DEAR EDUCATOR, HOW OPEN ARE YOU?

摘要

The paper focuses on the change process that university teachers need to go through in order to become fluent in the use of Open Education approaches, understood as part of a broader teachers' development process connected with the crisis of Higher Education systems and with the pervasive impact of ICT and social media. We present and discuss the definition of Open Educator that we have developed in the frame of the Open Educators Factory project, a research action aimed to explore how to transform university teachers from agents of resistance into agents of change for openness in education. The definition takes into account both the objects - teaching resources - and the practices -learning design, pedagogical and assessment approaches - of teachers' activities, therefore representing an attempt to go beyond the use of OER when defining the work of educators in open settings. Subsequently, we introduce a self-development framework for teachers, which takes into account all the dimensions of openness included in the definition and which provides teachers with capacity building paths along each dimension.