Creating openly licensed courses for use in workplace and community settings

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Creating openly licensed courses for use in workplace and community settings

Pete Cannell and Ronald Macintyre

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

About us

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 final six months

of 3-year project• Working with >60

partners to identify and share good practice.

• Working with partners to develop exemplar OER

www.oepscotland.org

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

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 to the include social practices that mediate between providers, partners and learners.

We have explored the value of co-design with partners and learners.

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Approach• Multi-stranded action

research project • Each partner strand

involved the typical action research cycle of planning, acting, observing and reflecting

• Identifying good practice and share new understanding across the strands of the project

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Use practice and beyondLadder of OER engagement (Alison Littlejohn)

• Initially partners from the informal learning sector are interested in how to use open and on barriers to use

• Shifts to interest in creating new courses• Driven by

FreeDecline in other areas of supportInterest in digital participation

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Exemplar courses• Five live, eight 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

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Co-design• Team approach – organisation from informal

sector + university• Initial ‘Learning Design Workshop’• Centred on student – thinking about what the

students need, what they bring with them, what the study context is – surfacing assumptions.

• Draws on ideas of participatory design – looks for ways of making learning social

• Parallels with older non-digital models

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

Professional development in partnership with Parkinson’s UK

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

OpenLearn Create www.open.edu/openlearncreate/

Contact Us:Email:OEPScotland@gmail.com

Twitter: @OEPScotlandBlog: www.oepscotland.org

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