innovations (OEI2)” initiative promoted open collaboration already when ideas for OER development are being formed so that trust into the educational mat…
26/02/2016
Good practice for virtual mobility: How Higher Education lecturers co-created an online course for learners at their universities.
Might be interesting for all adult educators, because the full course plan on "Concepts of adult education" is shared openly.
http://project.idea-space.eu/2016/02/26/virtual-mobility-course-adult-education/
Co-creating a virtual mobility course on adult education for Master students
The “open educational ideas and innovations (OEI2)” initiative has worked towards a better uptake of OER and increased engagement among educators and learners. We promoted open collabor…
26/02/2016
Do you have an educational initiative in mind, that you would like to kick-off some day - big or small, but open for sure ( )? Have you considered to share your rough idea openly? Here are 9 tips that will help to make it work.
http://project.idea-space.eu/2016/02/25/successful-idea-sharing/
Successful idea sharing for open education and innovation – 9 key statements
When we start building new OERs in a collaborative manner or start thinking about educational innovations with our peers to revolutionize education, we naturally want the collaborative effort to be…
24/02/2016
Would it work at your institution, too? Read how student assignments were openly co-created also engaging external learners/educators resulting in useful OER for business and management. Good practice at Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University :-)
http://project.idea-space.eu/2016/02/24/oer-case-studies-for-international-management/
OERs for international management – Case studies co-created by learners and educators at the...
One of the main target groups of Open Educational Ideas are students and lecturers in higher education. Among those it is still uncommon to openly share classroom work with other students or collea…
23/02/2016
See how educators joined forces to create a course on programming for first graders. Feel free to share and join further steps.
http://project.idea-space.eu/2016/02/12/good-practice-open-course-development/
Open course development in the idea space: programming for first graders
The “open educational ideas and innovations (OEI2)” initiative has worked towards a better uptake of OER and increased engagement among educators and learners. We promoted open collabor…