Overview: "Open" is a different approach to education. Its focus is on sharing, improving, and reusing educational materials created by educators, content experts, librarians, practitioners, and sometimes even students. This approach enables others to adopt and adapt resources and practices to fit local needs, promoting a more inclusive and collaborative educational culture.
Estimated Effort: 25-30 hours
This course is offered by MOOC Técnico in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano. It is an adaptation of the original MOOC Enhancing education through open opportunities, by Politecnico di Milano - METID - Learning Innovation, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The Tutors for this course edition are indicated below.
What does Open Education offer the global learning and teaching community through its resources (OER)? How can Open Educational Practices (OEP) support didactic activities? How can examples from practitioners worldwide inspire you? This MOOC aims to empower educators by showcasing examples and tools that promote openness and reuse in educational settings.
Participants will explore resources that can be adopted, adapted, and remixed according to their learners’ needs. The course also connects Open Education to broader initiatives such as Climate Change and Open Science, fostering dialogue with policy-makers for systemic change in education.
The course includes three main types of activities:
No prior knowledge is required. However, previous teaching experience may be helpful. This course is primarily intended for educators at all levels who are interested in innovating their pedagogical approach.
This MOOC is delivered entirely online and is available free of charge.
Paola Corti is a Project Manager at Politecnico di Milano – METID; she is an instructional designer involved in MOOCs design and production for POK platform. She coordinated the design of the course, involved international testimonials, together with other curators, in order to collect the experiences available in this MOOC, and she kept together the design and the production groups… and many are things needed : )
Received her diploma in Physics-Mathematics Sciences from the University of Moscow, and the MSc and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics from Técnico, where she started teaching in 1987, first at the Department of Physics and, from 1993 on, at the department of Mathematics. The area of her research is Operator Theory and Functional Analysis with applications, and also works on pedagogical issues, namely developing e-learning resources for projects in Mathematics. She spends most of her free time in activities related to dance, presently practicing sevillanas and flamenco.
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