Panel Presentation Session OPN23
Driving Large Scale Open Education and MOOC Initiatives
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomCharlottenburg I
Managing large scale projects in a centralised educational environment is no easy feat. The similarities shared by a group of German and Russian universities doing just this will shed light on the challenges, successes and "open questions" of the transition they encountered when they decided to take OER and MOOCs to the next level.
How did they consider local institutional input, technical issues around platforms and portals, qualifications of content creators, licencing user participation and financial models? Join for a discussion around these questions and more.
Martin Riemer
Lecturer,Scientist, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany
Setting up an Open Online University, Grassroot and Expert Level Experiences, Success and Pitfalls
For over 25 years Martin Riemer has been involved in medical 3D-image processing research. This work resulted in a prototype of the subsequently published VOXEL-MAN 3D-Navigator anatomical interactive medical atlases; which helped to introduce 3D virtual body models, made from tomographic data, to medical teaching. In the development group he was mainly responsible for the prototype, the user interface and the MS-Windows implementation of the 3D-Navigator.
Since 2003 he has concentrated on teaching Medical Computer Science and helped setting up eLearning at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), together with a group of eLearning activists.
His special interest is the creation and use of Virtual Patients. He is currently representing the UKE in several expert groups setting up the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU). Being involved in teaching medical students in both real and virtual environments and software engineering he is familiar with pedagogical as well as technical aspects of eLearning.
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Taras Pustovoy
Director, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Russia
A National Platform of Open Education as a Transformational Driver of Higher Education in Russia
Taras Pustovoy, the director of the Center of Innovative Educational Technologies at MIPT. The Center is the leader in creating and integrating new educational technologies in Russia.
In 2015 Taras initiated the creation of the National Platform of Open Education and is currently a member of its Board of Directors. As the head of the technical committee, he was responsible for the design and development of technical solution for the National Platform.
His past experience includes designing and developing several educational platforms for open repositories of educational materials, hybrid schools for K12,online masters programs, mobile apps for science olympiads.
Taras is a recognized expert in online education in Russia and abroad, actively promoting development and implementation of online learning format in high education. Develops the school of the Educational Engineering in MIPT.
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http://mipt.ru/enhttp://phystech.ru
Moderator
Anne Swanberg
Director of LearningLab, EFMD Global Network, Switzerland
Dr. Anne Swanberg is the Project Director of EOCCS, EFMD Global Network Online Course Certification System - a newly launced certification system for online courses within the management and business field. She is also the Director of LearningLab at BI Norwegian Business School which has more than 20,000 students - among them 3,000 online students. LearningLab is a support and innovation senter for teaching, learning and ICT. Dr. Swanberg is also the leader of a national expert panel on digitalization and quality in higher education in Norway. Her research interest is within the field of educational psychology and how we all learn differently (personality and learning styles). The last year she has contributed to the start-up of Oslo EdTech Cluster as a member of the board.