This document summarizes a workshop on opening educational practices in Scotland. The workshop explored how open educational practices can promote social justice and sustainability. It provided examples of how openness enabled universities and organizations to increase their impact. Participants discussed how openness could support shared values like sustainability in their own contexts. They then engaged in open discussion sessions to explore questions around these topics in more detail. The workshop aimed to help participants consider next steps for promoting open educational practices going forward.
MARGINALIZATION (Different learners in Marginalized Group
Learning for Sustainability and Open Educational Practice Workshop (3rd of March 2017)
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LfS and Open Education Practice
Workshop
Betsy King & Ronald Macintyre
@LfSScotland
@roughbounds
Cite as: King B, Macintyre R. (2017) “LfS and Open Education Practice Workshop”, The University of
Edinburgh, 3rd of March 2017, CC BY NC SA 4.0
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Welcome!
• Who are you? (Name / where you work)
• Your interest in Open Educational Practices
• What you would like to gain from this workshop..
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The purpose of the day
To explore overlapping values and what, how and
why openness might enable for social justice and
sustainability
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Structure of the Workshop
Open Education in Practice - exploring examples and
discussion on openness
Sustainable and Open Values – looking at the links between
Values
12.20pm LUNCH
Open Space – group discussions around emerging themes and
reporting
Next Steps
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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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OEP, some examples
What does openness enable.
The University of Nottingham wanted to embed sustainability across the curriculum
• Problem, it came up against academic silo’s,
• Solution it made the content free and open, and faculuties used this freedom to adapt
the content to their context,
They opened up to influence what happened within.
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OEP, some examples
What does openness enable.
Parkinson’s UK is a nationwide charity, part of its role is to provide training to health
professionals.
• Problem, demand for the services was outstripping their ability to supply it using their
face to face
• Solution, turn the face to face training programme into an open online one
They opened up so increase the scale and scope of what they did to ensure they
remained the “go to” place for support.
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OEP, some examples
What does openness enable.
Scottish Union Learn are support learners in the workplace through a network of Union
Learning Representatives.
• Problem, they felt stuck in a model of classroom tutor led approaches, resources to
support learning are constrained.
• Solution, build on union values of collective learning and use free open material to
support social models of learning
They used open and online to address educational access issues and those of digital
participation
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GTCS Professional Standards: Professional
Values
• Social Justice
• Integrity
• Trust and Respect
• Professional Commitment
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GTCS Professional Values: Social Justice
Demonstrating a commitment to engaging learners in real world
issues to enhance learning experiences and outcomes, and to
encourage learning our way to a better future
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GTCS Professional Values: Social Justice
Embracing locally and globally the educational and social
values of sustainability, equality and justice and
recognising the rights and responsibilities of future as
well as current generations.
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GTCS Professional Values: Social Justice
• Demonstrating, honesty, courage and wisdom by critically
examining personal and professional attitudes and beliefs,
challenging one’s own assumptions and professional practice
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GTCS Professional Values: Integrity
Demonstrating, honesty, courage and wisdom by critically
examining personal and professional attitudes and
beliefs, challenging one’s own assumptions and
professional practice
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The Standard for Career-Long Professional
Learning
• Understand the environmental, social and economic conditions of
learners to inform teaching and learning;
• Have a critical understanding of and engage with the ways in which
natural, social, cultural, political and economic systems, function and are
interconnected;
• Develop the knowledge, skills and practices needed to take decisions
which are compatible with a sustainable future in a just and equitable
world;
• Connect learners to their dependence on the natural world and develop
their sense of belonging to both the local and global community.
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GTCS Professional Values: Integrity
Demonstrating, honesty, courage and wisdom by critically
examining personal and professional attitudes and
beliefs, challenging one’s own assumptions and
professional practice
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Approaching the heart of the Matter
(Griffiths and Murray,2017)
• How should we humans live well in the world?
• How can we human beings live sustainably with each
other and with the more than human parts of the
planet?
• Do we mind enough? A pedagogy of minding?
• What is it to live a good life?
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Hannah Arendt
‘we educators have to decide we love the world enough to
assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from
that ruin which except for the coming of the new and young
would be inevitable’ (Arendt 1961)
‘How do we know what is good, where to find hope, love,
rejoicing, joy?’ ‘What I propose is very simple: it is nothing
more than to think what we are doing’ (Arendt 1958)
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Even small children act as if love, joy and fairness are all
dependent on each other. We think they are right.
(pace Kant, Bentham, Mill, Rand)
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Approaching the heart of the matter
(Griffiths and Murray 2017)
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‘In short, if education is part of the good life,
we educators should be thinking about what
we are doing to find hope, love, rejoicing and
joy.’
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‘If we are not teaching for Learning for Sustainability, we are by
definition teaching for irrelevance.’
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Shared Values – Group Discussion
In what ways might Openness best support
the values of Sustainability?
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Preparation for Open Space Discussions
What questions you would like to explore in detail?
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Open Space … 4 principles and a Law
Principles
• Whoever comes are the right people
• When it starts is the right time
• Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened
• When it’s over it’s over
Law of two feet
• Move to wherever you can learn or contribute most
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Open Space …
Please…
Record your discussions on flip chart paper
Prepare to report back to the whole group
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to Abi Cornwall (LfS Scotland), Rosa Murray
(University of Edinburgh) and all those that attended and
made it a grand day.“”