ENCORE+ – European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education
The European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+) responds to the European priorities of opening up and modernising education and training through the creation of a network that supports innovation and entrepreneurship with OER.
Within the three-year project, the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, represented by the Next Education working group, is collaborating with 9 European project partner organisations from science and industry to develop a European OER innovation area by connecting stakeholder communities and fostering knowledge exchange. ENCORE+ realises a new vision for collaboration and connection between OER repositories in a European OER Ecosystem, encouraging entrepreneurship and empowerment through OER. ENCORE+ fosters the uptake of OER in Europe by stimulating the integration of organisational strategies for OER in business & academia.
The following results will be developed:
- A validated, shared vision and roadmap for OER in Europe
- Creation and pilot the ENCORE+ OER Quality Framework
- An European OER Strategy Guidelines for higher education & businesses
- A well connected European OER Ecosystem of technologies & communities
www.encoreproject.eu
Time Period
November 2020 - October 2023
Project Coordinator
International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
Project partner
International Council for Open and Distance Education, Norway
The Open University, United Kingdom
Universidad Internacional De La Rioja, Spain
Knowledge 4 All Foundation, United Kingdom,
Joubel, Norway
Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Instructure Global, United Kingdom
Dublin City University, Ireland
Funding
Erasmus+
Funding amount
993.028,00€ total budget
201.561,00€ DHBW Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Ulf-Daniel
Ehlers
Director of the Researchgroup and Professorship for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning
Prof. Dr. Ulf-Daniel
Ehlers
Director of the Researchgroup and Professorship for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning
This report, based on expert interviews, has been produced by the Encore+ project to examine credentialing methodologies in the European OER ecosystem. It is intended to provide impetus to discussion, and so to move forward both debate on the topic and practice in the field.
The report is framed by three educational discourses that converge in the domain of OER:
1) Interoperable representation of learning achievement, including the use of badges.
2) Increasing focus on microcredentials, especially in the context of workplace
learning
3) Competence-based human resources management