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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Open education and widening participation
Pete Cannell 07 December 2015
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Open Educational Resources
“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open
license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy,
use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture
notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.” (UNESCO definition)
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OER: the 5Rs• Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content;
• Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video);
• Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language);
• Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup);
• Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend).” (David Wiley, 5 March 2014)
Source: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221
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The Promise• The promise of Open Education is that
traditional boundaries and barriers to
engagement with higher education can be
broken down (OECD, 2007; D’Antoni, 2014)
• The current reality in Scotland and in
Europe (recent OECD report, Falconer
2013) is that Open Education in general
and OER in particular is having a relatively
limited impact on widening participation and
lifelong learning
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The Project
• Opening Educational
Practices in Scotland
is a three year project
led by the Open
University in Scotland
but involving all of the
higher education
sector.
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Project objectivesThe project encompasses a number of activities over a
three year period (2014-2017):
• Analysis of current open educational practices
• Events programme across Scotland to raise awareness of OEP
• Development of an online hub to encourage and share best practice in open education
• Development of a small number of high quality OERs of particular benefit to Scotland
• Badging of informal learning
• Learning design for widening participation
• Research and evaluation building strong evidence base
• Evaluation of various economic models of openness
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Origins• Strong focus and
incentive to work in
partnership to widen
participation in Scottish
Higher Education
• Availability of OER
resources (OpenLearn
…) and high level of
expertise within the
Open University
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OER developed in partnership
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Open Educational Practice
Cape Town Declaration - 2007
• The declaration stresses that developing the potential of open
education requires practices that enable educators to share
approaches and ideas and promote development in pedagogy.
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Extending how we think of OEP
• The evidence that OEPS is building on suggests that it may be
useful to think of practice as including:
• Learning design and pedagogy
• Opportunities for co-creation
• Social Context
• Collective and peer supported learning
• Networks
Project activities
•Discussion with partners and potential partners – approx 50•Workshops
oLearning Design aimed at developing practiceo‘Open Learning Champions’oA range of open practice topics
•Presentations at conferences and seminars•Advisory forums
•Developing exemplar OER and associated practice•Supporting development and piloting of badges in WP contexts•Developing hub for open educational practice•Embedded evaluation and research•Reports and papers
Emerging Themes• Partnership
• High levels of interest outside the formal education sector
• Extending learning design and practice to include the use of materials in social settings – importance of peer support
• Value of working with partners who are embedded in their own well established networks
• The opportunities that are created by working with partners where individuals play intermediary or facilitating roles with fellow workers, clients …
• Value of co-creation and collaborative design
• OER ladder – from use through to remixing
• Sharing and developing knowledge
• The online hub is being designed to support learning communities – not another repository
Contact Us: Email:
OEPScotland@open.ac.uk
Twitter: @OEPScotland
Blog: www.oepscotland.org
Community hub: www.oeps.ac.uk
http://www.slideshare.net/OEPScotland/open-education-and-widening-participation
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Barriers to use – case study
• Working with Scottish Union
Learning to develop Open
Learning Champions
• 18 unions
• Around 100 ULRs
• Building a community on
www.oeps.ac.uk
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What we’ve found
• Barriers familiar in the WP literature – socio-economic, attitudinal, confidence …
• But these overlap and interact with specific characteristics of the online environment
Scale and complexity of the offer – ‘looks like a university’
The idea that online means individualised
Negative experience (e.g. tick box, top down)
Where to start – lack of structure
Digital skills, digital literacy
Lack of good collective models
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