Positioning and Navigation: Services for Open Educational Practices

To choose suited resources for personal competence development in the vast amount of open educational resources is a hard task for a learner. This contribution introduces positioning and navigation as services that support learners in finding suited learning activities and resources for learning. 1 Current Situation and Context Although the availability of open educational resources is increasing there is a lack between these resources and the educational use of the available material. The increase of open access does not imply the creative use of these resources for learning. Furthermore these distributed resources are not only used in traditional learning institutions but they are also used by distributed self-directed learners who use these resources in a more informal way. In the European Integrated Project TENCompetence we are currently researching ways to personalize distributed learning resources, units of learning and competence development programs in learning networks (1). Two services are responsible to offer individualized competence development programs in learning networks. The positioning service analyzes the prior learning of learners through a content analysis method while the navigation service recommends the next best learning activity for a student. In this contribution we introduce these services and discuss their potential as a bridge from distributed open educational resources to open educational practices.