Open Education: Fundamentals and Approaches

Welcome to the OpenMed course Open Education: fundamentals and approaches, A learning journey of opening up teaching in Higher Education

The course “Open Education: fundamentals and approaches”, produced within the OpenMed project with the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, aims to build capacity on Open Education and Open Educational Resources (OER) among universities in the South Mediterranean region.

In the first 10 weeks of the course, learners will go through five Modules (one module every two weeks), where they are expected to read the content and to perform some learning activities (tests, forum discussions, etc.). At the end of each Module learners will have to draft a first step of their project work, defining the different components of their project. The estimated needed time for this phase is 40 hours in total.

The course targets primarily university teachers with an interest in learning more about Open Education and with a motivation to adopt Open Education approaches and OER into their teaching.

In the following two months, learners will focus on their Project Work, planning how they will transform their teaching practice by adopting open approaches. The project work will be defined through the "Steps" that learners will design at the end of each module, and will represent the main outcome of the course for every learner, on which the achieved competencies will be evaluated. The estimated needed time for this phase is 40 hours in total.