{"id":619,"date":"2022-03-28T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T09:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/?p=619"},"modified":"2022-05-04T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T17:22:44","slug":"connect-international-seminar-on-open-schooling-uk-br","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/2022\/03\/28\/connect-international-seminar-on-open-schooling-uk-br\/","title":{"rendered":"CONNECT UK-Brazil Knowledge Exchange Seminar on Open Schooling with fun participatory approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Knowledge Exchange Seminar on Open Schooling UK-BR was organised by Dr. Okada , scientific coordinator of\u00a0 CONNECT and member of Rumpus Research group.<\/p>\n<p>CONNECT &#8211; inclusive open schooling with engaging future-oriented science is funded by the European Union and by two Brazilian Universities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.22.23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1266\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.22.23.png 1266w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.22.23-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.22.23-768x446.png 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.22.23-1024x595.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This event was held in Milton Keynes on the 22nd of March 2022. The seminar brought together 30 experts in the field to discuss open education, participatory design, emerging technologies as well equity, diversity and inclusion. Its aim was\u00a0 to\u00a0 provide a forum for academics and non-academics (from enterprises) to present their work in a straightforward format, on issues that are relevant to open schooling.<\/p>\n<p>To make it more inclusive the event at Berrill Theather was in Portuguese Language, livestream, recorded and shared.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2eWZW4XsK7A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The OU speakers were Alexandra Okada (WELS) who opened the event and presented open schooling in Europe, Roberta Davies (EDI) talked about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Lara Piccolo (STEM-KMi) discussed about participatory design of a chatbot with children.\u00a0 In addition, the OU research fellow visitor Prof. Alexandre Marino Costa presented his research that started with Dr. Okada about Augmented Reality in Brazil &#8211; project funded now by the Brazil Government using open schooling. Various examples were discussed to enhance innovation ecosystems with open schooling for tackling the societal challenges of our world. The Bett-Brazil speakers were from various enterprises including Lenovo, Samsung, Kroton Education,EduInfo, Fore Education, Bedu Tech; universities: FATEC, UFSC, Jundiai, Maua, and schools: Lourenco Castanho, Language School, Marista,&#8230; and policy makers from UNDIME &#8211; a large Union of Municipalities in Education.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-18.21.14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1442\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-18.21.14.png 1442w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-18.21.14-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-18.21.14-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-18.21.14-1024x422.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The poster session enabled participants to obtain and discuss information about open schooling and research developed during the 1st year of the project\u00a0 CONNECT.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-15.58.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"888\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-15.58.56.png 888w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-15.58.56-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-15.58.56-768x427.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Open schooling CONNECT network engaged a full range of R&amp;I stakeholders: researchers and research organisations, policy makers at national and regional level, business and industry representatives, science education members, and civil society organisations of Brazil. It\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">encouraged discussion, fostered improved understanding and\u00a0 enabled opportunities for more in-depth engagement with the UNESCO Agenda 2030, the EU Green Deal and The NEW-GREEN DEAL of BRAZIL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During this event, the CONNECT policy report was launched. Three workshops were organised.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-659 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.08.05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.08.05.png 1038w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.08.05-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.08.05-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.08.05-1024x622.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-660 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.33.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.33.png 1028w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.33-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.33-768x471.png 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.33-1024x628.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1070\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.14.png 1070w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.14-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.14-768x392.png 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.07.14-1024x523.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Various relevant questions and opportunities for partnerships were discussed: What does &#8220;open schooling means&#8221; for our organisations? What are the key principles of Equity &#8211; Diversity and Inclusion to support open schooling for all? What are the initiatives that bring together education, enterprise and society? What are the examples of participatory design that engages students, teachers, families and researchers to produce innovation to address students&#8217; real-life problems? What are the best practices of open schooling with emerging technologies, for example, augmented reality?<\/p>\n<p>After the workshops, all participants presented their practices and initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-662 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.05.41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1428\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.05.41.png 1428w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.05.41-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.05.41-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-05-04-at-14.05.41-1024x564.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The evaluation of this Knowledge Exchange event was\u00a0very significant with three key outcomes:<br \/>\n1. Business benefiting from project experience and ideas shared by speakers<br \/>\n2. New curricula including open educational resources and tools shared by participants<br \/>\n3. Networks developed enabling new collaborative projects and partnerships<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As an example, the event enabled the cooperation between the OU-UK Rumpus with Policymakers &#8211; The Secretary of Education in Sao Paulo &#8211; Brasil Government leader of UNDIME-SP to develop together a case study\u00a0 about the open schooling &#8220;<em>protecting the largest urban forest in the world<\/em>&#8221; which is located in Brazil .\u00a0 This CONNECT event\u00a0 brought\u00a0 key findings to the attention of key participants and decision-makers, in education, academia, industry and policy. And it will be now expanded to the wider public sector and others in the next event of BETT Brazil in May 10th , which Alexandra Okada is a keynote with Marcia Bernardes the head of UNDIME, including Silvar Ribeiro the coordinator of Social Innovation Research in Bahia UNEB\u00a0 \u00a0who will be talking about <em>Environmental protection in the\u00a0 semi-arid\u00a0 region of Brazil<\/em> ,\u00a0 and Thais Castro leader of technology for inclusion in UFAM who will talk about\u00a0 citizen science initiative to understand issues of<em> Amazon &#8211; the largest tropical forest in the world.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Posters<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/e1BD65nAILTWiU?hostedIn=slideshare&amp;page=upload\" width=\"476\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SEE our Policy report<\/p>\n<p>POLICY REPORT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7a0a0732.flowpaper.com\/CONNECTpolicy\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/7a0a0732.flowpaper.com');\">https:\/\/7a0a0732.flowpaper.com\/CONNECTpolicy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/7a0a0732.flowpaper.com\/CONNECTpolicy\/#PreviewMode=Miniature\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>O Semin\u00e1rio Internacional sobre Open Schooling UK-BR foi organizado pelo projeto CONNECT time da The Open University financiado pela Comiss\u00e3o Europeia, apoiado pela BETT Brasil e grupo de Pesquisa Rumpus. Este evento foi realizado em Milton Keynes no dia 22 de mar\u00e7o de 2022. O semin\u00e1rio reuniu 30 especialistas na \u00e1rea para discutir educa\u00e7\u00e3o aberta, tecnologias emergentes, design participativo, bem como equidade, diversidade e inclus\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1rios exemplos foram compartilhados para aprimorar os ecossistemas de inova\u00e7\u00e3o com escolariza\u00e7\u00e3o aberta para enfrentar os desafios sociais do nosso mundo. A rede Open schooling CONNECT envolveu uma diversidade de organiza\u00e7\u00f5es interessadas em I&amp;I: investigadores e organiza\u00e7\u00f5es de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o, decisores pol\u00edticos a n\u00edvel nacional e regional, representantes de empresas e da ind\u00fastria, membros da educa\u00e7\u00e3o cient\u00edfica e organiza\u00e7\u00f5es da sociedade civil do Brasil. Entre muitas empresas, houve participantes da Lenovo, Samsung, EduInfo, Cogna, Fore Education, Bedu Tech; universidades: FATEC, UFSC, Jundia\u00ed, Mau\u00e1, e escolas: Louren\u00e7o Castanho, Escola de L\u00ednguas, Marista,&#8230; e formuladores de pol\u00edticas da UNDIME &#8211; uma grande Uni\u00e3o de Munic\u00edpios na Educa\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p>Durante este evento, foram discutidas v\u00e1rias quest\u00f5es relevantes: O que significa \u201cescolariza\u00e7\u00e3o aberta\u201d? Quais s\u00e3o os princ\u00edpios-chave da Equidade &#8211; Diversidade e Inclus\u00e3o para apoiar a educa\u00e7\u00e3o aberta para todos? Quais s\u00e3o as iniciativas que aproximam educa\u00e7\u00e3o, empresa e sociedade? Quais s\u00e3o os exemplos de design participativo que envolvem alunos, professores, fam\u00edlias e pesquisadores para produzir inova\u00e7\u00e3o para abordar os problemas da vida real dos alunos? Quais s\u00e3o as melhores pr\u00e1ticas de escolariza\u00e7\u00e3o aberta com tecnologias emergentes?<\/p>\n<p>O evento come\u00e7ou com um painel incluindo quatro palestrantes brasileiros da OU, seguido de uma discuss\u00e3o em grupos e apresenta\u00e7\u00f5es.<\/p>\n<p>Foi o primeiro evento em L\u00edngua Portuguesa da Open University UK parte do projeto CONNECT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Knowledge Exchange Seminar on Open Schooling UK-BR was organised by Dr. Okada , scientific coordinator of\u00a0 CONNECT and member of Rumpus Research group. CONNECT &#8211; inclusive open schooling with engaging future-oriented science is funded by the European Union and by two Brazilian Universities. This event was held in Milton Keynes on the 22nd &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/2022\/03\/28\/connect-international-seminar-on-open-schooling-uk-br\/\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CONNECT UK-Brazil Knowledge Exchange Seminar on Open Schooling with fun participatory approaches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,9,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-fun","category-news","category-research","category-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}