designing for openness : lermooc case study

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Designing for Openness: LERMOOC Case Study… Ronald Macintyre @roughbounds@OEPScotland

Cite as: Macintyre R. (2017) “Designing for Openness: LERMOOC Case Study”, CC BY NC SA 4.0

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Session(s) StructureSomething about our Value Framework

Something about a practitioners approach to the Learner Experience

Some time for questions

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We Start with the value you want to create for the learner and/or your organisation rather than what you know (or think learners ought to know) and how you think we ought to communicate

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Partnership, Co-Production: Designing in, for through Partnership

• Starts with the Learner, use of data to profile learner – e.g front line care staff, possibly distanced from education, unfamiliar with learning online

• Build a journey based on their needs, think about where they are, their context, experience, where they want to go

• Builds on the resources and capabilities you bring and/or want to develop – strategic and operational alignment

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Linked Phases of Content Production

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

How do we know …

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Knowing the learner… Approaching … Partners with whom they have an existing relationship

For example, Parkinson’s UK understood the limits of what they knew about their learners, they wanted a partner who was open to exploring this with them [even better] The learners

Not listening to learners (Quality Assurance) or watered down co- production (consultations), but participatory, recognising them as experts in their own lives and making things together.

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Opening Educational Practices in ScotlandKnowing the learner…

Knowing … For the Learner,

Understanding what is valued and valuable in their context [used and useful] The nature of the transformation, the barriers and enablers

For you as a practitioner, There is no formulaeThe process, research and understanding of Learner Experience is from the start, Don’t just evaluate outcomes

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

For now we see through a glass, darkly …

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

AcknowledgementsPete Cannell (OEPS), Claire Hewitt (Parkinson’s UK), all the research participants.