About the Open Educators Factory project

The Open Educators Factory project aims at improving the capacity of university educators to use open approaches in their daily teaching work. Detailed information on the project can be found at http://wikieducator.org/Research/open_educators_factory.

The project results have been presented in the following papers:

• Nascimbeni, F. and Burgos, D. (2016). In search for the Open Educator: proposal of a definition and a framework to increase openness adoption among university educators. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. Vol 17, N. 6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v17i6.2736.
• Nascimbeni, F., Burgos, D., Campbell, L & Tabacco, A. (2018). Mapping Open Educational Practices within universities: a case study. Distance Education, 39:4, 511-527, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2018.1520040.
• Nascimbeni, F. and Burgos, D. (2019). Unveiling the Relationship between the Use of Open Educational Resources and the Adoption of Open Teaching Practices in Higher Education. Sustainability, 11(20), 5637. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205637.

The OEF project has been presented in a number of occasions, including the EDEN Conference in 2016 , the 2017 Open Education Week , the OER17 Conference, one webinar organised by the Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research (CIDER), the INTED Conference in 2018. Also, OEF organised a Satellite Event within the UNESCO Second OER World Congress, titled "OER and the importance of Open Educators".