File:POERUP D6.5.3 THIRD INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE WORKSHOP.pdf

Highlights

The THIRD MEETING (WORKSHOP) OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE took place on Thursday 12th December 2013 at the Media and Learning Conference (Flemish Ministry of Education), Brussels.

Out of many points made, the following were particularly important.

Teacher training

The following main comments were made:

• We should think how teachers could most effectively use OER
• The need to train teachers to identify OER and integrate their use into practice
• Should the recommendations be realistic or aspirational?
• It should be possible to define standards for teachers as professionals in digital pedagogy
• We should identify the competences required in teacher training
• Why not integrate OER training into existing training programmes?
• The wording on initial teacher training should be strengthened
• All of the recommendations are already part of the training programme in Greece – but there may be a gap between recommendation and implementation
• There is a danger of recommendations becoming outdated as the contexts change: there is a need for consistent development and flexibility
• Find a balance between mentioning OER and not mentioning them!

Certification and accreditation

• Is the first VET recommendation too broad?
• Where is the link between OER and EQF? Does this need substantiating?
• Emphasise the need to move towards outcomes-based education
• There is an active movement in Romania to accredit informal and online learning
• Have we thought about the granularity of OER? This is not really represented in the quality issues recommendations
• Emphasise the need to measure APL credits
• Change credit exchange systems
• Certification issues shouldn’t just be focussed on APL

Next steps

This was the final IAC meeting. The next steps would be for the POERUP team to take these comments on board, publish the full draft papers on the Open Education Europa portal and invite further comments up to 31st January 2014, after which the papers would be finalised