Ronald Macintyre @oepsscotland @roughbounds

1. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Reflecting on Open Educational
Practices in Scotland
Ronald Macintyre
@oepsscotland
@roughbounds
Presenters name(s)

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Session Structure
Introduction to OEPS and our Approach
Exploring Content Partnerships, Public Value and Learning Centred OEP
Exploring Use Parternships, Structures and Support for OEP
Conclusion and Reflections

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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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A.N. Other About us
Open University in Scotland –political climate focus on equity and
participation [not just access], history of working in through partnership
to support equity
Open Media Unit, global OER platform, built on affordances of OU
production model, focussed resources and capabilities on producing
high quality free and open often based on existing OU content

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Linked faces & inbetween spaces of OEP

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Partnership, Co-Production & Parkinsons:
Why Open?

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Partnership, Co-Production and Parkinsons
Designing in, for through Partnership
• Starts with the Learner, use of data to profile
learner – front line care staff, possibly distanced
from education, unfamiliar with learning online
• Build a journey based on their needs, think
about where they are, their context, experience
• Builds on the resources and capabilities you
bring and/or want to develop – strategic and
operational alignment

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What we Learnt …
The M of MOOC can distract people from thinking
about Openness, it is and it is not about scale,
It is about scope, embedding openness meaning
thinking about what is enables for your organisation
and your learners.
These lessons are not for “one way”, how well does
production model work for external customers, what
does it mean to be public facing

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Open to Whom …Exploring OEP as
“Use” through partnership

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Open to Whom …Exploring OEP as
“Use” through partnership
Listen to Learners, 7 workshops, in
two round nearly 200 learners took
part
Making Mistakes, it is not about
sending out links – we sent one out
Mapping their own learning journey –
how they might support peers

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Open to Whom …Exploring OEP as
“Use” through partnership
“Peer support is important
Structure is vital, in the
workplace, in the design of
the materials
Digital skills a concern and a
motivation

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What we learnt …
“it is not written for us”
Structure and Support – they like
MOOCs, for them “the C” (course
structure is important)
Recognition is important, badges yes,
but “trusted sources” of content and
support vital for learner and employer

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Concluding Remarks
Applying learner focussed approaches to educational practices in the
open means operating in the interstices of OEP – between production
and use.
Means approaching HE indirectly, through learners experience & new
sites of knowledge production – OEP as open to …
We have shifted, early focus on EP of OEP, away from the R of OER,
partnership and “relevant knowledge” has brought us back to consider
how Open Educational Production …

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Concluding Remarks
Growing interest from organisations who seek to create public value in
free open and online – its driven by external pressure (funding) and
expectations (learners)
[some evidence] Organisations recognise and want to address questions
of inclusion, they can act as “trusted sources” supporting and structuring
learners to engage with free and open

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Questions

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Contact Us: Email:
OEPScotland@open.ac.uk
Social media:
@OEPScotland
@roughbounds
www.oepscotland.org

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Acknowledgements
The OEPS Team; The Parkinsons Team; The Scottish Union Learning Team; All
the learners
License and Citation
This work is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please cite this work
as: Macintyre R. (2016). Reflecting on Open Educational Practices in Scotland.
In Proceedings of Open Education Global 2016: Convergence Through
Collaboration. Retrieved from
http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2016/paper-id.