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White Paper on Business-University Cooperation
This document presents draft recommendations to enhance the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a catalyst for business-university cooperation.…
OER Innovation Briefing n.6
An introduction to Open Educational Resources and Innovation Welcome to the sixth ENCORE+ Innovation Briefing! The purpose of this stakeholder r…
OER Innovation Briefing n.5
OER in the age of AI Welcome to the fifth ENCORE+ Innovation Briefing! The purpose of this series is to provide an accessible introduction to th…
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Policies & Practice
Quality
OER Technology
Innovation & Business Models
Strategy for the European OER Ecosystem
Policy and practice report This report brings together the analysed good practices on integrating OER into Higher Education and business. From our analysis of OER integration best practices, this report sets out guidelines for higher education institutions and businesses about how to develop policies & strategies to foster the integration of OER into their organisations. […]
Business strategies involving OER
Policy and practice report The aim of this report is to explore how businesses are integrating openness into their strategies. We use openness as an umbrella term to include Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP), this reflects the wider goals of creating more open educational and organisational cultures that support more diverse, […]
OER Policy and Strategy – Position Paper No. 4
Building an institutional OER Culture This paper comments on the current state of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Europe, in particular at the policy and strategy level. It challenges some of the altruistic, philanthropic and public good drivers underlying the OER movement by identifying the need to align new open solutions with the actual problems […]
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State of the Art Report: Quality in the European OER Ecosystem
New report from the ENCORE+ project, focused on Quality in OER. This report introduces quality concepts and approaches related to OER. It provides an overview of definitions of quality for OER and suggests a conceptual mapping as well as an overview of major issues related to quality for OER. It also identifies recommendations for policymakers […]
Piloting the ENCORE+Quality Framework
This report provides the results of the evaluation of the ENCORE+ Quality Transparency Framework (ENCORE QTF). The QTF enables repositories to make their quality practices visible and explicit, and is described in ENCORE+ deliverable D5.2. The QTF was developed through extensive consultation with the OER community as part of the activities of the ENCORE+ project. […]
Quality transparency in OER repositories
Building the ENCORE+ Quality Transparency Framework (ENCORE QTF) The workshops and expert consultations conducted by ENCORE+ initiative during 2022 concluded that practices which OER repositories employ to develop the quality of the repository – called “quality approaches of repositories” – have to be made transparent. Transparency would allow users to understand upfront or in the […]
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Elements of an ENCORE+ Workshop
When the important restrictions on travel and face-to-face contact which were introduced to alleviate the Covid-19 pandemic began to be relaxed it became possible for the ENCORE+ team here to meet with our stakeholders at various in-person events. These included OER22 in London, UK and Open Education Global in-person congress in Nantes, France. Over the […]
Proof of Concept (PoC) of key features of OER infrastructure
Roadmap towards building the POC of key features of OER infrastructure The aim of the activity within the ENCORE+ project that brought to this Proof of Concept is to investigate and identify success criteria for a robust, sustainable and quality assured OER repository.The investigation has taken into account not only EU examples, but also the […]
OER Technology Circle – Position Paper No. 2
Open Educational Resources and Repositories: the role of technology Whether you are a developer, a content creator, or simply a user of Open Educational Resources, technology plays a fundamental role as a tool for streamlining processes, improving outcomes, and thus driving adoption of open resources among an ever-widening audience. The second Position Paper for the […]
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White Paper on Business-University Cooperation
This document presents draft recommendations to enhance the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a catalyst for business-university cooperation. When reflecting on the interplay between open educational resources (OER) and open education practices in the context of business-university cooperation and the cultivation of entrepreneurialism, one must recognize their significant potential. These elements play a […]
OER Innovation Briefing n.6
An introduction to Open Educational Resources and Innovation Welcome to the sixth ENCORE+ Innovation Briefing! The purpose of this stakeholder report is to provide an accessible introduction to the innovation potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Europe. This report is compiled from a series of briefings aimed at professionals and leaders from higher education […]
OER Innovation Briefing n.5
OER in the age of AI Welcome to the fifth ENCORE+ Innovation Briefing! The purpose of this series is to provide an accessible introduction to the innovation potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Europe. These briefings are aimed at professionals and leaders from higher education and business. This edition provides an overview of how […]
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