I am very pleased and honoured to be contracted for the Master's degree in Leadership in Open Education at U Novo Gorici, Slovenia. https://ung.si/en/schools/school-of-engineering-and-management/programmes/2NVOI/

My main courses are: 

• Introduction to Open Education  
• Team project 

See the promotion video here 

The study programme has been prepared in cooperation with the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning at the Jožef Stefan Institute. The programme is designed based on the experience from our joint online mentoring programme Open Education for a Better Worldwith contributions of international experts from both the UNESCO and the Jožef Stefan Institute. The programme contributes to the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendations on Open Educational Resources by building the capacities needed to meet their valuable goals.

They offer individual consultations to prospective candidates, students and graduates to help them in the process of choosing their path of study and career. You are welcome to contact us any time before, during or after your studies. We also offer help in finding financial support for your study costs (scholarships, sponsors).

The main objective of the study programme is to educate postgraduates who will be able to manage projects, initiatives, communities and strategic development in the area of open education in a competent manner. They will be qualified to plan, implement and manage open education at all levels of formal education, and in non-formal education, academic and business environments. They will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and implement open education on a full scale of granularity, from learning outcomes, courses, study programmes, to institutional, national and transnational levels. Graduates will know how to improve educational processes by using modern information and communication technologies and successful didactic practices in a reasonable way. With the full understanding of connections between technological and pedagogical as well as business and social aspects, they will be able to professionally analyze, develop and manage the education systems at the national level or a wider one. This will enable them to conceive strategies and policies and competently provide management in the field of open education.

The syllabus has a distinct interdisciplinary character, connecting information technologies, business studies and educational sciences. The programme consists of obligatory subjects, compulsory elective subjects, general elective subjects, team project, individual project and master’s thesis. 

Nine obligatory subjects enable an acquisition of in-depth knowledge, necessary for understanding the contemporary working principles in the key segments of open education, namely in its (1) design, (2) implementation and (3) management; these are the core segments of the study programme and are consistently addressed in the two years of study. 

Students may choose their preferred key segment by selecting one of the three compulsory elective subjects, and may further supplement their professional profile with three additional elective subjects. The team project, the individual project and the master’s thesis are obligatory parts of the study programme. With an emphasis on solving challenging open education tasks, these obligatory parts require an interdisciplinary understanding of the field and add to the development of students’ general competencies. Subject-specific competences are naturally developed as well (a list of these competences is also provided to the student).

Knowledge is assessed through project work and results, public presentations, seminar papers, midterm examinations, and written and oral examinations. The student completes his or her studies by defending the master's thesis in front of a three-member committee.

prof. dr. Imre Cikajlo