1. Staying open: sustaining critical open educational practice in
a time of walls and borders
Sheila MacNeill, Frances Bell, Kate Bowles, Josie Fraser, Vivien Rolfe
#OER17 #CRITOEP

2. Panel Schedule
Link to abstract
1.30 Introductions to people and session
1.35 Kate Bowles, Viv Rolfe, Sheila MacNeill, Josie Fraser, Frances Bell: provocations
2.00 Open questions/discussion
2.20 Small group discussion
2.35 Feedback from each group
2.45 Show Sheila’s picturing
2.50 Close

3. We wrote our abstract after talking
We talked again to plan this session and
Sheila sketched our ideas
We shared on Twitter then storified to trace
on #critoep
Open Desire Trails by Sheila MacNeill CC-BY-NC-2.0

4. Kate Bowles provocation
Image credit: Iron Ore by Flickr user Ammar Hasan, CC BY 2.0
(https://flic.kr/p/oPHsf5)

7. What is brand ‘open’ and
how do we sell it to our
institutions?
What can the 5Rs learn
from the 3Rs? ® #FCBA00

8. Sheila MacNeill provocation
The comfort and discomfort of
open practice within open and
closed digital spaces

9. A Door Half Closed - Frances Bell
Within an institution
And beyond the institution?

10. Josie Fraser provocation
•Violence against women and Girls (VAWG) is a form of structural violence which
reproduces and perpetuates structural inequality
•Intersects with other forms of discrimination
•Limits and regulates the lives of women and girls
“Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is already a problem of pandemic
proportion; research shows that one in three women will experience some form of
violence in her lifetime. The new problem of ‘cyber VAWG’ could significantly increase
this staggering number .” (UN, 2015)

11. Violence against women & girls online
•Estimated 73% of females worldwide experienced online abuse (UN 2015)
•Online VAGW limits speech, social participation, and digital inclusion.
•“Online crimes are not a ‘first world’ problem; they seamlessly follow the spread of the
Internet.” (UN, 2015)
Online VAWG reinforces and perpetuates systemic gender inequality, as forms of abuse
are enacted and extended into digital spaces, and as new variants of abusive behaviour
are developed in relation to the affordances of digital environments, applications, and
systems.

12. OER & VAWG - working in the open
•Educators, researchers, students & civilians talking about gendered issues in networked
environments
•Wikipedia editors & subjects
•Personal and political cost of the tidal wave of false equivalency arguments
•‘Deafening androcentrism’
Many kinds of online abuse and discrimination are now illegal, but laws and rights are
eroded when abuse is normalised and accepted. Silence on issues relating to
discrimination and hate supports the normalisation of abuse.

13. Questions/comments
Please discuss issues raised by the provocations

14. Discussion
How can Open Educational Practice translate into
effective, inclusive action? Or inhibit effective, inclusive
action?
Identify specific examples of such practices

15. Contact Details
Sheila MacNeill @sheilmcn http://howsheilaseesit.wordpress.com/
Frances Bell @francesbell http://francesbell.com
Kate Bowles @katemfd http://musicfordeckchairs.com
Josie Fraser @josiefraser http://www.josiefraser.com/
Vivien Rolfe @vivienrolfe http://vivrolfe.com/