This workshop is aimed at groups of potential learners and at those who advise and support them. The workshop design was used successfully in workplaces and community settings and aims to get participants thinking differently about online learning and the options for peer support and collaborative study.
1. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Getting started with open learning –
a workshop template for use in
workplace and community settings
Cite as: Cannell P. (2016) “Getting started with Open Learning” Workshop Template”, CC BY 4.0
2. Learning Online
Have you studied a course
online before?
Have you used Google or
YouTube to learn a new skill
or solve a problem?
3. Aim of this short session
To share some ideas about options for studying free
online courses
To give some guidance on how to find suitable
courses
To advise on supportive ways of engaging with online
courses
4. Open Learn
This is the Open
University site where
you can find a large
number of free courses,
videos and audio
material. There are no
time restrictions on
when you start or finish
the courses on
OpenLearn.
5. Badged online courses on OpenLearn
Badged Online Courses are a new
feature on OpenLearn and they are
particularly useful as a stepping
stone into learning online or to
further study. Badged courses on
OpenLearn involve 24 hours of
study – courses available at the
moment include:
Succeed with Maths Part 1
Succeed with Maths part 2
Taking your first steps in higher
education
Succeed with learning
English: skills for learning
Succeed in the workplace
6. Future Learn
FutureLearn provides a
platform for Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs)
from a variety of leading
universities and from
organisations like the
British Council. MOOCs
typically have a start and
finish date and are
therefore only available for
study while they are ‘live’.
10. Finding courses
The OU in Scotland’s Open
Pathways materials help with this
process.
The short course ‘Supporting
Collective Learning in Workplace
and Community Settings’ gives a
lot more help and guidance
11. Supporting each other
All these courses can be accessed via a computer, a tablet or a
smart phone. But just because they are online it doesn’t mean
you have to be isolated as a learner. There are great advantages
in forming a study group with others in the workplace. This can
be as simple as meeting up on a regular basis to share
experience, swap ideas and explore what you’ve been learning.
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12. If you are an Open Learning Champion, a Union
Learning Representative, or in any way someone
who supports colleagues or clients to think about
learning opportunities, you may find it helpful to
study the short badged open course “Supporting
collective learning in workplace and community
settings’
http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/v
iew.php?id=2692
Notas do Editor
Ronnie
We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session.
The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education.
Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
Ronnie
We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session.
The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education.
Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
Ronnie
Open education practices encompass, as any education practice that stretches and tests the spaces between online and face to face education, it draws in a lot of different educational practices.
Our focus is on the pratices around how one designs learning in for and through openness, but also (and we feel this is crucial) the educational practices that structure and support learning in the open, and it is ours sense at the moment these are best served through opening up the academy to new voices and through bringing learners in by bringing in those they to use andtrust, through partnerships with those that support those most distanced from education.