Webinar-OEWeek 2015

“The impact of Open Education on internationalisation models of universities”

Thursday 12 March 2015, h 15.00 CET

Question 1:

Do you collaborate internationally?

(I bet you do)

Question 2:

Do you implement Open Education?

(even Obama does)

Question 3:

Do you believe that HE (international)

collaboration can be empowered by Open

Education?

(eMundus does)

Who we are

MENON

Network BE

Leicester U.

UK

U. La Rioja

ES

Fundação de Apoio

a Universidade de

São Paulo - BR

U Autonoma Metropolitana MX

Open Educational Resources - OER Foundation NZ

Athabasca U -CA

Universitas Siswa Bangsa IN

Moscow U Economics, Statistics & Informatics- RU

The eMundus focus

Open education

HE cooperation

Project vision

Open Education is not a solution to the challenges of reducing the unitary cost of higher education

but rather

a way to help establish long-term international partnership, aiming for an open international setting where universities

cooperate based on their capacity not only to attract international students but to meaningfully work together and

share experiences.

What we are doing

Classic international education

• Students “in” and students “out”

• Teaching some students another language

• Relevant only to certain types of institutions, disciplines, and students

• Central neither to the institution nor to student learning

• A scattered set of disparate activities

A changing environment

• Massification of HE

• greater student mobility across nations

• Increased use of ICT

• Need to educate students for global competence

• Spread of excellent institutions worldwide

• Rise of regional/global networks & rankings

• Increased need to generate income from tuition

• …

New approaches

• “integrating an international and intercultural dimension into the teaching, research and service functions of an institution” (Knight 1994)

• “integrating an international perspective … to respond and adapt to an increasingly diverse, globally focused, ever-changing external environment “ (Ellingboe, 1998)

• “the wise, informed, and responsible engagement of students, faculty, staff, and the institution itself in the global networks that shape us all” (IUPUI 2008)

• “constructing forums through which we bring different international perspectives into genuine and serious dialogue, rise above ourselves, better understand the world as a whole, and collaborate for mutual transformation.” (Sutton 2013)

The eMundus contribution

Is Open Education (MOOCs, Virtual Mobility, OER, OEP, etc) having an impact on international collaboration among

universities?

OE and transformational partnerships

Open Education can facilitate the creation of what Sutton calls transformational partnerships, which are collaborations able to

“develop common goals and projects over time in which resources are combined and partnerships are expansive, ever-

growing, and relationship-oriented” (Sutton 2010).

OE and transformational partnerships

Activities of a transformational partnership

Potential impact of Open Education

Resources sharing By using OER, resources sharing between and among universities is made easier (IPR, searchability, language and cultural adaptation).

Collaborative curriculum development Open Educational Practices facilitate networked curriculum developments

Students and staff continuous mobility Virtual mobility contributes to “structural” exchanges

Joint promotion Through MOOCs platform and by sharing resources, collaborative promotion is made easier

Joint research By adopting Open Science approaches, research collaboration is made easier

OE-enhanced international collaboration

OER contextualisation and adaptation (Supported by agreements around open copyright licences )

Transnational Networked Curricula and Virtual Mobility schemes among universities, as the ones presented in the Being Mobile report and in the NetCuproject by EADTU;

Joint degrees based and OER, with international recognition of OE degrees

Accreditation of informal learning using OER, as the OERuniversitas.

Joint promotion through MOOCs platforms, such as the European OpenUpEdu initiative or the UK Futurelearn.

International research projects on Open Education, such as the OPAL project or the VM-Pass project.

Expertise sharing on OER through training and knowledge transfer, as REA Brasil

Thanks

www.emundus-project.eu

fabio.nascimbeni@menon.org