From Open Educational Resources to Open Educational Practice for Commons Community and Culture Projects Erasmus Project

Project Title

From Open Educational Resources to Open Educational Practice for Commons Community and Culture Projects

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

OpenCCCP aimed at bridging the gap between OER and OEP. OERs (Open Educational Resources) are digital materials designed to be re-used for teaching, learning and research. To facilitate re-use, they are freely accessible and not protected by licenses. Ever since they emerged at the end of the previous century, they have been gaining traction as a way to democratize and progress learning. The using and re-using of these online resources for learning purposes in the real world is sometimes referred to as OEPs (Open Educational Practices).

The initiators of OpenCCCP noticed that re-using the material rarely happens by itself. The material needs to be adapted to a specific context. In other words, it has to be revised, re-mixed and then re-distributed.
Not wanting to work in the abstract, the partners of OpenCCCP focused their efforts on disadvantaged neighborhoods in Barcelona, Berlin, Iasi, London and Palermo. Furthermore, the subject-matter of their re-use of OERs was cultural heritage, both in its tangible and intangible sense. This added a specific interest in a moment when the discourse and practice of heritage is increasingly shifting from a specialistic and conservative approach as steered by top-down institutions to a processual understanding of the term as “heritage making”, in which communities organise, reclaim and consolidate their values through participatory practices and co-creation.

First step was, then, to develop a comprehensive model to create OEPs to provide a clear frame where to develop them in the context of the needs of trainers, cultural managers, social workers and other mediator figures. The comprehensive model aims also to guarantee the transferability of the experience. Then, a curriculum was developed to train the trainers who will, afterwards, develop Local Training Laboratories in each partner country. Through that, they set out to develop a number of tools, and draw lessons from the way the re-vising, re-mixing and re-distributed was articulated locally, referred to as Local Action Plans.
The tools were meant to facilitate the engaging and aligning of actors, help in designing a local action plan, and where possible facilitated the recognition and certification of skills. The instruments were brought together in an Open Curriculum.

Additionally, must be acknowledged how the unexpected Covid emergency highlighted open digital resources as providing essential responses to the need for tools to manage collaborative work and horizontal cooperation without social proximity, and their translation into operational practices has been one essential scope of the training in a very concrete eventuality.

Through the 2,5 years of the project, 27 participants were trained as trainers (social workers, cultural managers, activists), 46 beneficiaries participated in the local labs, and 15 local action plans were developed. Moreover, a series of collaborations with local organizations in the different countries give an idea of the interest raised and the possibilities of the findings of the project in different contexts.

Project Website

http://www.opencccp.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 236508,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

TRANSIT PROJECTES & Country: ES

Project Partners

• COLINI-TRIPODI GBR
• BOND OF UNION SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• Asociatia Alternative Sociale
• City Mine(d) London