2018
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 | Lorenz, Anja; Muuß-Merholz, Jöran: An Award for Open Educational Resources – an innovative approach to defining quality in OER. Beitrag auf der Open Education Global Conference (OER Global), Delft, 24.04.2018. @misc{lorenz18oeglobal3,
title = {An Award for Open Educational Resources – an innovative approach to defining quality in OER},
author = {Anja Lorenz and Jöran Muuß-Merholz},
url = {http://joeran.de/oeglobalawards/
http://sched.co/DpZv},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-24},
urldate = {2018-03-22},
address = {Delft},
abstract = {o promote the efforts of practioners in the field OER to a wider public, the German OER-Award has been granted for the first time as part of the OER-Festival in February 2016. Elected by a jury of OER experts, there was not only an OER-Award in several educational field, but also in special domains. The second OER-Awards will have been granted in November 2017 following the collaboratively-designed process to identify deserving nominees and winners.
The presentation describes the short history of the German OER-Awards including changes that has been made for the second edition. Next to best practices also the challenges will be discussed. Finally, we will welcome your feedback to improve the process for the 3rd edition of our OER-Awards.},
howpublished = {Beitrag auf der Open Education Global Conference (OER Global)},
keywords = {OER-Award, OERde, OERde16, OERde17, open educational ressources (OER)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}
o promote the efforts of practioners in the field OER to a wider public, the German OER-Award has been granted for the first time as part of the OER-Festival in February 2016. Elected by a jury of OER experts, there was not only an OER-Award in several educational field, but also in special domains. The second OER-Awards will have been granted in November 2017 following the collaboratively-designed process to identify deserving nominees and winners.
The presentation describes the short history of the German OER-Awards including changes that has been made for the second edition. Next to best practices also the challenges will be discussed. Finally, we will welcome your feedback to improve the process for the 3rd edition of our OER-Awards. |
| Muuß-Merholz, Jöran; Fabri, Blanche: 10 years EduCamps, 6 years OERcamps: Transforming Education through Open Conference Formats. Beitrag auf der Open Education Global Conference (OER Global), Delft, 24.04.2018. @misc{mm2018oeglobal,
title = {10 years EduCamps, 6 years OERcamps: Transforming Education through Open Conference Formats},
author = {Jöran Muuß-Merholz and Blanche Fabri},
url = {http://joeran.de/oeglobalbarcamps/
http://sched.co/DpZl},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-24},
urldate = {2018-05-07},
address = {Delft},
abstract = {Barcamps represent an unconference format with a common theme but without pre-planned programme. The session schedule is designed collaboratively at the beginning of each (un-)conference day. In Germany there are several barcamps in the field of education. Two of them will be highlighted from the position of members of their organising teams. “Educamps” on digital media in education started in 2008 and have since taken place 21 times. “OERcamps” on Open Educational Resources started in 2012 and have since taken place 9 times.
A recent review of OER-related activities in Germany on behalf of UNESCO (Orr, Neumann, Muuß-Merholz 2017, 8) found: “Since OER activities are mostly driven bottom-up, there has been a need for sharing questions, experiences and materials between players, who have been isolated in their own institutions. These players found opportunities for sharing in cross-sector events and communities. Especially the barcamp/unconference format turned out to fit tremendously well developing a strong German OER community. Indeed, Germany so far has seen a remarkably strong cross-sector community with common interest in OER.”
Barcamps open up new and contemporary formats for learning based on openness, sharing, personal meaning, participation and equality. They are the appropriate format of education for a time in which we are depending on not only transferring fixed knowledge but also co-creating new knowledge. Barcamps are about sharing, discussing, negotiating solutions for a world in change. Barcamps are one way of transforming education through open approaches from bottom-up.
Barcamps are not only a real best practice of open pedagogy and open educational practices. They are also the source of collective development and use of open educational materials. The documentation with collaboratively text documents, blogging, podcasts etc. are mostly shared under a CC BY licence. The organisers also provide templates for documentation and planning under CC BY.},
howpublished = {Beitrag auf der Open Education Global Conference (OER Global)},
keywords = {BarCamp, educamp, OERCamp, OERde, OERde16, OERde17, open educational ressources (OER)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}
Barcamps represent an unconference format with a common theme but without pre-planned programme. The session schedule is designed collaboratively at the beginning of each (un-)conference day. In Germany there are several barcamps in the field of education. Two of them will be highlighted from the position of members of their organising teams. “Educamps” on digital media in education started in 2008 and have since taken place 21 times. “OERcamps” on Open Educational Resources started in 2012 and have since taken place 9 times.
A recent review of OER-related activities in Germany on behalf of UNESCO (Orr, Neumann, Muuß-Merholz 2017, 8) found: “Since OER activities are mostly driven bottom-up, there has been a need for sharing questions, experiences and materials between players, who have been isolated in their own institutions. These players found opportunities for sharing in cross-sector events and communities. Especially the barcamp/unconference format turned out to fit tremendously well developing a strong German OER community. Indeed, Germany so far has seen a remarkably strong cross-sector community with common interest in OER.”
Barcamps open up new and contemporary formats for learning based on openness, sharing, personal meaning, participation and equality. They are the appropriate format of education for a time in which we are depending on not only transferring fixed knowledge but also co-creating new knowledge. Barcamps are about sharing, discussing, negotiating solutions for a world in change. Barcamps are one way of transforming education through open approaches from bottom-up.
Barcamps are not only a real best practice of open pedagogy and open educational practices. They are also the source of collective development and use of open educational materials. The documentation with collaboratively text documents, blogging, podcasts etc. are mostly shared under a CC BY licence. The organisers also provide templates for documentation and planning under CC BY. |
 | Muuß-Merholz, Jöran; Lorenz, Anja: The OER Awards in Germany. Promoting #Open through awarding best practice. 9th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER18), 18–19 April 2018, Bristol, UK, Bristol, 19.04.2018. @misc{lorenz2018oer18,
title = {The OER Awards in Germany. Promoting #Open through awarding best practice},
author = {Jöran Muuß-Merholz and Anja Lorenz},
url = {http://joeran.de/oer18award/
https://oer18.oerconf.org/sessions/the-oer-awards-in-germany-promoting-open-through-awarding-best-practice-1909/},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-19},
urldate = {2018-03-22},
address = {Bristol},
organization = {Association for Learning Technology (ALT)},
abstract = {The Ljubljana Action Plan 2017 puts a strong emphasis on “high quality” of OER (UNECO 2017), that is not a trivial issue when it comes to education (Ehlers 2009). The German “OER awards” aim at new ways of discussing and promoting OER.
Though Germany has been a latecomer to the OER scene, there is a strong OER community now (Orr, Neumann, Muuß-Merholz 2017). To promote the idea and the sharing of OER in German-speaking regions, there have been OER awards in early 2016 and in November 2017.
Overview
The OER awards highlight the efforts of OER practitioners in more than 10 categories. Furthermore, there was an audience award in 2016 that was linked to a funding for the best OER idea, that must be realized with the prize money, and special awards by the jury in 2016 and 2017 without submission options.
Criteria
A special focus was set on the elaboration of definitions for requirements and criteria. Contributions must be
- Open as described in the Open Definition (published by Open Knowledge International).
- Educational as in “designed for educational purposes”.
- Resource in the sense of “delimitable and transferable”. This explicitly includes software and concepts.
- German, i.e. in German language or (!) predominantly developed in a German language country.
In 2017 the following criteria were used for assessment:
- temporal relevance (must date from later than early 2016)
- participation and collaboration in the making
- didactic quality, innovative pedagogical settings
- licencing
- range, use, impact
- potential for actual reuse
- quality development and quality assurance
- technical quality
- X-factor (wild card for positive qualities not covered in the criteria mentioned above)
Quality of the content regarded from a subject perspective was NOT among the criteria.
It should be noted that these criteria were developed in an open and collaborative process among a jury of OER experts. All steps of the election processes were organized online as the jury never met before the ceremony. Supported by a moodle course and a set of Google Documents and Formulas, the process was adapted to the several steps and needs of the jury.
Outline of the Session
In our presentation we will give an overview on the idea and the process behind the OER award and show some statistics and figures. A special focus will be set on the community driven work within the “oer academy” in which the process, the criteria and the selection of awardees are discussed openly. Showcasing awarded projects will NOT be part of the presentation. We will instead focus on the question how an award can contribute to promoting the idea and the sharing of OER.
References
Ehlers, U. D. (2009). Understanding quality culture. Quality Assurance in Education, 17(4), 343-363.
Orr, D.; Neumann, J.; Muuß-Merholz, J. (2017). German OER Practices and Policy – from Bottom-up to Top-down Initiatives. http://iite.unesco.org/publications/3214746/
UNESCO (2017). “Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017.” Adopted by the second World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress in Ljubljana in September 2017. https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017.pdf},
howpublished = {9th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER18), 18–19 April 2018, Bristol, UK},
keywords = {OER-Award, OERde, OERde16, OERde17, open educational ressources (OER)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}
The Ljubljana Action Plan 2017 puts a strong emphasis on “high quality” of OER (UNECO 2017), that is not a trivial issue when it comes to education (Ehlers 2009). The German “OER awards” aim at new ways of discussing and promoting OER.
Though Germany has been a latecomer to the OER scene, there is a strong OER community now (Orr, Neumann, Muuß-Merholz 2017). To promote the idea and the sharing of OER in German-speaking regions, there have been OER awards in early 2016 and in November 2017.
Overview
The OER awards highlight the efforts of OER practitioners in more than 10 categories. Furthermore, there was an audience award in 2016 that was linked to a funding for the best OER idea, that must be realized with the prize money, and special awards by the jury in 2016 and 2017 without submission options.
Criteria
A special focus was set on the elaboration of definitions for requirements and criteria. Contributions must be
- Open as described in the Open Definition (published by Open Knowledge International).
- Educational as in “designed for educational purposes”.
- Resource in the sense of “delimitable and transferable”. This explicitly includes software and concepts.
- German, i.e. in German language or (!) predominantly developed in a German language country.
In 2017 the following criteria were used for assessment:
- temporal relevance (must date from later than early 2016)
- participation and collaboration in the making
- didactic quality, innovative pedagogical settings
- licencing
- range, use, impact
- potential for actual reuse
- quality development and quality assurance
- technical quality
- X-factor (wild card for positive qualities not covered in the criteria mentioned above)
Quality of the content regarded from a subject perspective was NOT among the criteria.
It should be noted that these criteria were developed in an open and collaborative process among a jury of OER experts. All steps of the election processes were organized online as the jury never met before the ceremony. Supported by a moodle course and a set of Google Documents and Formulas, the process was adapted to the several steps and needs of the jury.
Outline of the Session
In our presentation we will give an overview on the idea and the process behind the OER award and show some statistics and figures. A special focus will be set on the community driven work within the “oer academy” in which the process, the criteria and the selection of awardees are discussed openly. Showcasing awarded projects will NOT be part of the presentation. We will instead focus on the question how an award can contribute to promoting the idea and the sharing of OER.
References
Ehlers, U. D. (2009). Understanding quality culture. Quality Assurance in Education, 17(4), 343-363.
Orr, D.; Neumann, J.; Muuß-Merholz, J. (2017). German OER Practices and Policy – from Bottom-up to Top-down Initiatives. http://iite.unesco.org/publications/3214746/
UNESCO (2017). “Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017.” Adopted by the second World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress in Ljubljana in September 2017. https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ljubljana_oer_action_plan_2017.pdf |
| Muuß-Merholz, Jöran; Fabri, Blanche: Conferences open to all! Mainstreaming open education through unconferences and barcamps. 9th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER18), 18–19 April 2018, Bristol, UK, Bristol, 19.04.2018. @misc{mm2018oer18,
title = {Conferences open to all! Mainstreaming open education through unconferences and barcamps},
author = {Jöran Muuß-Merholz and Blanche Fabri},
url = {http://joeran.de/oer18oercamp/
https://oer18.oerconf.org/sessions/conferences-open-to-all-mainstreaming-open-education-through-unconferences-and-barcamps-1873/},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-19},
urldate = {2018-05-07},
address = {Bristol},
organization = {Association for Learning Technology (ALT)},
abstract = {Barcamps or open conferences are open education events which are open to all. They represent an unconference format with a common theme but without pre-planned programme. The session schedule is designed collaboratively at the beginning of each (un-)conference day. In Germany there are several barcamps in the field of education. Three of them will be highlighted. “Educamps” on digital media in education started in 2008 and have since taken place 21 times. “OERcamps” on Open Educational Resources started in 2012 and have since taken place 9 times. “InklusionsCamp” on inclusive education which has taken place for the first time in 2015.
A recent review of OER-related activities in Germany on behalf of UNESCO (Orr, Neumann, Muuß-Merholz 2017, 8) found: “Since OER activities are mostly driven bottom-up, there has been a need for sharing questions, experiences and materials between players, who have been isolated in their own institutions. These players found opportunities for sharing in cross-sector events and communities. Especially the barcamp/unconference format turned out to fit tremendously well developing a strong German OER community. Indeed, Germany so far has seen a remarkably strong cross-sector community with common interest in OER.”
Barcamps open up new and contemporary formats for learning based on openness, sharing, personal meaning, participation and equality. They are the appropriate format of education for a time in which we are depending on not only transferring fixed knowledge but also co-creating new knowledge. Barcamps are about sharing, discussing, negotiating solutions for a world in change. Barcamps are one way of transforming education through open approaches from bottom-up.
Barcamps are not only a real best practice of open pedagogy and open educational practices. They are also the source of collective development and use of open educational materials (Bernhardt & Kirchner 2009). The documentation with collaborative text documents, blogging, podcasts etc. are mostly shared under a CC BY licence. The organisers also provide templates for documentation and planning under CC BY.
Barcamps provide a radical “Open to all” approach by lowering the barriers by removing participation fees and any formal requirements, fostering cross sectoral collaboration, encouraging volunteering and peer to peer support for participants, facilitate ways of participation via digital media. Barcamps aim to be truely inclusive events.
In this presentation we will give an overview on these characteristics. We would also like to encourage the participants to discuss how they can bring open conferencing to their home turfs.
References
Bernhardt, T., & Kirchner, M. (2009). Web 2.0 Meets Conference: The EduCamp as. Looking Toward the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education: Ubiquitous Learning and the Digital Native, 192.
Greenhill, K., & Wiebrands, C. (2008). The unconference: a new model for better professional communication.
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge university press.
Orr, D., Neumann, J., & Muuß-Merholz, J. (2017). German OER Practices and Policy — from Bottom-up to Top-down Initiatives. UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE).},
howpublished = {9th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER18), 18–19 April 2018, Bristol, UK},
keywords = {BarCamp, educamp, OERCamp, OERde, OERde16, OERde17, open educational ressources (OER)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}
Barcamps or open conferences are open education events which are open to all. They represent an unconference format with a common theme but without pre-planned programme. The session schedule is designed collaboratively at the beginning of each (un-)conference day. In Germany there are several barcamps in the field of education. Three of them will be highlighted. “Educamps” on digital media in education started in 2008 and have since taken place 21 times. “OERcamps” on Open Educational Resources started in 2012 and have since taken place 9 times. “InklusionsCamp” on inclusive education which has taken place for the first time in 2015.
A recent review of OER-related activities in Germany on behalf of UNESCO (Orr, Neumann, Muuß-Merholz 2017, 8) found: “Since OER activities are mostly driven bottom-up, there has been a need for sharing questions, experiences and materials between players, who have been isolated in their own institutions. These players found opportunities for sharing in cross-sector events and communities. Especially the barcamp/unconference format turned out to fit tremendously well developing a strong German OER community. Indeed, Germany so far has seen a remarkably strong cross-sector community with common interest in OER.”
Barcamps open up new and contemporary formats for learning based on openness, sharing, personal meaning, participation and equality. They are the appropriate format of education for a time in which we are depending on not only transferring fixed knowledge but also co-creating new knowledge. Barcamps are about sharing, discussing, negotiating solutions for a world in change. Barcamps are one way of transforming education through open approaches from bottom-up.
Barcamps are not only a real best practice of open pedagogy and open educational practices. They are also the source of collective development and use of open educational materials (Bernhardt & Kirchner 2009). The documentation with collaborative text documents, blogging, podcasts etc. are mostly shared under a CC BY licence. The organisers also provide templates for documentation and planning under CC BY.
Barcamps provide a radical “Open to all” approach by lowering the barriers by removing participation fees and any formal requirements, fostering cross sectoral collaboration, encouraging volunteering and peer to peer support for participants, facilitate ways of participation via digital media. Barcamps aim to be truely inclusive events.
In this presentation we will give an overview on these characteristics. We would also like to encourage the participants to discuss how they can bring open conferencing to their home turfs.
References
Bernhardt, T., & Kirchner, M. (2009). Web 2.0 Meets Conference: The EduCamp as. Looking Toward the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education: Ubiquitous Learning and the Digital Native, 192.
Greenhill, K., & Wiebrands, C. (2008). The unconference: a new model for better professional communication.
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge university press.
Orr, D., Neumann, J., & Muuß-Merholz, J. (2017). German OER Practices and Policy — from Bottom-up to Top-down Initiatives. UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE). |
2017
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 | Lorenz, Anja: Bildungspolitik trifft OER-Community – und begreift(?). Keynote auf dem Kick-Off des Projekts OERsax, Dresden, 17.03.2017. @misc{lorenz2017oersax,
title = {Bildungspolitik trifft OER-Community – und begreift(?)},
author = {Anja Lorenz},
url = {https://secret-cow-level.de/wordpress/2017/03/deja-vu-oer-in-sachsen-oersax/
http://bit.ly/oersax-lorenz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYBNFcy2v-k
http://blogs.hrz.tu-freiberg.de/oersax/ready-steady-go-kick-off-oersax-am-17-03/
http://blogs.hrz.tu-freiberg.de/oersax/keynote-vortrag-von-anja-lorenz-online/},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-03-17},
urldate = {2017-03-17},
address = {Dresden},
organization = {OERsax},
school = {Technische Universität Dresden, Bergakademie Freiberg und HTW Dresden},
howpublished = {Keynote auf dem Kick-Off des Projekts OERsax},
keywords = {coer16, keynote, L3T, OER-Award, OERde, OERde16, OERsax, open educational ressources (OER), SOOC, SOOPAL},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}
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2016
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 | Lorenz, Anja; Wittke, Andreas: Möge der MOOC mit Euch sein – Viel zu lernen wir noch haben. Beitrag auf der Campus Innovation 2016 (#cihh16), Hamburg, 18.11.2016. @misc{lorenz2016-cihh16,
title = {Möge der MOOC mit Euch sein – Viel zu lernen wir noch haben},
author = {Anja Lorenz and Andreas Wittke},
url = {https://www.campus-innovation.de/
http://bit.ly/cihh16-fhl
http://bit.ly/cihh16-fhl-extended
https://secret-cow-level.de/wordpress/2016/11/powerpoint-go-home-wir-haben-h5p/},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-11-18},
urldate = {2016-11-21},
address = {Hamburg},
organization = {Multimedia Kontor Hamburg},
howpublished = {Beitrag auf der Campus Innovation 2016 (#cihh16)},
keywords = {Arbeit 4.0, coer16, deu4arab, digital happiness, digitalisation, eLearning, eroticMOOC, eviMOOC, h5p, higher education, ichMOOC, kuchenfluch, massive open online course (MOOC), mevMOOC, montagsbildung, mooin, new perspective, nwsMOOC, OERde16, open educational ressources (OER), refugees, VHS, vobaMOOC, YouTube},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}
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