Content:

Open movements improve education and research relying on long-term ecological agendas, particularly in knowledge societies where science and education are deeply entangled. Through a SNSF supported scientific exchange, A Roadmap for Open Education in Switzerland: First Steps, running September 2021-July 2022, we have 3 specific goals. The first is to identify key stakeholders who are ready to act as change agents in Switzerland. The second is to draft a roadmap on the basis of a critical analysis of relevant Open Education (OE) expert knowledge (Delphi study). The third consists in starting a Swiss Open Education network for the mutualisation of future actions.

Policy support towards OE at federal, cantonal, institutional and individual levels are needed to support practice where a myriad of initiatives have been conducted for several decades (e.g. EduTechWiki, https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/; Promotion for open source software, https://www.ch-open.ch/). The federal message on the support of Education, Research and Innovation is an important decision instrument that sets the direction every 4 years (for the 2021-2024 period: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/fga/2020/866/fr ). Discussions for the 2025-2028 period have started and heading towards Openness in Education and increased Openness in Science is desirable. Policy gives the orientation and then it is institutions’ and practitioners’ role to find creative ways to operationalise these orientations into everyday practice. This is the reason why the Delphi study addressed different topics in addition to policy: defining OE, philosophy, epistemology, values, stakeholders, economic, legal and technological issues.

This session is organised as a 90 mn workshop. First a short presentation will explain how the Delphi study functions. Participants will then work in groups on one of the above-mentioned topics or suggest a new topic that is considered of foremost importance and directly related to designing directions for OE (e.g. OER; AI; sustainability). Working with collected data from Swiss and international OE stakeholders, each group will produce a common understanding for the topic

Time management:

• Before the workshop: introduce yourself on this padlet https://padlet.com/barbara_class/nw29kdzvs92dvlht
• During the workshop: process data from the Delphi study that is available from https://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/class/CH-OE-2022/ ; write the suggested common understanding on this padlet: https://padlet.com/barbara_class/k2hddyblqwfj47g1
• After the workshop: if you are interested to be involved in the Swiss OE project, stay connected. Together and with the support of OE CH organisers brainstorm ways to capitalise on this workshop activity.

Lead Workshop:

This submission is the product of work conducted within a team and the following members will be available to moderate during the workshop - in alphabetic order: Fabio Balli, Barbara Class, Alexandre Enkerli, Sandrine Favre, Denis Gillet, Iris Henseler Stierlin, Michele Notari and Guillaume Tschupp.

Target group:

• Scholars
• Decision makers
• Any other Open Education Stakeholder