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Report on Existing Open Standards EMPOWERING CITIZENS THROUGH STEAM EDUCATION WITH OPEN SCHOOLING DELIVERABLE 3.1 Report on existing Open Standards Authors — Maria Vicente and Pedro Russo (ULEI) Contributors — All partners Disclaimer The information and documentation in this deliverable are written by the OSHub project con- sortium under EC grant agreement No. 824581 and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein. Acknowledgement OSHub has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 824581 2 Document Identification Sheet Submission 29 February 2020 Month Due 31.03.2020 Dissemination level Public Deliverable type Report Deliverable name D3.1: Report on existing Open Standards WP / Task WP 3 Establish Open Science Hub Physical Spaces Number of pages 29 Authors Maria Vicente and Pedro Russo, ULEI Contributors All partners Reviewers Cristina Olivotto, FAB 3 Revision History — REVISION DATE AUTHOR ORGANISATION DESCRIPTION Maria Vicente 25 February 0.1 and ULEI Initial Draft 2020 Pedro Russo 27 February 0.2 Cristina Olivotto FAB Review 2020 Maria Vicente 29 February 0.3 and ULEI Final Version 2020 Pedro Russo 4 List of Acronyms — ACRONYM DEFINITION CC Creative Commons EC European Commission EU European Union FAB Onl’Fait Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the GLOBE Environment HE Higher Education ICT Information and Communication Technology JRC Joint Research Centre LRE Learning Resource Exchange MOOC Massive Online Open Course MS Member States ODS Open Discovery Space OER Open Educational Resources OSHub Open Science Hub OSHub.Network Open Science Hub Network STE(A)M Science, Technology, Engineering (Art) and Mathematics ULEI Leiden University WP Work Package 5 Glossary of Terms — Open Education The European Commission working definition of open education is “a way of carrying out edu- cation, often using digital technologies. Its aim is to widen access and participation to everyone by removing barriers and making learning accessible, abundant, and customisable for all. It offers multiple ways of teaching and learning, building and sharing knowledge. It also provides a variety of access routes to formal and non-formal education, and connects the two.”1 Open Educational Resource According to UNESCO: “Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.”2 1 Open Education – OpenEdu Framework, European Commission, https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/open-education 2 UNESCO – Open Educational Resources (OER), https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer 6 Executive Summary — This document corresponds to Deliverable 3.1: Report on existing Open Standards. This document focuses on the state-of-the-art regarding Open Education and Open Educational Resources, including its relevance and challenges for its effective implementation, the policy ap- proaches across the European Union, and a (living) compilation of Open Educational Resources initiatives. In addition, it prepares the ground to devise the strategy on how Open Science Hubs can support schools opening-up education, namely through the use of Open Educational Resources and other open standard resources in school’s daily life and institutional culture. 7 Table of Contents — Revision History 4 List of Acronyms 5 Glossary of Terms 6 Executive Summary 7 1. Introduction 9 1.1 Background: About OSHub.Network 9 1.2 Purpose of this report 10 2. Opening-up Education 11 2.1 Open Education and Open Educational Resources 11 2.2 Opening-up Education: challenges 13 2.3 Opening-up Education: policy approaches across the European Union 15 2.4 Opening-up Education: Open Licences 16 2.5 Opening-up Education: where does one find OER? 19 3. Opening-up Education: the role of OSHubs 23 4. Conclusion 25 Annex 1 26 8 1. Introduction — 1.1 Background: about OSHub.Network The Open Science Hub Network (OSHub.Network), a consortium of nine partners across Europe, engages schools and local stakeholders in research and innovation as a tool for sustainable com- munity development. More specifically, the OSHub.Network is establishing a European network of community hubs – OSHubs, in communities that traditionally do not engage with research and innovation due to va- rious barriers, geographical location, socio-economic status, or ethnic minority group background. OSHubs inspire, empower and engage citizens – from school children to senior citizens – in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) learning and research opportunities, gro- unded on collaboration with societal agents. As such, local OSHubs work as mediators in their local communities, positioning schools as active agents for collaboration between civil society, enterprises, research institutes, and families. This is performed by promoting an open schooling approach grounded in community-based participatory research practices: throughout this process, schools and communities identify local relevant challen- ges, which are then be transformed into relevant research and innovation projects, led by students and teachers, in collaboration with local stakeholders. The OSHub.Network is developing a common methodological framework, that allows each OSHub to identify and analyse local needs, issues, opportunities and relevant actors, in order to address so- cio-economic, geographical, gender equity issues, and untapped growth potential. Inspired by the “Mission-Oriented Research & Innovation in the European Union”3 approach, developed by Maria- na Mazzucato, OSHub.Network will define a set of Open Schooling Missions, aimed at addressing local relevant challenges linked to the Sustainable Development Goals. These Open Schooling Missions will then constitute the basis for the creation and development of the open schooling projects, enabling real collaboration across communities. Importantly, to ensure diversity, inclusion and sustainability, in each OSHub location, there will be a local management board with represen- tatives from local stakeholder groups – schools (including students), families, research institutes and universities, enterprises, industry, media, local governments, civil society organizations and wider society – which will be involved in all key processes and decisions regarding local OSHub program- mes and initiatives. By supporting local schools and communities with the tools and network to tackle relevant challen- ges, OSHub.Network aims to create local impact while simultaneously promoting an active global citizenship attitude, thus contributing to community development, innovation and well-being. To 3 Mariana Mazzucato (2018), Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union – A problem solving approach to fuel innovation-led growth’, European Commission, Retrieved from: https://ec.europa.eu/ info/sites/info/files/mazzucato_report_2018.pdf 9 encourage usage and maximise impact in Europe and beyond, all resources, products and solutions developed by OSHub.Network will be fully based on Open Standards, such as open education, open technology, open science, open hardware, open design and open architecture. Also, OSHub. Network will create an online platform to share OSHub expertise, resources, and best practices with all OSHubs, their partners and the communities they serve. To ensure the legacy and reach of the project, all OSHub.Network resources will also be shared on existing large online educational repositories, and relevant national networks and repositories. Finally, OSHubs will develop a legacy and sustainability plan, and will work closely with local go- vernments, to ensure that each local OSHub has the tools and resources to continue beyond the lifetime of the project, and that the Open Schooling approach is incorporated in the school vision and organizational structure. By the end of the project, it is expected that the OSHub.Network will have impacted 25 000 stu- dents, 1 250 teachers and 4 000 members of the community, through involvement in more than 150 school-university-industry-civil society partnerships in open schooling projects and activities. In the long-run, we envision OSHubs as education brokers in their local communities, supporting local school networks to incorporate Open Schooling in their vision and organizational structure, leading to sustainable quality of education. Most particularly, OSHubs will facilitate the bridge be- tween the needs and realities of schools and their local context and resources, as well as brokering for implementing national/regional policies, passing along signals from schools when policies are failing and advocating for context-sensitive policies. 1.2 Purpose of this report Open Schooling promotes learning environments where “schools, in cooperation with other stake- holders, become an agent of community well-being”4, by engaging in real-life projects that meet societal needs. In order for Open Schooling to create a real and effective impact, it is fundamental to open-up education, creating the conditions “to widen access and participation to everyone by removing barriers and making learning accessible, abundant, and customisable for all” and by offe- ring “multiple ways of teaching and learning, building and sharing knowledge”5.
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