The overarching goal of OpenMed is to raise awareness and facilitate the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in the Arab Mediterranean countries, with a particular focus on higher education in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Palestine.
OpenMed fosters the role of universities as knowledge providers not only to their on-campus students but also beyond the walls of institutions, especially towards disadvantaged groups (e.g. low income peoples, disabled students, people living in rural areas, learners at risk of low achievement, refugees, etc.).
Project objectives:
- Raise awareness and widen higher-education institutions participation in open educational practices and resources.
- Define the OER Agenda for the re-use of OER at higher-education institutional levels.
- Define mid-term strategic roadmaps for the implementation of the OER Agenda at local-institutional level according to the local, cultural, and institutional needs and strategies.
- Instruct university teachers how to use and reuse OER in a pedagogically-rich context and improve their digital competences.
- Pilot start-up open educational practices and offer to students flexible and up to date open contents and learning paths, with a linkage to the international community and the needs of the job market.