ENCORE+ OER Technology Position Paper No. 3 This third technological position paper has aimed to explore stakeholders’ perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for ensuring quality and sustainability in OER repositories and also considers ethical issues related to the use of these systems in education. The ENCORE + Network aims to increase the dialogue among […]
Can Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT help create OERs in a more sustainable way?
Teachers are using ChatGPT for schools more than students, says a recent survey carried out by the Walton Family Foundation. They asked 1002 k-12 teachers and 1000 students (ages 12-17) if they are using ChatGPT: 51% of teachers replied they used it against 33% of students. Most of the teachers agreed that ChatGPT helped them […]
OER Innovation Briefing n.3
Innovation, Quality, Success Welcome to the second ENCORE+ Innovation Briefing! The goal 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 in higher education and business. This issue provides updates on some interesting projects, reports and […]
ENCORE+ OER Innovation Survey
Details about the ENCORE+ OER Innovation Survey and excellence showcase
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 […]
Quality – Position Paper No. 2
Open Educational Resources and Repositories: the role of quality Thematic Peer Group Workshops as a method for building a community-oriented quality framework Quality for OER, respectively quality for open education is viewed as the single most important factor determining the uptake of OER in institutions and training contexts. This is stated in Position Paper 1, […]
Technology Circle – round 2
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 optimizing processes, improving results and therefore promoting the adoption of open resources in an ever wider audience. The 2nd circle event of the ENCORE+ project dedicated to Technology will be […]
Quality Circle – round 2
In our upcoming ENCORE+ Circle event, focused on Quality on European Open Educational Resources, we will present and discuss our findings so far. Since the first circle events we have not only started a survey where we have asked several experts about their statements, fears and hopes for OER in Europe, but have also organized […]
Specific metrics and measures on resources usage
When talking about specific metrics and measures on resources usage, probably the first element to discuss is whether current metrics and measures are effective or whether they contribute only partially to validating, supporting and thus improving the organization and traceability of open educational resources. In parallel, we should clarify who should access these metrics, because they can obviously play […]
Join us in developing a European Ecosystem for OER
Since the beginning of 2021, a number of European partners have come together to create a European Ecosystem for OER. This May, the ENCORE+ project is inviting you and your colleagues to join the ENCORE+ OER Ecosystem in a series of events on Open Educational Resources. The ENCORE+ “Circles” are designed to support and facilitate […]
UX characteristics to make the functions of the OER Repositories easy-to use
Usability, easy access, user interface, friendly experience represent important factors for success of an online service, unfortunately in some cases they are mentioned as an actual issue of OER repositories. If users will not have a satisfactory experience, the availability of OER will be of limited added value.UX (User eXperience) is defined by “the international standard on ergonomics […]
Tools and strategies to support the continuous improvement of the included OERs
From theory to practice. Open Educational Resources, in most of the cases, are published allowing re-use and re-editing. But… But moving to practice, many issues emerge, at different levels. Do you think that technologies, tools and strategies aimed at supporting the continuous improvement of the OERs are effective? You need to join the Technology Circle […]
User friendly authoring tools to enhance user contribution and networking
Authoring tools need to be user-friendly both for the users of the OERs and for the creators that support the population of open contents in the web, mainly teachers and educators, but also passionate people.On one side, we need for example clear queries that help to find relevant and qualitative results. On the other, we […]
Feeding thoughts: polls launch on Linkedin group
At the beginning of May we’ll have the 2nd ENCORE+ Technology circle event (more info will follow). Meanwhile why not to warm-up the engines of the debate focusing on the features of the OER repositories!? 10 polls, one per week, will be launched soon on the Technology Circle Linkedin group. We really hope to meet […]
Invitation to a Peer Working Group on Quality for (European) OER repositories
What? Invitation to a moderated peer working group of repositories. Who? Repositories, Owners of collections, quality managers, experts, open educators. How? Peer working group with 4 meetings over 6 months. Objetive? OER repositories mutually explore practices of addressing their constituency, the community of educators and learners and analyse successful concepts to create impact. When? The […]
OER Innovation Briefing n.2
OER Technology Focus Welcome to the second 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 technologies used to support […]
Technological solutions for OER repositories: the H5P hub proposal
During our first live event (click here to watch the recording) we talked about the issues affecting OERs, with the result of a potential negative user experience. Obviously, this situation doesn’t help if we want OERs to become pervasive in the educational scenarios. ENCORE+ Technology Circle main question is “how technology can help?” There is more […]
Debrief: Quality Circle 1
The first ENCORE+ circle event on OER quality in Europe – and the road ahead 25th, 2021, more than 30 stakeholders from all over the world came together to discuss the future of OER quality in Europe. The event served as an inspiring kick-off to a series of quality circle events facilitated by the ENCORE+ […]
Debrief: OER Technology Circle 1
From the first round event to the next actions On October 29th , 2021 ENCORE+ opened the doors of the Technology Circle with an online, side event of the ICDE virtual global conference week “Upskilling and upscaling for quality Open, Flexible and Distance Learning”. Main focus of the event: the state of the art of […]
Quality – Position Paper No. 1
Open Educational Resources and Repositories: the role of quality Towards a community-oriented Quality Review Framework for OER The issue of quality assurance is fundamental in supporting the uptake of OER. Research has shown that it “remains a concern despite availability of many guides and frameworks” (2017 CoL Global Report, 62). This holds true for stakeholders […]
OER Technology Circle – Position Paper No. 1
Open Educational Resources and Repositories: the role of technology The position paper for the ENCORE+ Technology Circle argues that enabling technologies to enhance the potential of Open Education Resources and Repositories already exist, but they still have to be integrated in a joint process where stakeholders agree on the necessary standardization and interconnection to be […]
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