In my presentation, I would like to show an open education practice that support the creation of open educational resources by teachers and librarians in Poland. Project was created as part of the Centrum Cyfrowe (Digital Center Poland) project: SpołEd (EduCoop).
What I'm going to talk about:
- description of the Open Education Cooperative project
- materials description and usage suggestions
- EduCoop method
- ideas how to expended
For four years Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland have been cooperating with teachers and librarians, together we create open educational resources, but also talk about what open education is, what competences it requires, which of them are crucial for the learning process in general. In our project, we are guided by 4 values: cooperation, learning, openness and adventure. And it is the starting point for all our activities.
We collected practices, tools and methods that we have developed over the years, materials produced by other organizations, universities and sometimes private individuals. We show and practice the use of tools, but also learning methods. We support canvases and simple checklists. We encourage to create own learning resource. We shows the theory and history of Open Educational Resources, but the most important thing about our work is practice. Our experience shows that it is difficult to understand the idea of oer unless you make your own resource available. This is what we are striving for.
Last year, we translated the course into English and we selected more universal examples and materials so that it could also be used by teachers from other countries.
We are open to cooperation, translations into another language or new versions of the course. We know that this course can be modified according to the needs, because we did so in creating a separate version for librarians. We believe that such a formula not only enables easy translation, but also adaptation to the needs of various groups that may be interested in open education, not only teachers, but also parents, employees of cultural centers and institutions.
Therefore, I would like there to be space during the presentation for active participation, asking questions, adding insights and ideas, and possibly a short sample of the course itself.
By attending this session, attendees will be able to:- Use EduCoop method to create own project
- See how important is open education in K-12
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