Educational resources are not free for everyone. UNESCO's definition of OER, while encouraging the free publication of OER and authorizing their reuse, adaptation and redistribution by others, often deprives the authors of the original work of feedback from those who use them. One of the consequences of these OER being released into the wild is the multiplication of efforts to update resources to prevent them from becoming obsolete.
Our approach to Open Education is as follows: to enable the use of training resources developed as part of publicly funded projects in a learning environment, and to ensure the sustainability of training courses by simplifying user contributions on the one hand, and paid support services on the other.
This webinar will present the Kaïros platform (open source under AGPL licence), which provides free access to training (via Edu-ID for the academic community or by creating a local account for other audiences) and where the process of continuous improvement of the quality of educational resources takes place. Two training courses are already available for free access: Digital Skills and Critical AI Literacy for Learning (CAILL).
To ensure the sustainability of content: In the Kaïros learning environment, all stakeholders can contribute to preventing obsolescence by reporting content that is unclear or has become obsolete. These reports are made directly by users and are processed weekly, ensuring that resources are always up to date.
To ensure financial sustainability: We will discuss the economic model for these courses, which is based on an institutional strategy of sustainability rather than disposability: free access to courses for end users, with paid training certificates, and institutional services billed to the institutions that use them in their training programmes (e.g. interfaces for tracking cohorts of learners).
Please note that the session will be conducted in English.
Veranstaltungsdetails:
Mittwoch, 4. März von 12:15 – 13:00 Uhr
Prof. Agrégé Jean-Michel Jullien, Responsable EDUDL+, UniDistance Suisse
