1. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES An outlook on the functionalities of OER for open and flexible teaching and learning in Europe Piet Henderikx Secretary General EADTU OER Seminar K.U.Leuven October 28-29, 2008

2. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES EADTU TASK FORCES, PROJECTS and NETWORKS University Strategies and Business Models Open Educational Resources Virtual Erasmus Quality Benchmarking in Online and Distance Education Employability: Virtual Internships, Entrepreneurship Research in Online an Distance Learning Network Humanities Network Sustainable Development

3. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES EADTU TASK FORCES, PROJECTS and NETWORKS University Strategies and Business Models: USBM Open Educational Resources: MORIL Virtual Erasmus: EPICS Quality Benchmarking in Online and Distance Education: e- XCELLENCE Employability: virtual internships (CBVM), entrepreneurship (CVBE, TEC) Research in online an distance learning Network Humanities Network Sustainable development

4. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES Online teaching and learning in European higher education: functions Enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in the mainstream Widening participation Inter-campus education Internationalisation of higher education

5. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES Online teaching and learning in European higher education: functions Enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in the mainstream: better access to content, better content, better interaction between staff and students and between students, better assessment, personalised learning, learning communities, constructive learning, integrated learning (TOLEDO, Claroline) Widening participation: enhancing the participation (quantitative, qualitative) to higher education in the mainstream and for adult learners: responding to the needs of the knowledge society (Lisbon and more), distance education for the mainstream and for 25+

6. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES Online teaching and learning in European higher education: functions Internationalisation of higher education: international recruitment (study advise, assessment); international curricula and courses; international seminars and learning communities; ´new providers´ Inter-campus education: sharing staff, students, courses; exchange of credits (ECTS) and degrees; a joint learning environment (common learning space)

7. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES The role of open educational resources enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in the mainstream: open knowledge and make it accessible within the university; create tools to construct knowledge in an open and collaborative environment (staff and students); study advise through profiling courses and programmes by open content widening participation: provision of non formal content: make available validated content to everyone everywhere; activate formal learning; activate social learning in various contexts (individual, workplace, community); involve students and staff in further knowledge construction

8. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES The role of open educational resources Inter-campus education: sharing staff and courses, broadening course offerings between institutions, sharing knowledge in a context of regional development, cooperation universities-employers, creating an open space of teaching and learning (course, curriculum, institutional level) Internationalisation of higher education: exploration of content (quality, level, topics) for student recruitment, motivate and stimulate students for courses and programmes, assessment of prior knowledge, share course materials or learning objects in an international context (Labspace OpenLearn; Ariadne), profile curricula, common teaching and learning spaces at the course or curriculum level, open content for international cooperation and for development cooperation (sustainable and affordable access to validated content worldwide)

9. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES Final remarks Open educational resources are challenging the future of on line an distance education in all four fields mentioned Open educational resources and educational design: strategies and objectives are leading in the educational design of OER’s Pilot appraoches: gradual implementations, capitalising on the experience of other institutions; Task Force OER as a platform/forum for cost-effective and educationally effective approaches, future EU projects Quality might be an issue: specific criteria will be added in the EADTU e- xcellence instrument the role of open educational resources as an instrument for universities in the knowledge society, corresponding with the role of universities in the knowledge society.

10. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES Thank you for your attention Piet.Henderikx@int.kuleuven.be Piet.Henderikx@eadtu.nl