Good morning, I'm Inés Gil-Jaurena, I'm a professor at the Faculty of
Education and also a member of the UNESCO Cathedral of Distant Education.
I'm the only one, I don't think I
have a position in any vice-rectorate.
You're in IDEN, and your link with IDEN is complicated.
So, yes, I'm a member of Eden, which is one of
the European associations of distance education.
In this work package, the UNED, it doesn't have any task or
sub-task that leads, but we do participate in all the tasks.
We started working in February. The coordinator of the work
package is a professor at the University of Berta in Portugal,
and a professor at the University of
Belicota in Arnovo, Bulgaria, coordinates it.
And there are three main tasks, which are, throughout these 48
months, well, 48, no, 46, because we started in the third month,
the formation of what they called the Think and Do Tank
for digital education, which is a group of experts,
formed by members of the universities of OpenEU, but also experts
in digital education who are not part of these institutions,
these universities, but who do have some link with an association
or international or national relevant entity of digital education.
And also in the Think and Do Tank, students from
the universities of OpenEU will be integrated.
And the most imminent milestone is that in June, it is already
established, or it is known, who will be part of this body.
So, right now, it is open, if you are interested in telling
me now or writing to me, it is open, a call for interest,
of people who are interested in participating in
the Think and Do Tank and who have availability,
and then a subcommittee of this work package, which is
formed by four people from the ten institutions of OpenEU,
the eight universities at a distance and the two
universities that are in person, but are part of that ten,
of the core of the central group of OpenEU.
A subgroup will choose who, from the people who have
shown interest, both students and members of OpenEU,
as external members, will form this body, this committee of experts.
So, it won't be many people per institution,
because otherwise it will be an unmanageable volume,
but if you are interested, let me know and I can send you information.
And the link is a form with a lot of information
that you will be asked about experience,
link with digital education, etc.
And, well, among the tasks of this
body will be to develop trends reports,
to analyze which are important points in
the OpenEU agenda in digital education.
So, well, I think it's interesting.
And then, the other two tasks of the Work Package 5 have
to do with the training of face-to-face universities.
And there is a block, which is the last one,
the pilot for digital education within OpenEU,
which is the support to five face-to-face
universities that are in OpenEU, these two main ones, Belicotárnoba in
Bulgaria and the Daugavilas in Latvia,
and three other face-to-face universities
in Albania, Macedonia and Ukraine.
And with these, the first contact has
already started, the first visits in situ,
except in Ukraine, where you won't be
able to make the visit in situ, logically.
It has been the European Commission itself
that has discouraged that you travel there.
It will work from the E-Excellence model of ADDU,
which is a model of quality of distance learning,
E-Learning, in which you participated, Ángeles.
In its design, a simpler adaptation has been made, adapted to OpenEU,
and with that framework of work, it
will accompany these five universities
so that they can establish, throughout the duration of OpenEU,
their own contextualised plans for advances in digital education,
in the areas that each university, together with the advice of OpenEU,
from the experts of Think and Do Tank, etc.
, can make a plan, a pilot, which is implemented, evaluated,
and which helps them advance in the
digitalisation of their universities.
And the last task block, which is the one in the centre,
this one has not started yet, it will start in September,
and it is training in digital education,
but to universities or institutions that are outside OpenEU.
So, through the International Association of Universities,
up to four universities will be selected,
in principle two in Europe and two outside Europe,
that are interested in receiving the support of OpenEU
to establish their own transition processes in digital education.
And, well, right now, this task is the one that has not started yet.
That's all, thank you.
Thank you, Inés.
I would also like to say that the International
Association of European Universities
is part of the non-partnership of rights,
but of partners in the digitalisation of OpenEU.