Open Education Europa Portal Anniversary October 2015

The 1st of October 2015 Open Education Europa celebrated its 2 years anniversary. 

A lot of activities were taken placeduring the anniversary.The day before a TweetChat was held and moderated by Ass Professor Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, UK. The Tweetchat can be followed in Storyfy on the link as below.

https://storify.com/stylianosm2/open-education-europa-webinar-tweetchat-on-educati

Open Education Europa Fellows 2015, like myself, had been asked to send greetings to Open Education Europa Portal, so here is my introduction and my greetings at YouTube.

Dr. Ossiannilsson works in national and international associations in the area of open online learning and education and serves as board member or on consultancy. Just to mention some: EADTU (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities),Excellence, OpenupEd (MOOCs), EPPROBATE,  EDEN (European Distance and e-Learning Network), EFQUEL (European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning), EUCEN(European Universities Continuing Education Network), SADE/SVERD (Swedish Association of Distance Education) and Campus NOOA (Norway)

I have a passion about developing and contributing to open education for a Future We Want for All, like UNESCO stated at their Policy Forum in Paris 2015.



See also my profile at Open Education Europa

 Open Education Europa Teachers Contest was launched during the anniversary aiming at collecting and sharing innovative teaching practices taken place in Europe.

Open Education Europa Teachers Contest from Open Education Europa

The contest aims at European teachers and educators in primary, secondary and higher education, vocational training and adult learning who teach in an innovative way or aim to achieve greater openness or inclusion in the classroom.

To participate in the contest, please submit electronically a Good Practice you were personally involved in. We define “Good Practice” in education as an action, initiative or experience that enhances learning and combines one or more of the following principles:

• Innovation; the application of a novel approach, method or resource to improve teaching or learning.
• Openness; the use or production of resources that are shared freely; the opening up of the classroom with open educational practices.
• Inclusion; providing access to education or training to a previously excluded group or audience.

For the contest we will also consider the Replicability of the practice; whether it is easy for colleagues in other countries to apply and adapt the practice.

Everyone taking part in the OEE Teachers Contest will receive the “Open Education Europa Pioneer” badge and have a chance to win a trip to an innovative school in Europe.

We invite innovators from all all disciplines, fields and levels of education who use successfully various approaches and resources to share their good teaching practices until October 31th, 2015!

We are looking forward to meeting you online and learning about your successful practices!

Start here and good luck!

Open Education Europa Teachers Contest launched!

Are you or your team the best educators in the World/in Europe
It is time to nominate as the Open Education Europa Teachers Contest was launched the 1st of Octoer in connection wih its 2 years anniversary.

Innovators from all all disciplines, fields and levels of education who use successfully various approaches and resources to share their good teaching practices until October 31th, 2015! You are most welcome to submit in any European language. 

See more at the special page for the Contest

Excellence in education requires a constant drive and passion for improvement, and professional development. Sharing is the heart of Education. The Open Education Europa portal is announcing the Open Education Europa Teachers Contest.

The Open Education Europa portal has just launched a contest aiming at collection and sharing innovative teaching practices taking place in Europe. See the infrórmation at the presentation below.

Open Education Europa Teachers Contest from Open Education Europa

The contest aims at European teachers and educators in primary, secondary and higher education, vocational training and adult learning who teach in an innovative way or aim to achieve greater openness or inclusion in the classroom.

To participate in the contest, please submit electronically a Good Practice you were personally involved in. We define “Good Practice” in education as an action, initiative or experience that enhances learning and combines one or more of the following principles:

• Innovation; the application of a novel approach, method or resource to improve teaching or learning.
• Openness; the use or production of resources that are shared freely; the opening up of the classroom with open educational practices.
• Inclusion; providing access to education or training to a previously excluded group or audience.

The Replicability of the practice; whether it is easy for colleagues in other countries to apply and adapt the practice is also concidered in the contest.

Everyone taking part in the OEE Teachers Contest will receive the “Open Education Europa Pioneer” badge and have a chance to win a trip to an innovative school in Europe.

We are looking forward to meeting you online and learning about your successful practices!

Start here and good luck!

RE: the OECD Report September 2015, it is time to read the full report

...and not just to concentrate on some critical headings from "between the lines" which have been published the last couple of days in all kind of media all over the world.

The OECD has recently published the report entitled "Students, Computers and Learning: Making the connection". This report has caused quite a stir - both in popular media and in professional and academic circles. But what does it actually say? What are the conclusions we should draw from it? What are the consequences and implications we should expect?

Read the full report here

http://www.oecd.

org/publications/students-computers-and-learning-9789264239555-en.htm

The  report discuss: Are there computers in the classroom? Does it matter? Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection examines how students’ access to and use of information and communication technology (ICT) devices has evolved in recent years, and explores how education systems and schools are integrating ICT into students’ learning experiences. Based on results from PISA 2012, the report discusses differences in access to and use of ICT – what are collectively known as the “digital divide” – that are related to students’ socio-economic status, gender, geographic location, and the school a child attends. The report highlights the importance of bolstering students’ ability to navigate through digital texts. It also examines the relationship among computer access in schools, computer use in classrooms, and performance in the PISA assessment. As the report makes clear, all students first need to be equipped with basic literacy and numeracy skills so that they can participate fully in the hyper-connected, digitised societies of the 21st century.

OECD (2015), Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection, PISA, OECD Publishing, Paris. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264239555-en

View the presentation from OECD A. Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills below:

Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection (Andreas Schleicher, (Director, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills) from OECD Education

One simple conclusion can be summarized as: You can’t think about technology for learning in isolation from teachers.

The report has been commented at OPEN EDUCATION EUROPA as below:

For some people this report might be the evidence that computers do not improve learning. For other people the findings of this report might prove that teachers still luck the skills to use technology in classroom in an efficient way. Few people can also say that this research has just shown that there is no bad technology but only bad teachers or, from another perspective, what makes technology work is a brilliant teacher and nothing more!

For sure the research findings of the OECD report have been interpreted in different ways and have caused quite a stir - both in popular media and in professional and academic circles. But what does it actually say? What are the conclusions we should draw from it? What are the consequences and implications we should expect?

The report has been commented by some experts at the OPEN EDUCATION EUROPA. You can contribute and join the OPEN debate about the OECD report: Digital technology in schools is it a "benefit" or a "burden"? Follow the link and contribute to the  public debate, and make  your voice heard!