Open, online, flexible and technology-enhanced education

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 technology enhanced learning (TEL).

OOFAT includes Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

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)