The Greek Open Courses Program project.opencourses.gr Pantelis Balaouras, Konstantinos Tsimpanis, Lazaros Merakos Greek Academic Network | University of Athens 8-10 June 2016, Thessaloniki
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THE PROGRAM AND ITS ACHIEVEMENTS
funding
program
some data Design: - Started at 2010 Implementation: - Kicked-off 4 years ago 2015 - 15.000.000 euro 2014 2013
what is about ?
what is not about
who can benefit and what
achievements in numbers http://opencourses.gr
more awareness of Open Education
The Horizontal Project THE SUPPORT OFFERED TO THE INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
support coordination at national level specifications guidelines & training technical solutions (architecture & hosting) software products
specifications
minimum specifications
guidelines & training “ Specifications and Οpen Courses Development Process ” – standards, development process • texts, video and training slides, analytical development course guide, notes and presentations “ Developing Open Digital Courses – Technical Issues ” – More technical issues
guidelines & training (cont.) “ Intellectual Property and Open Courses – Open Educational Resources ” – Creative Commons (CC) licenses, intellectual property issues, focusing on practical matters “ Instructions for developing educational material accessible to people with disabilities ” – LibreOffice 4.0, LaTex and MS-Office 2007, 2010, 2013.
guidelines & training (cont.) http://opencourses.gunet.gr
software products
ΤΗΕ OPENECLASS PLATFORM
Open eClass platform The Open eClass platform is an integrated Course Management System. Open eClass has been designed to enhance the learning process, it is distributed for free as an open-source software It is actively supported by GUnet since 2003.
key features
new functionality and tools
user interface
official site http://openeclass.org
THE OPENDELOS PLATFORM
Open Delos platform
video production cameraman
video production HD IP camera, e.g. 50+ IP cameras at Univ. of Athens
HD live streamimg
uploading & playing Video Audio Slides Subtitles
ο nline virtual & real editing
online synchronizing tool
key features
official site http://opendelos.org
an example of opendelos live.uoa.gr & delos.uoa.gr 50+ HD IP cameras, 9000+ videos
http://opencourses.gr THE NATIONAL REPOSITORY
National Open Courses Search Portal http://opencourses.gr
search with keywords
browsing by institute
browsing by subject
search results
metadata
the course
courses per discipline Unspecified metadata (582) 17% Sciences (952) Humanities & 28% Arts (522) 15% Engineering and Technology Social Sciences (578) (482) 17% 14% Agricultural Medicine, Sciences (50) Health Science & 2% Professions(226) 7%
top 5 subjects Philosophy, Ethics and Religion (104 - 3%) Languages and Literature (124 - 4%) Pedagogy (129 - 4%) Economics and Business Administration (268 - 8%) Computer, IT, Electronic Engineering (527 - 16%) Computer and Electronic Engineering (167 - 5%) Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications (360 - 11%) 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16%
PROFILE OF ATTENDERS 154 PARTICIPANTS IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE OF UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
students or public 47,4 52,6 Student Public
women vs mem 43,51 56,49 Men Women
age Age 28,57 44,81 15,58 11,04 22-30 years 31-35 years 36-44 years 45 years
education level Education 3,9 29,22 66,88 Primary Ed. Secondary Ed. University
are OC useful ? How useful do you find OpenCourses for your professional or personal developent ? 1,95 11,04 38,96 15,58 32,47 Very much useful Very useful Useful Poor Not useful
certification ? Would you be interesting in getting a Certification through examinations, even if you had to pay ? 12,99 12,34 38,31 18,83 17,53 Very much interesting Very interesting Quite interesting Little interesting No interesting
CONCLUSION
conclusion The Open Courses program had a strong impact on the Greek Academic Community new software platforms and infrastructure extensive know-how 3450 open courses by more than 3600 teachers more awareness of Open Education and OERs It may serve as an example for other countries and communities.
more information http://project.opencourses.gr
Thank you ! Dr. Pantelis Balaouras p.balaouras@noc.uoa.gr
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