We were involved in organising a NIPS workshop titled “Prioritising Online Content”. The event featured spotlights and presentatiosn from accepted papers, and keynotes by Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield and Aris Gionis, Aalto University.
We kicked-off a new international partnership for innovation in higher education at the Baden Wurttemberg Cooperative State University.
MicroHE adresses the hot topic in higher education in Europe today, namely developing the recognition for microcredentials and nanodegrees, for micro learning episodes, open and online.
The international partnership consist of eight selected partners: Tampere University (Finland), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), the Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), Knowledge Innovation Centre (Malta), and the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Italy) as well as the Kowledge 4 All Foundation (UK).
Communia international association on the digital public domain and other stakeholders organised a meeting in Brussels with the objective to familiarise ourselves with the current stakes in the copyright debate surrounding education in the light of the main legislative instrument for the ongoing review of the EU copyright Directive for Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM directive). This directive, proposed by the European Commission in September 2016 is currently being discussed in the European Parliament and among the Member States of the EU in the European Council.
K4A trustee Colin de la Higuera has won the Informatics Europe 2017 Best Practices in Education Award for his Class’Code project. The project is part of the extended portfolio of open educational technologies comng from our think tank and the K4A catalogue.
We attended an exciting event in Brussels on the 17th October 2017, in order to spark collaboration among all H2020 media related projects managed by Unit DG CONNECT-I4.
We presented X5GON at an Investor Meeting – a one day event packed with insight, advice and collaboration, hosted by
On Sept 18-19, the OER community turned out to enjoy a much needed technology mapping excersize day at the 2nd World OER Congress in Ljubljana. The goal was to present the OER landscape and its challenges, to researchers and techies. The event was, once again, a great success, and we hope all participating enjoyed it as much as we did.
The kick-off was in parallel with the 2nd UNESO World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress and Artificial Intelligence: Research, Technology and Business in OER satellite event, both designed and organized by X5GON personnel. Key results of both events are the Dynamic Coalition in OER, Ljubljana OER Action Plan Document and Ministers Statement.
The kick-off focused on the fivefold solutions offered by X5GON to global OER sites:
K4A is co-organizing a satellite at the 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18 – 20 September 2017
This is the result of K4A role in creating machine learning technologies for open education. The satellite we are running is Artificial Intelligence: Research, Technology and Business in OER where we will present the latest activities in a series of efforts to showcase the potential of products for Open Educational Resources (OER). With this conference K4A is showing its commitment in taking actions to push forward the global agenda on OER.
K4A has been awarded an Erasmus+ project to design, create and test the policy framework for micro-credentials in Europe – an ambitious but realistic target.
The MicroHE project is explicitly designed to match several of the priorities of the EU strategy on higher Education. The project contains partners from across Europe, to ensure a balance in perspectives and types of education system.
Certain elements of testing will be limited to participating countries for reasons of practicality, all research, policy recommendations and in particular surveys and consultations, will be made at EU Level.
