Martijn Ouwehand, Robert Schuwer

1. MARTIJN OUWEHAND & ROBERT SCHUWER
Connecting OER to teachers via open
pedagogy
Cape Town, 8 March 2017

2. Agenda
Background
Content of the toolkit
Experiences
Future work
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4. Background: why this toolkit? (1)
•Context: Dutch SURF SIG Open Education
•Higher Education
-Primarily for Dutch HE
-Suited for other countries?
-Suited for other sectors (Primary and secondary education)?
•Broad view on adoption
-Not only developing and reusing OER and open online
courses
-But also integration in day-to-day practices

5. Background: why this toolkit? (2)
•Why open education?
-OER, (M)OOC, open tools,…
•Adoption by innovators and early adopters
•Adoption seem lacking by early majority of teachers
•Target group workshop: teachers

6. Restriction
© European Union 2016 - Inamorato dos Santos, A., Punie, Y., Castaño-Muñoz, J. (2016) Opening up Education: A Support Framework for Higher
Education Institutions. JRC Science for Policy Report, EUR 27938 EN; doi:10.2791/293408

7. Point of departure
Day-to-day
educational
practice

8. Content of the toolkit
•Two parts
-Basics of open
-Applying open education

9. Content of the toolkit (2)
•Basics of open: self-paced (4 hours)
•Applying open education:
-Bring your own case
-Apply theory on own case

10. Content toolkit (3)
•A script
•A course manual “Basics of open”
•Slides “Workshop Implementing open education”
•Two inspirational models
•All materials are available under CC-BY
-To organize the workshop in own institution
-In several adaptable formats
•Download: http://bit.ly/surfopentoolkitEN
•More info: https://www.surfspace.nl/sig/5-open-
education/130-tools/

11. Applying open education
•Especially:
-Create awareness on opportunities of openness
-Inspire (by providing good practices)
•Starting point: pedagogical teaching methods
-Connecting different gradations of openness to
pedagogy

12. Two approaches
•Connecting the 5R on what to achieve
-Full potential of openness not always necessary
•Use some form of an open pedagogy
-Adapted definition of (Hegarty, 2015)
Hegarty, B.(2015). Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational
Resources. Educational technology, July– August 2015, 3-13.

13. Key figure
Integral adaptation education (open
practice)
Reuse with adapted
learning materials (revise,
remix)
Reuse ‘as is’
(reuse)
Inspiration
(retain)

14. Open Pedagogy Hegarty
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Ed_Tech_Hegarty_2015_article_attributes_of_open_pedagog
y.pdf
# Feature Description
1 Participatory
Technologies
Learners are connected via social media and share
their ideas, knowledge and resources
2 People, Openness, Trust Develops self-confidence through working with
others in an open environment
3 Innovation and Creativity Encourages spontaneous innovation and creativity
4 Sharing Ideas and
Resources
Shares ideas freely for knowledge development
5 Connected Community Part of a community of professionals
6 Learner-Generated Facilitates contributions to OER by learners
7 Reflective Practice Uses reflective practices such as peer feedback
8 Peer Review Contributes to peer review

15. Experiences (1)
•A wide variety of cases
-Within institution probably more homogeneous
•Basic knowledge of course design was weak
-E.g. to start with formulating learning goals was not
common practice
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16. Experiences (2)
•Basics of open is satisfactory
-Self study
-Short test at the start of part 2
•Part 2 has a lot of information
-Probably better to spread over 2 sessions?
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17. Future work
•Improve toolkit based on feedback of users
-http://bit.ly/opentoolkitfeedbackEN
•Research on influence of toolkit on adoption of
openness
•Use the toolkit and provide feedback!!
-Download: http://bit.ly/surfopentoolkitEN

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•Martijn Ouwehand
-G.M.Ouwehand@tudelft.nl
•Robert Schuwer
-r.schuwer@fontys.nl