• OportUnidad Project
    OportUnidad Project Open Educational Practices: a bottom up approach in Latin America and Europe to develop a common area of Higher Education
  • Open Educational Resources
    Open Educational Resources Educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
  • Open Practices
    Open Practices Practices which support the production, use and reuse of high quality OER through institutional policies, which promote innovative pedagogical models, and respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning path.

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How openness of resources can bring new possibilities of learning to on-campus students and also beyond the walls of the institutions?

The OportUnidad project explores the adoption of strategies and channels that embrace the principles of openness and reusability within the context of educational institutions.

The project intends to foster the adoption and pilot of open educational practices (OEP), and open educational resources (OER) in Latin America as a bottom-up approach to develop a common Higher Education Area. The initiative also opens the possibility to provide free educational resources for self-learners, in terms of informal and lifelong learning.

The OportUnidad project is co-funded with support by the European Commission under the EuropeAidALFA III Programme.

Project's Phases

  • Compendium
  • Agenda
  • Roadmap
  • Course
  • Start Up

Tab1Compendium of European Union – Latin America Open Educational Resource’s practices, based on European Union and Latin America experiences: at least 5 European Union OER and 3 Latin-American practices will be analysed and at least 5 interviews will be carried out with OER experts.

icon Open Educational Resources: cases from Latin America and Europe in higher education (trilingual version) (25.47 MB)

Tab1Definition of the Agenda of OER re-use for university courses development. The Agenda includes aspects and items related to:

  • Pedagogical approaches for OER
  • Technological solutions for OER
  • Organisational frameworks and procederes
  • Institutional business models
  • Cooperative models for OER between institutions

Tab1Roadmap(s) of open educational practices, as a declination of the Agenda to the local, cultural and institutional framework of the 60 Latin-America Higher Education Institutions selected. Based on the Agenda, each university (i.e. partner and non-partner universities involved in the project) defines an institutional roadmap. It is a mid-term strategic plan for the implementation of one or more items of the Agenda that must be considered as a local-contextualised plan in a global strategic plan.

Tab1In order to be able to implement on their universities their own contextualised roadmap of OEP, local teachers and educators are trained to the use of OER. The on-line training course in “Open Educational Practices and Resources” is organized in a logical sequence going from the presentation and framing of the OER movement, until the integration of OER into the faculty course proposals. The Course will be available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. It is an 80 hours on-line training course for university teachers based on previous detected skills. 

Tab1Upon completion of the course participants will actually perform a project work during a 40 hours of assisted start-up of OEP in their universities as part of the implementation of the institutional roadmap. Additionally, the course aims at motivating the faculty to get involved in the OER community and actively participate in the creation and diffusion of OER.

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