An ENOEL Toolkit: Open Education Benefits. Version 4

What is it?

Welcome to the fourth version of the Open Education Benefits toolkit! It is a set of tools (slides, leaflets, cards for social media and playing cards to support brainstorming and workshop activities) prepared by The European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL). The toolkit 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 new English version, we added the Benefits of Open Education 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.

While we are working on the process of localising the most recent version of the Toolkit in multiple language versions, making the Toolkit relevant in many local contexts, you will still find the previous version in the following 17 languages:

• Albanian 

• Catalan

• Dutch

• French

• German

• Greek

• Italian

• Kazakh

• Latvian

• Macedonian 

• Montenegrin

• Polish

• Russian

• Serbian

• Spanish

• Turkish

• Ukrainian

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. 

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

How to use it?

The 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

Look at the second slide in each deck for a detailed description of how the files are organised and how they might be used. In slide 3, you will find suggestions on some key parts you might want to adapt. 

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