A brief overview of research journey into open educational practices so far. I am exploring how open educational practices (OEP) are evolving and being actualized in formal higher education. As an educational developer, I am interested in how to support faculty in moving to OEP, understanding the experience of faculty currently innovating with OEP, as well as the student experience of being engaged with OEP.

1. Evolving Open Educational
Practices in Higher Education
Michael Paskevicius
PhD Candidate – University of Victoria
March 2017
Global OER Graduate Network: Cape Town, South Africa

2. Research agenda (draft as of this morning)
I am exploring how open educational practices
(OEP) are evolving and being actualized in
formal higher education. As an educational
developer, I am interested in how to support
faculty in moving to OEP, understanding the
experience of faculty currently innovating
with OEP, as well as the student experience of
being engaged with OEP.

3. https://barbourians.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/the-island-of-research/

4. A three paper thesis: three islands to navigate!

5. Conceptualizing Open Educational
Practices Within the Model of Constructive Alignment

6. A working definition for OEP in the context of educational development
Teaching and learning practices where openness is enacted within all
aspects of instructional practice; including the design of learning
outcomes, teaching resources, activities, and assessment. OEP engage
both faculty and students with the use and creation of OER, draw attention to
the potential afforded by open licences, facilitate open peer-review, and
support student-directed projects.

7. Teaching &
Learning Activities
Learning Outcomes
Assessment &
Evaluation
Adapted from Biggs & Tang, 2011
Teaching & Learning
Resources

8. Teaching &
Learning Activities
Teaching & Learning
Resources
Learning Outcomes
Assessment &
Evaluation
Accessible, clear,
transparent, expansive,
and student-centred
learning outcomes
Accessible, adaptable,
shared, and collaborative
resources
Student as producer, peer-
reviewer, collaborator, and digitally
literate contributor to OEP
Exposed, collaborative, and
collectively improved teaching
and learning activities

9. Link

10. Link

11. Significant findings
Great potential exists throughout instructional practice for the integration of
OEP, evidence of the impact on teaching and learning are emerging -
more empirical research is needed
Situating OEP within the model of constructive alignment may enable faculty
to envision how OEP fits into their landscape of practice
Issues of leadership, infrastructure, and the development of literacies for
enacting OEP remain

12. How do faculty describe their experiences implementing open
educational practices through the lens of structuration theory?

13. Theoretical
constructs
The phenomenon associated with open education
remain under-theorized in the literature (Knox, 2013;
Veletsianos, 2015).
Common theoretical lenses include:
● communities of practice (Harris & Higgison, 2003;
Koohang & Harman, 2007; Tosato & Bodi, 2011)
● activity theory (Alevizou, 2012; Porter, 2013; Cox,
2016)
● motivation and self-efficacy theories (Van Acker et
al., 2014; Borthwick & Gallagher-Brett, 2014)
● learning through knowledge creation (Littlejohn &
Hood, 2016)

14. Adapted from : Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying
Technology in Organizations. Organization Science, 11(4), 404–428. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.11.4.404.14600

15. Design of this study
Openness as the enemy of knowability (Beetham, 2011)
Qualitative approaches best suited for understanding
perceptions and interpretations of OEP
Artefacts created through OEP may be valuable sources of
data

16. How do open educational practices
impact student engagement?

17. Link

18. OEP and Networked Learning

19. Design of this study
• Literature on student engagement with OEP is minimal
• Potential linkages between student engagement and involvement in OEP
• Openness inherent in OEP provides access to artefacts which may help us
further understand this phenomenon
• Yet to be made connections within the literature on OEP, including the
relationship with constructive alignment, student
engagement, and networked learning

20. Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
michael.paskevicus@viu.ca
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