Cahiers du LLL n ° 6 bis – 2020

Open education is a term you have probably heard, but do you know what it
means? As its name suggests, it relates to two concepts – openness and
education – but it means a whole lot more. What are its aims, benefits and
limits? This guide offers a number of tips and avenues for action to help
answer these questions and encourage you to make the most of open education.
There is a strong focus on open education in the Louvain 2020 strategic plan.
UCLouvain wishes to align itself with a vision of the future and the need to
share resources, practices, knowledge, tools and more in order to improve
access to education, including outside the confines of the University, and
education itself.
The open education movement is already well established at UCLouvain. Many
teachers have shown an interest and have already embraced it. What about you?
This guide is intended to help you navigate open education. It explains
concepts such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open Educational
Resources (OERs), OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Creative Commons (CC) licences.
We hope you find it interesting and useful!