Open Education Sample Clauses

Open Education developing vision and policy Based on the insights gained during the workshops, below we offer a number of recommendations to higher education institutions wishing to develop a vision or policy on open and online education. A conclusion often drawn during the strategic workshops is that higher education institutions must take both a bottom-up and a top-down approach to open and online education. Experiments both in and outside the classroom are useful in order to gain experience and explore the possibilities offered by OER. However, experiments alone are insufficient if there is no context being created in which to implement and record the results. To create a vision and policy on OE, institutions must ask themselves a number of questions. For example: Why and to what extent do we wish to participate? What are the priorities? How is open and online education related to other topics on our educational agenda? How will OE help to strengthen our ‘core business’? What resources do we need? And so on. ‘Open’ as an ice-breaker - Erasmus University Rotterdam ‘The strategic workshop was a good point of departure for getting the subject of open and online education onto the agenda at Erasmus University Rotterdam’, says Xxxxxx Xxxxx, director of the EUR Risbo research institute. ‘In recent years our focus has been mainly on improving study success. The workshop had nearly forty participants, including representatives from all EUR faculties and support services, who learned a lot about the current developments in the field of open online education.’ Another aim of the workshop, in addition to providing information, was to generate a list of ideas on open and online education among stakeholders at EUR and to generate discussion. The ideas among the various target groups turned out to correspond in many respects. ‘EUR needs to do something with open and online education. There are opportunities available such as attracting new target groups, especially international students and course participants for postgraduate programmes’, summarisesBaars. The workshop was one of the building blocks that led to a draft policy document describing the multi-year plan for EUR. Although the document still needs to be evaluated by various bodies, the plan is expected to go ahead. EUR is taking an approach that includes more than just open online education, however. Over the next two years, the entire university will be experimenting with the opportunities offered by online learning, in...