WHAT?

  • Title: An ENOEL Toolkit: Open Education Benefits.
  • Description: It is a set of tools (slides, leaflets, cards and a card game) prepared by the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL). The toolkit aims to help raise awareness of the importance of Open Education, and it points out benefits for students, teachers, institutions, society and librarians. It comes with a list of references pointing to evidence-based benefits of open education in a diverse range of contexts. ↑

WHO?

  • Authors: members of the European Network of Open Education Librarians.
  • Collaborators: SPARC Europe staff for the communication and the design of the tools, as well as all researchers and practitioners who contributed evidence-based publications on the benefits of Open Education.

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WHY?

  • Evidence-based: all the benefits were extracted by librarians from published articles and research based on data. References are provided in a separate file (English only), together with the tools themselves.
  • Adaptation: the tools are intended to be as easy as possible to adapt to specific contexts to promote open education through its benefits, considering what is more relevant according to local needs. Each tool comes with extended instructions about how to adapt both texts and graphic elements easily, and how to properly attribute the derivative work.
  • Multiple languages: the Toolkit was created in English but is currently available in multiple EU languages and Kazakh. This effort required time and commitment from members who volunteered to translate it, but it is key to being more inclusive, advocating more effectively at the local level, and enabling further adaptations to local needs and priorities.
  • Process: the Toolkit was created through a co-design activity among librarians and facilitators in the ENOEL, and implemented thanks to a collaborative process that focused specifically on creating an easy-to-adapt output, both graphic and content-wise.
  • Empowerment: Librarians took responsibility for using project management templates behind the scenes, understanding the value of having key messages in multiple languages at their disposal. They had the opportunity to work with colleagues from other institutions in small teams and to be recognised for their contribution by the larger Open Education community.
  • Openness: Released under the CC BY license, promotes adaptation to specific local contexts.
  • Finalist for the OE Award of Excellence for the category “Open reuse/remix/adaptation”

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