Open, online, flexible and technology-enhanced education
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Introduction
Open, online, flexible and technology-enhanced education (OOFAT) is a naming of open online education that probably appeared in the 2000's. I could be related to people who associated with technolog-enhanced learning (TEL).
For Ebba Ossiannilsson, a distance education and quality specialist, associates OOFAT with open online distance learning
Tools
Any educational technology, instructional design model / pedagogic strategy, etc. can be of interest. However, one can image development of specific technical and conceptual components...
VTT Box
- VTT-BOX (Virtual teachers' toolbox), a EU Earasmus project aims to create a special virtual toolbox for teachers as a sophisticated tool for developing Open Online Distance Learning (OODL). According to their [ website] (retrieved May 7, 2019), The teachers’ toolbox is a web-based service for course developers and assists teachers in creating high quality distance learning courses.
- Is a completely new developed tool and does not yet exist in similar way in the teaching landscape
- Offers an innovative agile and unlimited approach
- Aims to support teachers and trainers in course creation
- Addresses teachers (trainers) as target group
- Provides innovation focusing on course creation, quality enhancement and using technology enhanced teaching (in the way of Online Distance learning)
In total, the box includes eight different tools:
- Developing the course structure
- List of (possible) activities
- List of quality criteria (split in thre different items)
- Aid for course evaluation
- Tool for the competency definition
- Tool to create the self-evaluation mandala
- Checklists for the course (evaluation of outcomes, quality enhencement, active learning)