Open Teach – Transforming School Education with Quality Assured Open Educational Resources and Practices Erasmus Project

Project Title

Open Teach – Transforming School Education with Quality Assured Open Educational Resources and Practices

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The Open Teach project aims at advancing the research, evaluation, and implementation of quality open education resources and practices, and supporting educators to develop their digital competences profiles. The project offers a platform for teachers with focus on middle and secondary school STEAM subjects.

The Open Teach platform offers online Courses with six modules on open education resources (OER) and open education practices (OEP) and enables the collection and assessment of at least 500 Resources (OER) by the Community of Practice (i.e. teachers taking the Courses). The Courses learning activities include the critical selection, evaluation, adaptation, repurposing, and creation of OER. Teachers taking the Courses become part of the Community of Practice (CoP) sharing and critically assessing the Resources on the platform. An innovative self-sustainable social- and system- supported assessment toolkit for the quality assurance of OER and OEP is integrated into the platform, and co-designed with teachers and educational experts.

After conducting a needs analysis including 75 teachers, educators, school heads, and teacher training institutions in Germany, Greece, and Portugal, the Open Teach project will propose policy support actions for the effective implementation of open education in schools. Based on the results of this analysis and state-of-the-art studies, the OER Assessment Toolkit is designed to orchestrate the learning and assessment activities needed for a self-sustainable quality assurance mechanism of OER and OEP. The toolkit is implemented in the platform and integrated into the Courses’ activities and learning logic, as well as the Resources’ assessment criteria and features. The OER assessment toolkit is then tested and validated by teachers during the two planned pilots, and recommendations for improvement are concluded and implemented.

The Open Teach consortium aims at reaching out to at least 500 teachers through their network and dissemination activities, of which at least 300 enroll in the Courses and 150 complete them. The project aims to create and sustain a transnational Community of Practice, where teachers become active promoters and disseminators of open education in their local schools and communities, and share reviews and best practices of OER and OEP on the Open Teach Platform. Furthermore, the consortium plans to work with 30 educational institutes, TTIs, universities, schools, and networks to promote the project activities and Courses, of which 5 are planned to integrate the Courses and/or modules in their training programmes.
Teachers, schools, universities, teacher training institutes, and educational organizations can make great use of the Open Teach project results. The benefits include:
developing teachers’ digital competencies in relation to OER and OEP
training and promoting the localisation and adaptation of OER to be more inclusive and equitable
enabling peer-to-peer support and promotion of open education in online and local communities
forming a transnational Community of Practice around open education
offering open access to Courses and Resources with an integrated self-sustained quality assurance mechanism
advancing the research on quality assurance of open education resources and practices

Project Website

http://open-teach.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 285390 Eur

Project Coordinator

IMC INFORMATION MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION AG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ELLINOGERMANIKI AGOGI SCHOLI PANAGEA SAVVA AE
• UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES
• NUCLIO NUCLEO INTERACTIVO DE ASTRONOMIA ASSOCIACAO