 Hello everybody, my name is Bente Lukac, I'm here with my colleague Benjamin Hoijlich. We are from the University of Passau in Germany and today we're going to talk a little bit about our project, the Road to Open University and it's a teacher education project that we're going to present to you kind of what we did during the project and our thoughts and research ideas behind the project or the connections to open education resources and open science. If you want to follow the presentation you can scan the QR code or you will find the slides in the connect platform or just put in this link and you get to the presentation. So if you want to scan it I'll leave it up a little bit, all right, all right, so where is Passau? Passau is at the border, it's in south of Germany in Bavaria and it's at the border to Austria so we are kind of maybe a little bit isolated when it comes to broader Germany because we're quite far away from say the bigger cities, Munich is the next closest big city so in that sense every project that we work on especially at the university works kind of by its own rules I guess also some Bavarian rules I guess we'll get to that later as well. So in case you're at a computer later if you want to open up the presentation if you click on the S button you get the presentation view where we put in a couple of more information, little bit more explanations about some things we talk about and also the navigation with our slides is a bit different so you can use arrow keys and go to the left and to the right so if you open up the presentation and you start to go down that's where our presentation starts and then we go to the next page and by escape I don't know if it works on mobile as well but on a computer if you click escape you see the whole presentation can navigate to the slides specifically. So what we're going to talk about today are basically two big things or give an overview about the work we do. One is the structures that we have to work with in teacher education in Germany then give an overview about the project itself and what kind of role it plays in the university and also how it sort of embeds in the open science framework I guess. We purposely use the open science recommendation here because in our thinking and in our work the open science idea I guess is the foundation for everything we like to do so OER is just basically on top of it. You will see later how OER comes into our work but our foundation is basically open science. So the structures I'm not going to go into detail too much because this is quite specific and it's also not super interesting to talk about the I guess the policy structures and how Germany is set up in the federal states and how the funding lines work. We linked a lot of the things here you can see in the slides that if you click on the various parts you get to further information about that. I guess the only important thing is that it's embedded in a funding line specifically that deals with quality in teacher education and also it's a federal structure in Germany so each federal state kind of plays by its own rules sort of. I guess what's interesting is that we have a lot of student teachers actually at the university which is quite nice because we can with this type of project we can kind of push the university towards change in the bigger picture. So the open structures also I'm going to just mention them briefly. We set up an OER policy in the beginning of the project to kind of function as a guiding document for the lectures that we have who designed various courses and work with students on OER so that kind of helped us all the way through. We started a cooperation with the virtual university in Bavaria. I will come to that later as well to publish OER material and I guess the main parts are our innovation labs which will also come up later and just the entire focus of digital literacy and information immediate literacy which was also kind of the basis of the project and obviously the way teacher education works at the university of Passau and the way the project is embedded is that lectures should or want to pass on basic ways of working with digital tools to the student teachers so it's kind of an entire cultural I guess education as well which will make sense later when we get to the innovation labs and how we use them. I'm going to give it all to Benjamin to talk about that. Yes thank you very much. This is now more into our topic talking about opening up a university. We just saw some maybe rigid rich structures and some open structures and when it comes to opening up a university which seems to be a really big and like really time consuming project which it is I want to focus on something specific which is cooperation and participation especially in our project and in teacher education in general. So the graphic on the bottom which will we see later maybe modified will guide us through this content we see here. So we want to establish cooperative structures and that's kind of difficult in Germany. We have seen some of these rigid structures in the beginning but also teacher education in general is always constructed by states in Germany and they are really strictly ruled by maybe slow paced policy decisions and so on. So we wanted to implement new formats of teaching as well learning and interplay of higher education and schools and that's where cooperation and collaboration comes in and we think that especially when we think of teacher education sometimes only goes one way which is from university especially in the first phase from university to society so we build teachers we educate teachers so they can educate students and other people. And we want to do it so we have maybe do it both ways so we can have some insights from society and we will see later in what structures we can do that. And that comes with some special OER materials we are trying to implement so we are on the conceptual level with OER materials which is seminars or lectures which can both be used in schools and the universities and on the deductical level so we just try to test some methods and some digital structures we will see later in our innovation labs. So for now keeping this in mind university uses science education to do something with society but of course as he mentioned we are using these recommendations for us some of you might have seen them already they the UNESCO recommendations they consist out of three main areas just skip them for now skip them for now we are focusing on as I said on the part above which is about collaborations and of course sharing information to society with society and back so our goal is to maybe implement in both phases of teacher education in Germany which is maybe there's this there's a third one which which comes later but it's we both mostly talk about both phases the first and the second. The first one is rooted in the university which is mostly just subjects and scientific knowledge and teacher education inside the university and the institutions university institutions opening up these structures would mean we have to observe society of course because we have to teach future teachers what they have to teach the students which I said the curricula are very strict so the subjects are always in place but there are some things in society happening all the time right so technology technological advancements political decision-making and some societal discrepancies for example so we have to implement these in phase one and opening up this phase would mean we need more eyes and ears to observe society right so talk to us inside this is the university to what can you do with new technology for example or how can we react to new developments or social norms that are changing all the time phase two is more practical oriented they teachers go to schools and have one or two years practical practical work in schools and they come back and share their experience with us with us in the university so opening up this phase would mean just don't close our university doors and just let them let them go they have these state exams and they can go on with their life they would come back from time to time share experiences and we would invite other social actors and social workers for example so we use structures inside the university and we will see them in a second the dialectical innovation labs where we meet collaborate talk but still we don't have a real method how we can do that and how we can achieve really the way back from society into university and that's why we think and we are convinced that it's necessary to find a common ground and we think that we should use the scientific method not only in the first phase but also in the second phase as a way of collaborate so participation of society on the basis of the imperative of the scientific method would be a good way to achieve a common ground and to use the data from society to work with the data to use the experiences from teachers and to work inside the university in these structures we see in a second and why we use this what we think this method would be the best thing to do similar to the SDGs we think we identified some discrepancies or even colliding values and principles when you think of the SDGs maybe there is number eight and number 13 which is economical growth and climate action basically which are always colliding right you can have it both ways and you have to work it out somehow and I think we identified some of these here as well like responsibility respect and accountability you can see there and the quality and integrity or collaboration so when we think about involving every stakeholder and the passive participation opening up everything maybe there is a lack of quality in the scientific research because then maybe normative the scientific objectivity would be deluded by normative principles or opinions or maybe too too much of talking and not researching so there's some colliding principles that that's what we think we should choose one method for everything build it as a solid base and work on that so promoting a common understanding of open science on the basis of the scientific method would associate benefits and challenges which is really the most important thing because in the recommendation the UNESCO said we all have to think of different paths to achieve open science and that's what we do and we chose the path which is mostly rooted in scientific research and apart from that not only have you have you have to choose different paths but we have to find incentives and rewards right for our professors for lecturers because our experience is it's always nice to talk about open science and open principles but all the professors they want to have something right they want to just okay that's my data that's my research I understand open science but I need some incentives for me for my students and for my people I work with so these things combined are in our from our perspectives in the light of university-based teacher education the things we want to achieve on the basis of the UNESCO recommendation and of course that's where we show where we do all these things and we have some of our digital the tactical innovation labs for you in our presentation we come back to this graphic at the at the end but for now we see something has changed already at I was talking about open university on the basis of the theory and method of scientific research and then we have collaboration with society but after a few pictures of our structures we can have that's that's fine we can come back to this graphic all right now a couple of the practical examples that we had in a project the open work hub was one of the I guess collaboration structures that we tried to implement which kind of goes against like traditional professional development structures in teacher education it was more of an open space where the goal was to build smaller groups based on topics that were interesting to the lecturers themselves and we just bring them together sort of with the infrastructure of certain rooms and then we let them work basically by themselves and maybe come back to the room and then create their materials as well like I mentioned the collaboration part especially with the sharing of the material was also quite interesting in Germany because there every federal state wants to build its own basically repository or any structure it has to be something that's unique to the federal state itself so what we did we didn't want to build anything new as a university we just said you know what let's try to find somebody in Bavaria who works with maybe online education more and let's collaborate with them and then we talked to this virtual university Bavaria as it happened they set up an OER repository for their own materials so we started collaborating with them so our material can be on this repository which is quite nice actually this is one of our innovation rooms you can maybe click through them by yourself because it's an interactive thing so you can click around and check what we have we have three of them basically it's a class room we have a teacher's lounge as well or a teacher's room of the future very innovative I think most universities have some kind of lab because it's kind of a cool thing to have nowadays also in the co-working space which promotes even more this open innovation and collaboration idea because this is not a traditional room that you kind of have to book and do something like do lectures in it or seminars in it it's mostly about meeting up brainstorming using the computers to create material and just get together and talk about whatever is on the mind of the lecture so that's where it kind of finishes with our basically goal is to build on the scientific method and research in these rooms how we can try new teaching methods that are digital and innovative but also obviously for us media pedagogy media that that takes is the also the foundation of everything and the last few parts we actually mentioned it's about cooperation and collaboration across the university as well in teacher education with schools and ideally obviously with everyone else as well and openness in practice is that we produce most of our whatever seminar concepts and ideas as we are so it's openly licensed and it can be accessed through various platforms and now to finish off the finish on that last note that slide here we see that we have maybe achieved the way back from society maybe back through the university when we meet in these kind of structures all together chair experiences work on the basis of the scientific methods that means using the data using the methods and be really strict with the method and then you invite every time we invite new teachers and new students to share their ideas not only teachers and students we talk about shareholders stakeholders and social actors because we think that maybe it sounds a little paradoxical but to be that strict with the method we can open up what university used to do just in one way and we can go the other way as well and work together on in the center on the scientific method and that because we know we are always a little bit short on time I want to end on this one we want to go into iteration with you as well so we have a little board for you you can visit when you click on this link you will end up here we have some questions prepared for you just grab a sticky note on the side and please give us some feedback you can see the questions over there questions are welcome now as well but if you have some feedback any feedback as well we are happy to talk to you and thank you very much for your attention