An ENOEL Toolkit: Open Education Benefits. Version 5

What is it?

Welcome to the latest version of the Open Education Benefits toolkit! It is a set of tools (slides, leaflets, and cards for social media) you are invited to use and adapt to advocate for Open Education. With this version, we also share playing cards to support brainstorming and workshop activities. 

These resources have been prepared by The European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL). The ENOEL toolkit as a whole aims to help raise awareness of the importance of Open Education. It points out the benefits of Open Education adoption for students, teachers, institutions, society and librarians.

In the latest version, we added the Benefits for Librarians and updated the Benefits for Students. We updated the References and added anecdotal evidence collected from our librarians about benefits that they have experienced but that have not yet been analysed in any research paper, to our knowledge. If you are aware of research that has dealt with the experiences in our librarians’ anecdotal evidence, please reach out to us.

In this version, you will find the most recent English Toolkit and translations into the following languages (in alphabetical order):

• Dutch

• German

• Greek

• Italian

• Norwegian

• Polish

• Russian

• Serbian

• Slovak

• Ukrainian

While we are working on the process of localising the most recent version of the Toolkit in the additional language versions, making the Toolkit relevant in many local contexts, you will still find the previous version in the following languages:

• Albanian 

• Catalan

• French

• Kazakh

• Latvian

• Macedonian 

• Montenegrin

• Spanish

• Turkish

All templates are under a CC BY licence, enabling you to use and adapt them to your specific needs. Depending on your circumstances, you may choose to use cards in your social campaigns, add one of the slides to your presentations, or even print out one or more leaflets and hang them on a wall of your local library. You can also adapt the gameplay and the playing cards to suit your contextual needs at best.

We invite you to pick and choose, adapt and reuse! Help us raise awareness about the benefits of Open Education!

How to use it?

Each set contains different types of tools:

1. OE Benefits - ENOEL slides 

2. OE Benefits - ENOEL leaflets 

3. OE Benefits - ENOEL cards for social media use

In addition, we developed a new tool, the OE Benefits - ENOEL Card Game, which includes multiple gameplay instructions. The files in this version are available in English.

The second slide in each deck provides a detailed description of how the files are organised and how they might be used. 

We’d love to hear how you have reused them. Please send us a message and let us know: oer@sparceurope.org