Opening Educational Practices an overview

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Opening Educational Practices – an overview with a focus on Knowledge Exchange and Professional DevelopmentPete Cannell

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About us

The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland is a cross-sector project that 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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OEPS• Now in third year of 3-

year project• Working with multiple

partners to identify and share good practice.

• Working with partners to develop exemplar OER

www.oepscotland.org

http://www.oepscotland.org/

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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?Open Educational Practices are usually understood as approaches to teaching and facilitation using technology to support learning in the context of high quality OER.

The OEPS project has found it helpful to extend notions of Open Educational Practice beyond Learning Design into the nature of the interface between the provider and the world and the social practices that mediate between providers, partners and learners.

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The promise and the challenge• OER and OEP is heralded

as a way of breaking down barriers and opening up new opportunities for lifelong learning

• However, the evidence is that the impact of OER on lifelong learning is limited

ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/JRC85471.pdf

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Use practices

Barriers, Jonathan Brodsky (CC BY 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonbro/1387056661/

• Lessons from widening participation• Pedagogy first, technology

second• Learning in context• Learning as a social activity• Curation• Online is a ‘means of exchange’

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Exemplar courses• Four live, nine in

production• Produced in

partnership• Responding to

partner needs and motivations

Short, free, openly licensed

Strong demand for:• Transitions – filling gaps• Professional development• Knowledge exchange

superfactice https://pixabay.com/en/laptop-knowledge-information-1749345/ CC0

https://pixabay.com/en/laptop-knowledge-information-1749345/



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http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2161


Knowledge exchange – in partnership with SAMS (UHI)

Professional development in partnership with Parkinson’s UK

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Online and openly licensed• Online enables reach, analytics, interactivity –

possibilities of two way communication• Openly licensed allows use and remixing of tried

and tested material, reputation enhancement, low cost revision and contextualisation

• Possibility of combining economies of scale with versioning for specific audiences

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• Design and pedagogy www.oeps.ac.uk good practice website• Creation: – How to make an open online coursehttp://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=

2221• Platform?OpenLearn Create www.open.edu/openlearncreate/

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




http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/

Contact Us:Email:[email protected]

Twitter: @OEPScotlandBlog: www.oepscotland.orgGood practice hub: www.oeps.ac.uk

These slides available at

http://www.oepscotland.org/

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