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<div class=""><span class="">I am writing to share the exciting news that the </span><a href="https://rd.unir.net/pub/oef/login.php" class="">Open Educators Factory</a> platform has just reached 1000 users, so I am taking the chance to send you some information
about the tool, to explore your interest of using it within your university.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Open Educators Factory</b> is<span class=""> a self-assessment and capacity building web-tool targeted to university educators, aiming at increasing their capacities in using Open Education approaches, in terms not only of OER but
also of open course design, open teaching strategies and open assessment. </span>We have successfully piloted the tool with around 200 users at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy (see a <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01587919.2018.1520040?journalCode=cdie20" class="">paper</a> about
this)</div>
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<div class="">This is how the platform works. P<span class="">rofessors register and fill a very short </span><span class="">(9 questions / 5 minutes) </span><span class="">questionnaire on </span><span class="">their actual knowledge and capacity to use open
approaches, and they </span>receive an immediate feedback showing their level of fluency with respect to open design, open content, open teaching and open assessment, together with some tailored <span class="">recommendations on things to read, videos to watch,
courses to take (that he can download in pdf for future use).</span><span class=""> </span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="">Additionally, the university/department manager </span>
<span class="">can see (through a special login) how all the staff of his/her university/department perform with respect to the different openness dimensions. This can be useful to use internal expert staff to build capacity of less-expert colleagues for example.</span></div>
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<div class="">The whole thing is free of charge and part of an open research project. <span class="">Our interest is to get as many educators as possible to use the tool, so that we can get (anonymous) data on which to run </span><span class="">our</span><span class=""> research.
And </span><span class="">we can do this research together, in case you manage to get enough educators to use the tool.</span></div>
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<div class="">Feel free to contact me in case you want to use the tool in your university.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="">All the best </span></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Fabio Nascimbeni</b></div>
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Assistant Professor of eLearning Innovation<br class="">
Director of the Telefonica Chair on Digital Society and Education<br class="">
Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED)</div>
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Universidad Internacional de La Rioja <br class="">
T: (+34) 91 567 43 91<br class="">
<a href="mailto:fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net" class="">fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net</a></div>
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