An interactive workshop on open educational practice exploring the affordances of free open online at the 2016 Annual SHED Residential "Digitally Enhanced Educational Practice

1. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Developing open practice –
challenges and opportunities
Pete Cannell @petecannell
Ronald Macintyre @roughbounds
Open Educational Practices Scotland @oepscotland

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Session Structure
• Introduction to OEPS, OER, OEP
• Our Approach and Understanding of OEP
• Aspect of and Patterns in OER and OEP
• Group Discussion on OER/OEP:
• “where are you now”;
• “where do you want to be”;
• [and] “how to get there”.
• Closing Remarks

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
About us
The 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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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?
We think of Open Educational Practices as
those educational practices that are
concerned with and promote equity and
openness. Our understanding of ‘open’
builds on the freedoms associated with “the
5 Rs” of OER, promoting a broader sense of
open, emphasising social justice, and
developing practices that open up
opportunities for those distanced from
education.

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
OEP in Professional Development
Does OEP figure in your postgraduate certificate
of Higher Education?
Are their available opportunities to learn/explore
licencing issues
Are their opportunities in continuing professional
development in OEP
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Aspects of OER and OEP
Openness, and its
possibilities enabled
through technical
aspects, digitisation
low cost of sharing
and open licences
Increasing interest
in open in its
broadest, a shift
from a focus on the
affordances of the
“educational
resource” to
questions of
educational practice
Questions of open
are less concerned
about the “qualities
of the object”, as
technical aspects of
open become a
given.
Opening up
questions of what
openness enables,
what openness is
(equity/social
justice) and what
educational practice
in the open means

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Patterns in OER/OEP
Creating Courses
Clusters in applied disciplines, especially Health and Social Care
Strong interest from Third Sector,
Often looking outside undergraduate curriculum, support people at the
start or aimed at post grads
Viewing Open as “two way”, opening up to new voices
Curation and Use
Strong interest from Third Sector, exploring “ways through” tyranny of
abundance
Questions around “what is the glue”, social and situated models
Technical questions remain, in particular around reuse

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Making
MOOCs
OPEN
TEXTBOOKS
REUSING
LEARNING
OBJECTS
CREATING
OPEN
ONLINE
COURSES
SHARING
Where are you now?
IP/Open
Policies
REVISING
LEARNING
OBJECTS
Co-Design
of
Materials
Embedding
Free and
Open
Capacity
Building in
OER/OEP
“Hearts
and Minds”
OTHER?

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Thinking about open
Where would you like to be?
Some prompts
If you find yourself starting a sentence with “in reality of course …” check
yourself
You might want to consider where you would like to be as an individual
education practitioner and at an organisational level
What does this enable, what being open in this way do, what does it do
for you, for learners, for your organisation
Capture your vision(s), share the similarities and differences

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking about open
What are the barriers?
Some prompts
What are the blockages, are there many, few none
Are they individual, the organisational, political, economic,
How important are social and cultural factors, are they
practical, what about pedagogy
Capture the top 3 things that get in the way

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking about open
What changes would have to happen to
enable this?
Some prompts
Barriers slips into changes, but specifically think what the
about changes are
What kinds of changes are they, big sweeping changes,
by stealth, by increments
Capture and Share the top three things they would
look to change

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Concluding Remarks

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Contact Us:
Email: OEPScotland@gmail.com
Twitter: @OEPScotland
Blog: www.oepscotland.org
Good Practice Hub: www.oeps.ac.uk