2. The project
Cross-sector project led by
the Open University in
Scotland but also involving
the OU’s Open Media Unit
(OMU) and the Institute of
Educational Technology
(IET)
www.oepscotland.orgFollow us on @oepscotland
4. What we’ve been doing - engagement
With around 50 partners:
•Listening
•Advising
•Learning Design Workshops
•Working on projects to develop new OER
•Working on projects to develop effective practice
that uses, adapts or remixes new OER
Partners include:
Unions, Universities, Research Institutes, Third Sector
Organisations, Colleges, Quangos, Businesses
5. What we’ve been doing - research
We see the project as a multi-stranded action
research project:
Case studies
Reports
Peer reviewed papers
Latest activity – Scottish HEI survey
(closes 20 November) - http://bit.ly/OEPS_HEIs
7. Exemplar OER Courses in production
Parkinson’s UK – due end of 2015 (25 hour course
aimed at Care Assistants …) Badged – possibly also
for credit ( peer assessment)
End of Life Care (Glasgow Uni) – (first module early
2016) Suite of specialist modules – global reach –
global community – scholarship
Global Seaweed (SAMS) – (first module May 2016)
Suite of specialist modules – Scottish govt priority
+ global community
8. Exemplar OER – possible 2016
•Development of Caring Counts with Scottish Water (remixing)
•Phase two of Parkinson’s – short high-level specialist modules
for medical professionals [funded by donor]
•Five further End of Life modules
•Further SAMS modules
•Scots OER [funded by OUiS Knowledge Exchange money]
•101 OER created collaboratively on a sector basis
•Women in to STEM???
9. Projects on Open Learn Works
Improving tools for authoring to make it much more user friendly
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.