slides from guest lecture (11/2/21) for MSc BOE (blended and online education)

1. An introduction
to OEP (open
educational
practice)
Sheila MacNeill
Edinbu r g h Napier University , 11 Feb
2021

2. Overview of session
• Open, discursive
• Definitions
• Different elements of “open”
• Practice
• Challenges /opportunities

3. I say ‘open
educational
practice’ you
think?

4. Do you use any OER
(open educational
resources) in your
practice?
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5. Have you ever
shared any
aspects of your
practice openly?
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6. Layers of open in
education
Open access
Open research
Open data
Open standards /licenses
Open source
Open educational resources (OER)
Open pedagogy
Open educational practice (OEP)
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7. Open
education:
some key
dates
2001 – MIT Open Courseware
2002 - Budapest Open Access
Initiative, Creative Commons
2007 – Capetown Open Education
Declaration (published 2008)
2012 – Paris OER Declaration
(UNESCO)
2017 – Year of Open, Open
Education Consortium
2020 – UNESCO Call for Joint Action

8. Open = online?
2012 – year of
the MOOC
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9. Definitions
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10. Open
Educational
Resources
Teaching, learning and research
materials in any medium – digital
or otherwise – that reside in the
public domain or have been
released under an open license
that permits no-cost access, use,
adaptation and redistribution by
others with no or limited
restrictions (UNESCO)

11. Open
Educational
Resources
• Retain
• Revise
• Remix
• Reuse
• Redistribute
5 ”R’s” (Wiley)

12. Open
educational
practice
“use of OEP by educators is
complex, personal, contextual, and
continuously negotiated” (Cronin,
2017)

13. Open content and context = open
pedagogy?
https://blog.mahabali.me /whyopen/what-is-open-
pedagogy-yearofopen-hangout-april-24/
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14. Open
educational
practice
'open education is not limited to just
open educational resources. It also
draws upon open technologies that
facilitate collaborative, flexible
learning and the open sharing of
teaching practices that empower
educators to benefit from the best
ideas of their colleagues. It may also
grow to include new approaches to
assessment, accreditation and
collaborative learning'. (Cape Town
Open Education Declaration, 2008)

15. access
equity
social justice
Lambert, S. R. (2018). Changing our (Dis)Course: A Distinctive Social Justice Aligned
Definition of Open Education. Journal of Learning for Development , 5(3). Retrieved
from https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/290

16. Open education practice
• Production, management, use and reuse of open educational resources
• Developing and applying open /public pedagogies in teaching practice
• Open learning and gaining access to open learning opportunities
• Practising open scholarship, to encompass open access publication, open
science and open research
• Open sharing of teaching ideas and know-how
• Using open technologies (web-based platforms, applications and services) in
an educational context
Beetham, H., Falconer, I., McGill, L. and Littlejohn, A. Open practices: briefing paper. JISC,
2012 https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/51668352/OpenPracticesBriefing

17. How to be
an open
practitioner?
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18. It’s the little
things . . .
• Images
• network practice (#LTHEchat)
• Sharing some of your “stuff”
• Being pragmatic
• Agency
• Living with open and closed
• https://bccampus.ca /2021/02/1
0/open-gratitude/

19. My open practice –
constantly negotiated
Yuan, L., MacNeill, S., & Kraan, W. G. (2008).
Open Educational Resources-Opportunities
and challenges for higher education.
Advocacy
Being open about open education
OneHE/Equity Unbound Community Building
open resources
https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=dVzBSloo
Q3I&t=1325s
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20. A bit of meta open-ness
Refs / resources via Catherine Cronin,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jGsS5yjraW7rvDRQwPQz0
vneejbQN7CliPdmgznVZfs /edit

21. Contact info
sheilamacneill@me.com
https://howsheilaseesit.net/
@sheilmcn