The Need to Change Education towards Open Learning

The need to change education is discussed and Open Learning Concept is presented and adapted for improving school education. Open Learning aims at the balance between learning innovation and quality for modernizing learning, education and training. Learning innovation and learning quality are very often addressed separately and solely. But in fact they are interdependent and have to be reflected both for achieving the best learning quality: This article discusses how to achieve the best appropriate learning quality as the core objective in learning, education and training. Only their mix can ensure to meet the learners' needs and to provide the best and appropriate learning opportunities and learning quality: The presented Open Learning concept aims at modernizing and opening up education for fitting to the given situation and for a long-term and sustainable improvement across all sectors in learning, education and training, all communities, educational and training systems and societies in Europe and worldwide

MOOQ: For the Quality of Open Education and MOOCs

MOOQ is the European Alliance for Quality of Massive Open Online Courses, called MOOCs. The vision of MOOQ is to foster quality in MOOCs leading to a new era of learning experiences

ICORE - The International Community for Open Research and Education

ICORE is the global initiative to connect the two worlds of Open Research (OR) and Open Education (OE) for mutual benefits

Is Open Education a revolution or are MOOCs only marketing instruments?

Paper presentation at the Open Education Global Conference 2016, Krakow, Poland, by Stracke, C. M. (2016, 13 April): "Is Open Education a revolution or are MOOCs only marketing instruments?"MOOQ project, co-funded by the European Commissio

MOOQ for the quality of MOOCs

Presentation at the 25th EDEN Annual Conference 2016, Budapest, Hungary, by Stracke, C. M. (2016, 15 June): "MOOQ for the quality of MOOCs"MOOQ project, co-funded by the European Commissio