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Towards Open Educational Practices: Possibilities and Challenges
Shironica P. Karunanayaka
The Open University of Sri Lanka
Keynote Presentation, ELDEC, 14-15 March 2016, Lahore, Pakistan
"The future is open" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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Value Principle:
“Education is a Common Good ”
Openness in Education
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Education is about SHARING…
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Opening up Education
through
Dimensions of
Open Access
Open Learning
Open Teaching
Open Technologies
Open Source Software
Open Text Books
Open Data
Open Access Journals
Open Scholarship
Open Courses
Open Badges
Open Educational Resources
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A continuum of ‘Open’ Practices has been evolving over time…
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MOOCS Open
Licensing OER Open
Universiti
es
WWW Open
Content
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OER enables extremely
efficient
&
affordable
sharing
of educational resources…
Freely
Openly
Equitably
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Enhanced Openness through OER
Empowers teachers and learners to become more creative and innovative
in their educational practices…
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Opening Up…
Access
OER
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Practices
OEP
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MOST OPEN
LEAST OPEN
Open Access vs. Open Practices
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Instructivist
approaches
Constructivist
approaches
MOST OPEN
LEAST OPEN
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Open Educational Practices (OEP) Support the (re)use and production of OER
through institutional policies,
Promote innovative pedagogical models, and
Respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning path…
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(OPAL, 2009; Ehlers, 2011)
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Challenge: Implementing OEP
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Implementing OEP in such a way to promote a culture of collaborative practices is very challenging.
This essentially requires a ‘change’ in practitioners’ mindsets towards a more open, participatory, creative and sharing culture.
Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Keynote Presentation, ELDEC, 14-15 March 2016, Lahore, Pakistan
Enacting
Carefully designed OER-based e-learning environments based on innovative pedagogical models would offer a viable solution to support transformational changes in thinking and practices among practitioners.
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“Change is a journey, not a blueprint” (Fullan, 1993)
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Promoting OEP through designing appropriate experiences
The Case of OUSL
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Effective, Efficient, Engaging Learning Experience Design – Three Initiatives…
Promoting ▫ Authentic
▫ Situated
▫ Learning-centric
▫ Task-oriented
▫ Peer-supported
▫ Creative
▫ Reflective OER-based eLearning environments
Integrating different forms of OER
in different ways.
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1. Engines for Education (2013-2014)
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• A framework for the design of effective, efficient and engaging learning experiences based on a situated learning pedagogy - Scenario- based Learning (SBL), with OER integration in the
learning design. (Naidu & Karunanayaka, 2015)
Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Keynote Presentation, ELDEC, 14-15 March 2016, Lahore, Pakistan
2. OER-based eLearning (2014-2015)
(Karunanayaka, Naidu, Rajendra, Ratnayaka, 2015)
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The ‘Engines of Education” framework integrated with the OPAL framework (2009) to design an OER-based e-Learning course, extending beyond mere access of OER to innovative OEP.
Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Keynote Presentation, ELDEC, 14-15 March 2016, Lahore, Pakistan
3. OEP through a DBR approach (2015-2016)
(Karunanayaka & Naidu, 2016)
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A design-based research framework (Reeves, 2006) through a carefully planned intervention strategies at different stages over time, used in real life settings of OER-integrated teaching, to promote OEP among teachers, while ascertaining its impact.
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Reflections
A systematic approach to the integration of OER in teaching and learning was required to enact a ‘change’ in the mindsets of practitioners to move beyond mere access of OER to OEP.
Different ways and levels of OER integration in the learning design, through a carefully orchestrated series of learning experiences based on real life situations supported practitioners to gradually move towards OEP.
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Concluding Thoughts…
Opening up educational practices requires transformational changes in organizations.
A ‘transformational change’ can happen through ‘transformative learning’, where sets of fixed assumptions and expectations would be transformed to make them more open, reflective, and emotionally able to change (Scheels, 2013).
Design of appropriate effective, efficient, and engaging experiences based on innovative pedagogical models offers a viable solution to enhance transformational changes in mindsets and practices among practitioners towards OEP.
Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Keynote Presentation, ELDEC, 14-15 March 2016, Lahore, Pakistan
References • Ehlers, U.-D. (2011). From open educational resources to open educational practices. eLearning Papers (23).
Retrieved from: https://oerknowledgecloud.org/sites/oerknowledgecloud.org/files/media25161.pdf
• Fullan, M.G. (1993). The Professional Teacher: Why Teachers Must Become Change Agents. Educational Leadership. 50(6) March 1993. Retrieved from: http://www.michaelfullan.ca/Articles_98-99/03_93.pdf
• Karunanayaka, S. P., Naidu, S. (2016). From mindsets to mindstorms: Promoting transformational change in OEP at OUSL. Poster presentation at OEPS Forum4, 9 March, 2016, Scotland
• Karunanayaka, S. P., Naidu, S., Rajendra, J., & Ratnayake, H. (2015). From OER to OEP: Shifting Practitioner Perspectives and Practices with Innovative Learning Experience Design. Open Praxis, 7(4), 339-350. doi:10.5944/openpraxis.7.4.252 Retrieved from: http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/252/0
• Karunanayaka, S.P. & Naidu, S. & (2014). (Eds). Integrating OER in Educational Practice : Practitioner Stories. The Open University of Sri Lanka. Retrieved from: http://www.ou.ac.lk/home/images/OUSL/publications/intergratingOERinEducationalPractice.pdf
• Naidu, S. & Karunanayaka, S. P. (2015). Impacts of OER: What difference does it make & how? Research paper presented at the International Conference on Distance Education (ICDE), 14-16 October, 2015, Sun City, South Africa, hosted by the University of South Africa (Unisa)
• OPAL (Open Educational Quality Initiative) Report. (2009). Retrieved from: http:/eu/eacea.ec.europa./llp/projects/public_parts/documents/ict/2009/mp_504893_ict_FR_opal.pdf
• Reeves, T.C. (2006). Design research from a technology perspective. In J. van den Akker, K. Gravemeijer, S. McKenney & N. Nieveen (Eds.), Educational design research (pp. 52-66). London: Routledge.
• Scheels, P. (2013). Processes of Transformational Change and Transformative Learning. Retrieved from: https://scheelelearning.com/2013/07/processes-of-transformational-change-and-transformative-learning/
• Wiley, D. (2014 March 15). Clarifying the 5th R [Web log post] Retrieved from: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3251
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Acknowledgements
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The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL)
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development Project (ROER4D)
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
Dr. Som Naidu, Monash University, Australia – Co-Lead Researcher
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