The document discusses opening educational practices in Scotland. It describes two case studies: [1] developing new open content and [2] support models for digital participation. The purpose is to share experiences designing, developing and using open online materials, and to explore what these practices could enable for others. It suggests imagining a future where education and information is free and open for all, and discusses what changes would need to occur for organizations and individuals to both use and provide open content.

1. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in
Open and Online Content in the Third
Sector
Ronald Macintyre & Claire Hewitt
@roughbounds
@ParkinsonsUK
@OEPScotland #ilovecharity
Cite as: Macintyre R., Hewitt C. (2017) “Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Open and Online
Content in the Third Sector”, The Gathering, 23rd
/24th
of February, Glasgow, CC BY NC SA 4.0

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Session(s) Structure
• Introduction to OEPS and OER and OEP
• Sharing our Experience:
• Case Study 1: Developing New Content
• Case Study 2: Support Models for Digital Participation
• Sharing your Experience: Worshop Exercise 3: Mapping the Learning
Journey
• Conclusions and Questions

3. 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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4. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
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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5. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
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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6. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Hands Up!
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Hands Up, CC0 Public Domain, Free for commercial use, no attribution required
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7. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Todays Purpose
Share our experiences of designing developing and using
free open online materials and allow you to explore what
they might enable in your context.
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
UK Parkinson’s Excellence
Network
• The history of Parkinson’s UK’s education delivery
• Working with OEPS
• Why work with the OU and what are the benefits?
• What are the challenges?

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Scottish Union Learn
SUL support learners in the workplace through a network of
learning organisers. What did openness enable?
•Its interest in free and open – developing new education
opportunities and support digital participation
•The approach – built on organisational values, self directed and
social support, collective learning,
•Still digital challenges, employers attitude, capacity to support
those that are supporting others in the workplace

10. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
What if …?

11. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Imagine a future where education and
information is free and open …
What would it mean for you as an organisation/Individual that
uses free open content
What would it mean for you as an organisation/individual
that provides free open content

12. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
If we want to see free and open what would
need to happen to make it happen, and what
will happen …
What does that mean for you as an organisation/Individual,
what are the changes & what are the implications,
What do you think it would enable for you and the clients or
the people you support

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Concluding Remarks …

14. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Questions