reflecting on open educational practices in scotland

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Reflecting on Open Educational Practices in ScotlandRonald Macintyre@oepsscotland@roughbounds

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Session StructureIntroduction to OEPS and our Approach

Exploring Content Partnerships, Public Value and Learning Centred OEP

Exploring Use Parternships, Structures and Support for OEP

Conclusion and Reflections


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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A.N. Other About usOpen University in Scotland –political climate focus on equity and participation [not just access], history of working in through partnership to support equity

Open Media Unit, global OER platform, built on affordances of OU production model, focussed resources and capabilities on producing high quality free and open often based on existing OU content

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Linked faces & inbetween spaces of OEP

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Partnership, Co-Production & Parkinsons: Why Open?

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Partnership, Co-Production and ParkinsonsDesigning in, for through Partnership

• Starts with the Learner, use of data to profile learner – 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

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

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What we Learnt … The M of MOOC can distract people from thinking about Openness, it is and it is not about scale,

It is about scope, embedding openness meaning thinking about what is enables for your organisation and your learners.

These lessons are not for “one way”, how well does production model work for external customers, what does it mean to be public facing

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Open to Whom …Exploring OEP as “Use” through partnership

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Listen to Learners, 7 workshops, in two round nearly 200 learners took partMaking Mistakes, it is not about sending out links – we sent one outMapping their own learning journey – how they might support peers

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“Peer support is important

Structure is vital, in the workplace, in the design of the materialsDigital skills a concern and a motivation

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What we learnt … “it is not written for us”

Structure and Support – they like MOOCs, for them “the C” (course structure is important)

Recognition is important, badges yes, but “trusted sources” of content and support vital for learner and employer

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Concluding RemarksApplying learner focussed approaches to educational practices in the open means operating in the interstices of OEP – between production and use.

Means approaching HE indirectly, through learners experience & new sites of knowledge production – OEP as open to …

We have shifted, early focus on EP of OEP, away from the R of OER, partnership and “relevant knowledge” has brought us back to consider how Open Educational Production …

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Concluding RemarksGrowing interest from organisations who seek to create public value in free open and online – its driven by external pressure (funding) and expectations (learners)

[some evidence] Organisations recognise and want to address questions of inclusion, they can act as “trusted sources” supporting and structuring learners to engage with free and open


Questions


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Acknowledgements

The OEPS Team; The Parkinsons Team; The Scottish Union Learning Team; All the learners

License and CitationThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please cite this work as: Macintyre R. (2016). Reflecting on Open Educational Practices in Scotland. In Proceedings of Open Education Global 2016: Convergence Through Collaboration. Retrieved from http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2016/paper-id.

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