developing open practice: challenges and opportunities

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Developing open practice – challenges and opportunities

Pete Cannell @petecannellRonald Macintyre @roughboundsOpen Educational Practices Scotland @oepscotland

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Session Structure• Introduction to OEPS, OER, OEP

• Our Approach and Understanding of OEP

• Aspect of and Patterns in OER and OEP

• Group Discussion on OER/OEP:• “where are you now”;• “where do you want to be”;• [and] “how to get there”.

• Closing Remarks

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About usThe Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project facilitates best practice in Scottish open education. We aim to enhance Scotland’s reputation and capacity for developing publicly available and licenced online materials, supported by high quality pedagogy and learning technology.

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What do we mean by OER?Our understanding of Open Educational Resources is grounded in established notions of openly licensed content. We have a specific focus on freedoms afforded by openly licensing content (allowing “The 5 Rs”: retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) and the degree to which design development and distribution accounts for equity and openness.

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What do we mean by OEP?We think of Open Educational Practices as those educational practices that are concerned with and promote equity and openness. Our understanding of ‘open’ builds on the freedoms associated with “the 5 Rs” of OER, promoting a broader sense of open, emphasising social justice, and developing practices that open up opportunities for those distanced from education.

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OEP in Professional DevelopmentDoes OEP figure in your postgraduate certificate of Higher Education?

Are their available opportunities to learn/explore licencing issues

Are their opportunities in continuing professional development in OEP

Hands Up, CC0 Public Domain, Free for commercial use, no attribution requiredhttps://pixabay.com/en/hands-hand-raised-hands-raised-220163/

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Aspects of OER and OEP

Openness, and its possibilities

enabled through technical aspects,

digitisation low cost of sharing

and open licences

Increasing interest in open in its broadest, a

shift from a focus on the

affordances of the “educational

resource” to questions of educational

practice

Questions of open are less

concerned about the “qualities of the object”, as

technical aspects of open

become a given.

Opening up questions of

what openness enables, what openness is

(equity/social justice) and what

educational practice in the open means

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Patterns in OER/OEPCreating Courses

Clusters in applied disciplines, especially Health and Social CareStrong interest from Third Sector, Often looking outside undergraduate curriculum, support people at the start or aimed at post gradsViewing Open as “two way”, opening up to new voices

Curation and UseStrong interest from Third Sector, exploring “ways through” tyranny of abundanceQuestions around “what is the glue”, social and situated modelsTechnical questions remain, in particular around reuse

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Making MOOCs

OPEN TEXTBOOKS

REUSING LEARNING OBJECTS

CREATING OPEN

ONLINE COURSES

SHARING

Where are you now?

IP/Open Policies

REVISING LEARNING OBJECTS

Co-Design of Materials

Embedding Free and

Open

Capacity Building

in OER/OEP

“Hearts and

Minds”

OTHER?

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Thinking about openWhere would you like to be?Some prompts If you find yourself starting a sentence with “in reality of course …” check yourselfYou might want to consider where you would like to be as an individual education practitioner and at an organisational levelWhat does this enable, what being open in this way do, what does it do for you, for learners, for your organisation

Capture your vision(s), share the similarities and differences

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Thinking about openWhat are the barriers?Some prompts What are the blockages, are there many, few noneAre they individual, the organisational, political, economic, How important are social and cultural factors, are they practical, what about pedagogy

Capture the top 3 things that get in the way

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Thinking about openWhat changes would have to happen to enable this?Some promptsBarriers slips into changes, but specifically think what the about changes are What kinds of changes are they, big sweeping changes, by stealth, by increments

Capture and Share the top three things they would look to change

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Concluding Remarks


Contact Us:Email: [email protected]: @OEPScotlandBlog: www.oepscotland.orgGood Practice Hub: www.oeps.ac.uk

http://www.oepscotland.org/

http://www.oeps.ac.uk/