Webinar for teaching staff of the University of Macerata on how to use open teaching approaches, 2 December 2020

1. How to integrate open
education in the classroom
Fabio Nascimbeni

2. ToC
1. Educators as the key to Open Education
2. The Open Educator: who, what, how
3. Open Educators competencies
4. Suggestions and ideas
5. To know more

3. 1. Educators as the key
to Open Education

4. Open Education
«A way of carrying out education, often using digital technologies.
Its aim is to widen access and participation to everyone by
removing barriers and making learning accessible, abundant, and
customisable for all.»
(European Commission)

5. Were are we?
The victory of Open Education (Weller 2014)
• Policy: international (UNESCO 2019) agreement on OE priority
• Institutions: open initiatives in more and more universities
• >500 institutions offering MOOCs
vs
The power of the Status Quo
• Frontal teaching is often still the norm
• OER are in an eternal “experimentation phase”
• The MOOCs hype is settling down

6. Why change is so slow? What is missing?

7. We need a peaceful army of Open Educators
(University) educators need Information, Inspiration, Capacity,
Support to work in the open.
https://it.pinterest.com/pin/545780048568142339/

8. 2. The Open Educator:
who, what, how

9. Who: an Open Educator definition
An Open Educator choses to use open approaches, when possible and
appropriate, with the aim to remove all unnecessary barriers to learning.
She works through an open online identity and relies on online social
networking to enrich and implement her work, understanding that collaboration
bears a responsibility towards the work of others.
Open design Open content
Open teaching Open assessment
4 components

10. What: Open Educator activities
Design Content Teaching Assessment
Individual
designer
New to OER Traditional
teacher
Traditional
evaluator
Collaborative
designer
OER user Engaging
teacher
Innovative
evaluator
Open
designer
OER
specialist
Open
teacher
Open
evaluator
OPENNESSCOLLABORATION

11. Cronin, 2017

13. How: Open Educator competencies

14. 3. Open educators
competences

15. Competence area 1:
OER

16. Use Open Licenses

17. Work with OER: the 5 R
open = free + permissions

18. Work with OER: repositories

19. MOOCs

20. Competence area 2:
Open Pedagogies

21. Open Educational Practices
Cronin, C., & MacLaren, I. (2018). Conceptualising OEP: A review of theoretical and
empirical literature in Open Educational Practices. Open Praxis, 10(2), 127-143.
Open scholarship
Networked participatory
scholarship
Open pedagogy
Critical digital pedagogy
(…)

22. What can I do through open teaching?
Promoting Public Knowledge
1. Assign only open access readings
2. Have students post their assignments publicly (on their own blogs, on social media..)
3. Get students to give each other feedback openly (having them actually write a comment on
their posts, using online annotations)
4. Ask students to do a public scholarship assignment (leaving a comment on a news story,
diting or creating a Wikipedia page)
Promote engagement and motivation
5. Have students lead seminars on topics of their choosing (they pick the readings, the
activities, and then guide the discussion)
6. Have students create course syllabus (from scratch or not)
7. Use contract grading and negotiated grading
8. Use open-ended assignments (students setting their own questions and assignment length,
and no specific rubrics)
Promote co-creation
9. Promote the use of the open web
10. Use social annotation
Adapted from Alperin: https://www.scholcommlab.ca/2020/01/10/keynote-opened-2019/

23. Co-design your syllabus with your
students

24. Content: Use open textbooks

25. Teaching: Transform your course into
a MOOC

26. Assessment: Assess students' work
by sharing it publicly

27. Practice 1: Use open textbooks as teaching resources: the WikitoLearn example
Practice 2: Use a MOOC in the classroom
Practice 3: Implement "Open Flipped Classroom" teaching
Practice 4: Integrate course content with an OER slides playlist
Practice 5: Transform your course into a MOOC: the AMMIL methodology
Practice 6: Create an OER-based module for teaching foreign languages
Practice 7: Switch from a commercial textbook to an open textbook
Practice 8: Transform your MOOC into an OER
Practice 9: Use open video tutorials to foster explorative learning
Practice 10. Co-produce OER through teachers' content clubs
Practice 11: Share innovative teaching practices through an online repository
Practice 12: Produce OER playlists with the help of Artificial Intelligence
Practice 13: Co-design your syllabus with your students
Practice 14: Use OER to support socialisation of perspective students
Practice 15: Use OER for personalised and inclusive pedagogy: the path²in approach
Practice 16: Edit Wikipedia in the Classroom
Practice 17: Make your course digital with the help of your students
Practice 18: Use Open Data as teaching resources: a case from social sciences
Practice 19: Assess students' work by sharing it publicly
Practice 20: Implement OER-based renewable assignments
Practice 21: Engage Students with Professional Communities of Practice
Practice 22: Collaboratively created online publications by students
Practice 23: Foster students collaboration through online dialogue
Practice 24: Use social media to build an open and collaborative learning environment.
24 real-life practices

28. 4. Suggestions and ideas
to become an Open
Educator

29. Step 1. Check your starting competences
Platform URL: http://rd.unir.net/pub/oef

30. Step 2. Take a course on Open Education
https://course.openmedproject.eu/

31. Step 3. Explore OER repositories
OER Metafinder, https://oermetafinder.gmu.edu/
OER Commons, www.oercommons.org
MERLOT, www.merlot.org
Connexions, www.cnx.org

32. Step 3b. Explore MOOCs platforms
Coursera, www.coursera.org
45M students, 150 partners, 3800 courses
edX, www.edx.org
24M students, 100 partners, 2600 courses
Udacity, www.udacity.com
12M students
FutureLearn www.futurelearn.com
10M stidents, 100 partners, 880 courses
Edraak (Jordan), www.edraak.org

33. Step 4. Get inspired by existing open educators
www.opengame-project.eu
www.oerworldmap.org

34. Step 5. Explore open tools

35. Step 6. Connect with Open Education practitioners
Lorna Campbell (http://lornamcampbell.org/)
Dave Cromier (http://davecormier.com/edblog/)
Cathrine Cronin (https://catherinecronin.net/)
Stephen Downes (https://www.downes.ca/)
Jim Groom (https://bavatuesdays.com/)
Alan Levine (https://cogdogblog.com/)
Audrey Watters (http://hackeducation.com/)
Martin Weller (http://blog.edtechie.net/)
David Wiley (https://opencontent.org/blog/)

36. 4. To know more

37. https://stateof.creativecommons.org

38. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure

39. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/practical-guidelines-open-education-academics-modernising-higher-
education-open-educational

40. www.23things.ed.ac.uk

42. https://oerworldmap.org/