1. Parameters For Success

The success of the project depends on the degree of activation and participation of faculty/IPS as well as the number of open Courses to be developed.

The long-term success of the project will depend on the reception by the general public, which depends on the quality, the way of organization of educational material, as well as the presentation of the pedagogical approach.

Source: Class, http://ocw-project.gunet.gr/eimai-melos-dep-ep/parametroi-epityxias.html

2. Normal and legitimate concerns

H international experience has shown that in every Open Course content development action raised legitimate concerns and complaints from faculty members/OP. The main points of reflection, as reported by the Open Courseware Consortium, is the following:

The presence of students in auditoriums

“My students will not come to the auditorium if the lectures and materials are available online”: one phrase that reflects one of the most common concerns of faculty/OP.

The answer to this concern is the encouragement of faculty/OPS to adapt their teaching method. Having the educational material and recorded lectures a course available online, It is now possible to use them as part of the preparation of students before they come to class. The preparation allows students to better understand the lesson in classroom, on the other hand to faculty members/op to deepen the course and/or to resolve inquiries, something that was not possible due to time constraints. International experience has shown that the presence of students in this course will not be reduced if the faculty members/OP at the beginning of the semester explain the above their students.

Available time

Although it's not uncommon for faculty members/op to develop their own open courses, international practice is the corresponding actions to recruit support staff or students for course development. Staff support activities including the hardware configuration, copyright control and post material on the Internet. This practice follows the work, If the faculty member/IPS to allocate the least possible time.

So, the faculty member/OPS will have the role of mentor and Advisor, will direct the support team, I answered their questions and will proceed to the final testing of the hardware and of course before made public as open lesson. It is not unusual, the process of developing an open course to inspire the faculty members/OP to devote more time to improve their lessons. Continuous improvement of course content, that is one of the basic obligations of faculty/OP, emerging as one of the benefits resulting from the development of open Courses.

Placing educational material

It is frequent occurrence faculty members/op and the Academic Administration to consider the educational material as the culmination of the Curriculum and the essence of their offer for students. The educational material is the main content of the textbooks issued.

Faculty members/IPS who are ardent supporters of open Courses can point to faculty members/OP faced with disbelief open Courses the ways in which the value of the educational material increases when it becomes open available.

Intellectual property

Addressing intellectual property issues are often more a matter of good recordkeeping. A series of tools which are underway can contribute to process optimization. Many more people are willing to share their content than that one would expect and many are excited about the release of their Open Courses.

Subversion books and publications

Most teachers are realistic about the likelihood of profit from the rights of textbooks and published their work. As the profit for publishers is important, teachers may worry that the existence of an open Course can work yponomeytika in their efforts to ensure that such publication or Edition. There are indications that the Open Courses actually promoting the sale of relevant textbooks of teachers and expand the market for these publications as they increase the readability of textbooks of teachers and demonstrate how to use the book in the classroom.

Source: Class, http://ocw-project.gunet.gr/eimai-melos-dep-ep/syni8eis-kai-eyloges-anhsyxies.html

3. Benefits

The following benefits arising from the participation of a FACULTY Member/IPS in action Open Courses create significant incentives for their participation:

Support in the development of courses

A faculty member/OP has no time or technical skills – not required – to develop digital coursework. Also, in General does not know what is the best way of presenting the material in the Internet based educational criteria. The support team, in collaboration with the faculty member, will undertake the development of a new course or upgrading an existing in Online class class. In Particular, the support team will take the following:

• Digitisation of learning materials, If and where required.

• Remodeling presentation files (eg. Powerpoint) and text documents (eg. Word), in order to meet accessibility standards for people with disabilities (People With Disabilities).

• The development of the structure and content of the course, in order to meet the requirements of the Act, concerning technical and pedagogical features.

• The suspension of educational material on the platform that hosts A noikta M 3.

• The methodical address any copyright issues of educational material, as images of books, etc..

• Recording, Edit, development and publication binteodialexewn.

• The live broadcast of lectures.

Continuous improvement of course content

Dealing with the development and maintenance of open Courses creates continual intellectual challenge to improve the content of the course and the practice of teaching.

Opportunity to address copyright issues

The project offers an opportunity for systematically addressing copyright issues that may arise. In Particular, Today the debate on intellectual property issues lies in its heyday, It is important to be answered, both at the individual level and at the level of the Foundation, copyright issues.

Enlargement and audience growth

The development and availability of a digital open access course expands and increases the audience who is studying the object.
The audience of an open Course exceeds the Department's students who attend a particular course. Can be extended to other students the same institution Department, students of other Institutions, graduates of the Department or other departments with the same or similar object.

Development and distribution binteodialexewn

Binteodialexewn logging requires technical support by expert team.

For those faculty members/OP is interested in recording binteodialexewn, their participation in such action will provide this feature.

Strengthen the reputation and visibility of textbooks

The international practice has shown that the availability of open Courses from faculty members/OP helps promote their textbooks. It should be noted that the availability of electronic books is not the subject or target of the project.

Strengthening the reputation of the academic Department and Foundation

It is obvious that the number and quality of open courses in an academic department or of the Foundation strengthens their image, compared to departments or institutions that have fewer or no Open Courses.

The good picture is one of the factors that attracts the best students to choose a specific department or Institution in order to attend to this.

Course creators community participation as an active member

The participation in action is an opportunity for a faculty member/op to be an active member of the community digital developer courses, both at the level of the Foundation, and at national level.

Source: Class, http://ocw-project.gunet.gr/eimai-melos-dep-ep/ofelh.html

3. Faq

Why to deal with open Courses;

Please refer to the page that describes in detail the benefits from the participation of faculty/OP off Courses.

Since I already have course material in the-Class, What will the above work;

It has been found that many faculty members/IPS use the platform e–Class as a repository of educational material, without a structure or form to provide information about the course. Faculty members/OP do not have necessary technical skills, nor do they know the best way of organizing and presenting the content of e-courses. The aim of the project is the upgrading of the structure, on the other hand of course content, in order to meet specific requirements. Extra, There will be a faculty support team/OP in the development process of open Courses.

The support team:

• Will assist in the reorganization of the structure and content of a course outline to a wholeness that follows the specifications of the project

• Will shape the educational material, as slides and notes, in order to be more accessible to People with Disabilities

• Will manage, in collaboration with the faculty member, any questions concerning copyrights

• Will record and process multimedia material, as binteodialexeis.

Extra, open classes will be available through the portal Open horizontal national Courses.

How much time you have to devote to the development of an open Course;

Depends on whether the course belongs to the category of courses with minimum requirements or in the category of courses with full specifications. The development of the course will take the support team. The role of the FACULTY Member/OPS will be consulted, IE will provide educational material together with guidelines to the support team and will control the final score before made public.

The process of developing a course with full specifications are more time consuming, as faculty member/OP should check all the binteodialexewn.

The action can digitize material available but not in digital format;

Yes, can, sufficient to constitute a small part of the total material, as the project is based on the assumption that the majority of FACULTY members/OP already has training materials, as slides and notes, in digital format.

What is the frequency of video lectures;

All lectures courses with full specifications will be televised. So, If a course is taught 4 hours per week, then will come a series of binteodialexewn with 52 episodes, lasting one hour each. This series will correspond to a specific academic semester, will be processed and will be available as open source multimedia content of the course.

The next academic year, some sections of the course will be able to be filmed again, provided that you do so in an automatic way, providing an Open Lesson update. This, in no case does not mean that every academic year, I originally created the Open course with resources in the project "open classes at the University of Athens».

Will stop coming students in auditoriums;

This question relates to the disposal of Internet binteodialexewn. Perhaps I should rephrase the question as follows: "Why come today students in auditoriums; These reasons will cease to exist after the placing of the Internet binteodialexewn;»

International experience has shown that the presence of students in this course will not be reduced if the faculty members/OP explaining to students at the beginning of the semester that the available binteodialexeis are part of their preparation for the face-to-face lesson.

The Internet marketing binteodialexewn creates conditions for increase of the potential audience of the lesson. Relevant research work showed that the live broadcast of the courses at the Department of Informatics and telecommunications, University of Athens broadened his audience a lesson, as it allowed students to attend lessons anyway would lose, because either he was sick, either they had decided to attend the courses of the morning zone and could not stay on the campus during the evening course area. In any case stated that they prefer to attend face-to-face tutorials. Extra, considered extremely beneficial recording and disposition of Internet binteodialexewn. End, placing binteodialexewn on the Internet enables students to resume monitoring of the lecture, something that until now was not possible.

How can I use material without having to worry about copyright issues;

In the context of the project will be given instructions and management mechanism will be created to copyright issues.

Can I protect the copyrights of my educational materials;

Yes, selecting specific licenses educational material. Typical example are the licenses Creative Commons License. Under the project would provide instruction related to the management of copyright.

Y take a participation fee for the FACULTY Member/OP;

Remunerated for faculty members/IPS involved in the development of courses with full specifications, on checking the content of the binteodialexewn before the final publication on the Internet.

Source: Class, http://ocw-project.gunet.gr/eimai-melos-dep-ep/syxnes-erwtiseis.html

4. How do I declare participation;

You will need to contact the representative in your Department, which constitutes the link with the institutional implementation of the project or team with the scientific responsible of the project Mr Ilia Goynopoylo.