UNESCO will develop the organizational and strategic framework for the Open Educational Quality Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse will serve two functions:
- To act as a register of EU organizations promoting a charter of “Quality and Innovation through OEP”. The Charter will comprise
a self-assessment concept in the form of a maturity model for organisations, and peer-review
- To peer-review OER and OEP on the basis of quality criteria and to make them available within the framework of a specially developed extension of the UNESCO Open Training Platform
A quality framework for OEP will also be developed. This aims at assessing open educational resources in conjunction with and not separate from their OEP (usage concept and context) and focuses especially on aspects like learner autonomy, innovative, novel and open pedagogical approaches.
The quality criteria will be validated through these pilot reviews and shared with other existing repositories, so that these can also identify high quality OEP.
It is further envisaged that the OEP Quality Monitor will be incorporated into the UNESCO OER wiki, that UNESCO will continue to contribute to the awarding of the OEP Innovation and Quality Award on an annual basis with EFQUEL and ICDE, and that the Consultative Group on OEP will be hosted on a sustainable basis through EFQUEL in collaboration with UNESCO. The aim is thus to concert initiatives and efforts existing in the EU with a view to connect them to international debate and make the EU a lighthouse region for OEP.