This document discusses the author's personal journey through open educational practices (OEP) over the past few decades. It begins by exploring definitions of OEP, from a primary focus on open educational resources to broader conceptualizations inclusive of open content, tools, and learning processes. The author then outlines their experiences with OEP at the Open University, from early open education models to modern developments like MOOCs, open research, open access publishing, and open pedagogy. These experiences are analyzed through frameworks like a continuum of openness and a citation network mapping the areas of OEP. Finally, the author argues that OEP can act as an innovation driver, promote social justice, and provides a flexible toolkit to open education and learning

1. Open educational practice:
A personal journey through OEP
Professor Martin Weller
The Open University

2. Photo by Oscar Sutton on Unsplash
Contentious terms!

4. practices that involve students in active,
constructive engagement with content,
tools and services in the learning
process, and promote learners’ self-
management, creativity and working in
teams” (Geser, 2007a, p. 37).
the use of OER with the aim to
improve quality of educational
processes and innovate
educational environments”
(Conole & Ehlers, 2010, p. 3)
OER production, management, use and reuse
Open/public pedagogies
Open learning (including peer-to-peer learning and open accreditation)
Open scholarship (including open research, open data and open access publication)
Open sharing of teaching ideas
Use of open technologies (including social media and digital open tools)
Beetham et al. (2012)
Conceptualisations of open educational practices (OEP) vary widely, ranging from those centred primarily on
the creation and use of open educational resources (OER) to broader definitions of OEP, inclusive of but not
necessarily focused on OER. The latter, referred to in this paper as expansive definitions of OEP,
encompass open content but also allow for multiple entry points to, and avenues of, openness.
Cronin 2018)

5. Me, the OU & open
My life in open ed

6. Pre 1990s:
Open education = open universities

7. Photo by Jingyi Wang on Unsplash
With networks and digital,
new versions of open arose

8. Discrete learning objects
Online repository
Reversioned new course
Open models of course production

9. T171
Large scale online:
T171

10. Open Source VLE

11. https://visualthinkery.com/
Open Educational Resources: OpenLearn

12. Digital scholarship: blogging

13. MOOCS: FutureLearn, BOCs & experiments

14. Open Research Practice

15. Open Access Publishing: JIME & books
https://visualthinkery.com

16. Image by Giulia Forsythe, Public Domain https://flic.kr/p/eR9rSr
UK Open
textbooks

17. Open pedagogy: YXM130, H880, OERu

19. Ways of thinking about OEP: OOFAT

20. OOFAT visualisation

21. 0
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1.5
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2.5
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3.5
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4.5
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Content delivery - flexible
Content delivery - open
Support delivery - flexible
Support delivery - open
Content - personalisationContent production - open
Assessment - flexible
Recognition - flexible
Recognition - open
Score your institution

22. OEP as strategy
Photo by AP x 90 on Unsplash

23. Mapping OEP

24. Citation analysis network

25. 8 distinct
areas

26. OEP as glue
Photo https://flic.kr/p/5u1mkS

27. 1990s
Traditional
OU model
1999
Large scale
E-learning
2004
VLE
2006
Dig Schol
2006
OER
2009
MOOCs
2012
Open
Research
2008
Open
access
...
2017
Open textbooks
2018
Open
pedagogy
??
A (very rough) timeline

28. OEP as driver for innovation

29. “Open to people, places,
methods and ideas”

30. OEP as social justice
Photo by Alejandro Escamilla on Unsplash

32. OEP is a toolkit
https://visualthinkery.com

33. Thank you
https://www.slideshare.net/mweller