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Open educational practices: a bottom-up approach in Latin America and Europe to develop

a common Higher Education AreaOportUnidad

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PROJECT OportUnidad

PROGRAMME ALFA III - Lot 1: Joint Projects

DURATION 30 months (starting date: 1 Jan 2012)

PARTNERS 12 Partners

AIM Foster openness in Higher Education

OportUnidad

Almost 600 M. inhabitants Over 2,500 universities 7,000 HE institutions (1)15 million students (2)70 Latin American Ues 10 countries (OCW Universia) over 200 courseTemoa - 30,000 ERSciELO- REDALYC (20 art. OER)

1.Brunner, J.J. 2007. Universidad y sociedad en América Latina. Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación. Universidad Veracruzana.2.Cruz González, D.E., D.J.L. García Cuevas, and D.E. González Suárez. (2010). “Las universidades de América Latina y El Caribe y el avance de las sociedades a través de la innovación y la gestión tecnológica.” Universidad y Sociedad 2(1).

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education - Web of Knowledge - Science - Thomson Reuters

Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil) (candidate)

Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador

Fundación Uvirtual, Bolivia

Universidad Virtual del Tecnológico de Monterrey (UVTM), Mexico

Universidad de la Empresa, Uruguay

Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (UIGV), Peru

Universidad EAFIT, Colombia

LA Partners

Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” (USGM), Italy

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

University of Oxford (UOXF), United Kingdom

EU Partners

OportUnidadRegional Agenda General objective:

Strengthen the EU-LA Common Higher Education Area, through a bottom-up approach, by the increasing the use of open educational practices and resources (OEP & OER)

60 organisations in LA.

Cooperation to contribute in the

economical and social development

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- Raise awareness & HEI participation in OEP.- Define the OER Agenda for the re-use of OER- Define a mid-term strategic roadmap (local-institutional level) - Train teachers how to use and reuse OER (e-skills) - Pilot start-up open educational practices (transactional linkage).

Specific Objectives of OportUnidad

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Compendium of EU-LA OER practices• LA OEP awareness state-of-the-art• Local OEP awareness baseline• Interviews + case studies (EU+LA)

Definition of OER AgendaInstitutional roadmapPilot OER training course (educators)Start-up of OEP

OER Compendium

Nomination form

Self- Nomination form

OEP State of the Art in LA

Fellows baseline survey (to be designed)

Instrument Name SourceOnline Form 1 Nomination form Each partners nominate around 10

potential fellows

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Fellows recruitment:

Nomination process (form 1)

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Instrument Name Source LanguagesOnline Form 2 Self-Nomination

formOpen and publicly available (requisite to participate in OportUnidad)

English, Portuguese Spanish

Open Everybody 60 Latin American Partners & Fellows Universities

Fellows recruitment:

Self-nomination process (form 2)

Instruments Sources GoalOnline Form 3: LA State-of-the-art

Completed by each partner + some fellows

Mapping OEP awareness and impact in LA

LA-EU Case studies Conducted by OportUnidad team

Learning from best practices

Interviews with experts Conducted by OportUnidad team

Learning from best practices

Fellows Baseline Survey To be filled out by educators of fellow organisations

Measuring awareness within each fellow

LA State-of-the-art & Baseline

Argentina (7)

Uruguay (1)

BoliviaBrazil (3)

Colombia (7)

Costa Rica (3)

Ecuador (8)

Guatemala (2)

Honduras (2)Mexico (8)

Nicaragua (2)

Panama (1)

Paraguay (1)

Peru (1)

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Chile (3)

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Regional Hubs (regional agenda + local road map)

Agenda of OER re-useEU-LA’s strategy for

OEP in HEPolicies/actions to

boost the benefit of the use and re-use of OER in HE.

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Institutional roadmap(s)-Mid-term strategic plan:Implementation of OEP Agendaat local/institutional level.-Shaped by local, cultural and institutional framework.-In consultation with the managerial level of the (60) universities.

Consultations (managerial level) of the LA partner universities

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Start-up of OERParticipants will start-up OEP in their universities as part of the implementation of the institutional roadmap

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), Costa Rica

Learn more about us!

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Daniel Villar Onrubia, phd student @villaronrubia

Cristobal Cobo, research fellow@cristobalcobo

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

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