Champions Archive

Melissa Highton
Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services; Assistant Principal Online Learning
University of Edinburgh
UK
“OER fits with universities’ missions as civic institutions by extending access to education”

Prof. Robert Schuwer
Professor in Open Educational Resources
Fontys University of Applied Sciences, School of ICT
The Netherlands
“Open Education needs to talk to the passion of teaching”

Antonio Martinez-Arboleda
Teaching Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education
University of Leeds
UK
“Librarians are crucial to realizing Open Education as they are in charge of organizing knowledge”

Dr Chrissi Nerantzi
Reader in Academic CPD
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
UK
“Through sharing, we can connect with other people and diverse ideas, as a collective and as a society”

Catherine Cronin
Strategic Education Developer
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
Ireland
“How can we do better? How can we meet the needs particularly of those who are marginalized?”

Costas Papadopoulos
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studies
Maastricht University
The Netherlands
“As educators we need to share our teaching material to as wide an audience as possible”

Prof. Ebba Ossiannilsson
Chair ICDE OER Advocacy Committee and Vice President Swedish Association for Distance Education
ICDE OER Advocacy Committee
Sweden
“We need to see Open Education in the wider ecosystem of openness”

Kamil Śliwowski
Blogger and trainer
Otwartezasoby.pl blog / Sektor 3.0
Poland
“We have to think about how copyright can really serve teachers and learners”

Giulia Boggiali
student
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
“My dream would be to have a centralized OER repository for students like GitHub”

Prof. Ana Moura Santos
Assistant Professor in Dept. of Mathematics, MOOC Técnico Coordinator
University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico
Portugal
“My strategy is to keep things open, however, I cannot do that every time”

Prof. Marcelo Fabián Maina
Professor of Dutch and Academic Communication
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Spain
“The OER approach opens new ways of creating courses”

Prof. Marc van Oostendorp
Professor of Dutch and Academic Communication
Radboud University
The Netherlands
“Open Education does not threaten the teacher’s job, it makes it easier in many ways”

Jacques Dang
Secretary of the Board of Directors L'Université Numérique, Paris, France
L'Université Numérique
France
“Extend the reach of higher education beyond the walls of universities”

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