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The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project aims to increase awareness and use of open educational resources (OER) in Scotland. Led by the Open University in Scotland, it works with over 50 organizations across sectors. OER allow free access and reuse of educational materials through open licensing. While OER promise free, mass-scale education, their impact on non-traditional learners is currently limited. The project focuses on partnerships, curriculum development, and social learning to develop new OER practices that combine open education and adult learning to widen participation. Emerging themes include embedding OER in partnership networks, peer support, and online communities rather than repositories. Examples illustrate creating global communities and adapting OER for new
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- 1. Opening Educational Practicesin Scotland Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS): presentation for the E-learning Alliance 23 April 2015
- 2. The project Cross-sector projectin Scotland tasked to increase the awareness and use of OER. Led by OU in Scotland as part of its outcome agreement with the Scottish Funding Council. Currently working with around 50 organisations …
- 3. OER We are thinkingof free educational materials (and mainly courses) that are licensed to allow the 5Rs: reuse, revise, remix, redistribute and retain MOOCS?
- 4. The Promise andthe challenge of OER THE PROMISE • Free access to high quality education on a mass scale • Widening participation THE CHALLENGE • In the main open education is at present simply providing more options for those with experience of higher education – the impact on non-traditional learners or learners in non-formal settings is very limited.
- 5. Origins An extensive rangeof partnerships between the OU in Scotland and other organisations: third sector, unions, employers, colleges and schools. An increase in interest in OER and the development of some partnerships to co-produce new material and practices. Adults, transitions and widening participation.
- 6. Meeting the OERchallenge • Redraw the boundaries between informal and formal learning and between community/workplace learning and college/university learning • Combine best practice in adult and community education pedagogy with the affordances of open education to widen participation
- 7. Developing Practice Practice isabout design, structure and support But also about partnership, networks and social models of learning
- 8. Emerging Themes • Partnership •Curating resources • Working with partners who are embedded in their own well established networks • Working with partners where individuals play intermediary or facilitating roles with fellow workers, clients … • Embedding practice in learning networks • Extending learning design and practice to include the use of materials in social settings – importance of peer support • The online hub is being designed to support learning communities – not another repository
- 9. Development of newcontent and new practices Examples • Parkinsons UK – enabling Parkinsons education to be delivered at much greater scale • Glasgow University Wellcome funded programme on ‘end of life care’ – developing a global community of practice • Women into Science and Technology – working with EQUATE and the OU Science Faculty
- 10. Learning from thepractices and approaches associated with already existing OER Example: ULRs into Open Learning Champions Example: Rural Entrepreneurship – working with SMEs
- 11. Open Badges • Currently4 open badges created under the umbrella of OEPS and being used at scale • More in the pipeline • New Badged Online Access Courses
- 12. Developing a networkand sharing practice • Informal meetings and dialogue • Open education workshops • Learning design workshops to support partners to develop new practice • Advisory forum every 6 months • Blog/website www.oepscotland.org • Conferences and seminars
- 13. Contact Us: Email: OEPScotland@open.ac.uk Socialmedia: @OEPScotland www.oepscotland.org
Editor's Notes
- #3 Ronnie We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session. The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education. Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
- #4 Ronnie We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session. The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education. Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
- #5 Ronnie We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session. The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education. Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
- #6 Ronnie We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session. The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education. Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
- #7 Ronnie We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session. The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education. Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
- #8 Ronnie Open education practices encompass, as any education practice that stretches and tests the spaces between online and face to face education, it draws in a lot of different educational practices. Our focus is on the pratices around how one designs learning in for and through openness, but also (and we feel this is crucial) the educational practices that structure and support learning in the open, and it is ours sense at the moment these are best served through opening up the academy to new voices and through bringing learners in by bringing in those they to use andtrust, through partnerships with those that support those most distanced from education.
- #9 Pete
- #10 Pete Just some examples to illustrate some of the work we are doing Focus is on embedding within networks or organisations It is about the sustainability of use practices, not simply being open, the sort of build it and they will come attitude, but working with partners to explore what openness might do, what is might enable them to do that they would not otherwise have been able to do.
- #11 Pete
- #12 Pete and then Ronnie introduces discussion Our work so far indicates that OpenBadges might be a crucial enabling factor, though with caveats, like anything based on value and trust they will only be valued by learners if they have a currency that people can trust, and clearly there is a lot of work to do in this area. I suppose we would like to stop here, after all this is a forum, and draw on the experience in the room, In particular around the promise of badges, but aslo ask people to share their experiences of openness and partnership working.
- #13 Pete
- #14 Pete