OEPS presentation at OpenEd15 - Designing and using open pedagogies for the 5Rs: the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland experience
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Designing and using open pedagogies for the 5Rs: the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland experience OEPScotland presentation given by Anna Page at OpenEd15 in Vancouver, 18 November 2015
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OEPS presentation at OpenEd15 - Designing and using open pedagogies for the 5Rs: the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland experience
- 1. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Designing and using open pedagogies for the 5Rs: the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland experience Anna Page (OEPS), 18 November 2015 for OpenEd15
- 2. 2 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Project aims The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project aims to facilitate best practice in open education in Scotland. It will do this through • the development of a peer support network • an online hub and awareness raising activities Image source: drawn by Anna Page for the OEPScotland project CC-BY https://www.flickr.com/photos/127972386@N04/shares/KGVnD7
- 3. 3 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Project objectives The project encompasses a number of activities over a three year period (2014-2017): • Analysis of current open educational practices • Events programme across Scotland to raise awareness of OEP • Development of an online hub to encourage and share best practice in open education • Development of a small number of high quality OERs of particular benefit to Scotland • Badging of informal learning • Learning design for widening participation • Research and evaluation building a strong evidence base • Evaluation of various economic models of openness
- 4. 4 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Developing practices - themes Widening participation / transitions from informal to formal learning (OEP rather than OER) Widening participation / transitions from informal to formal learning (OEP rather than OER) Partnership working Partnership working Partners in well established networks Partners in well established networks Individuals who have facilitating roles – learning champions Individuals who have facilitating roles – learning champions Embedding open practice in learning networks Embedding open practice in learning networks Extending learning design and practice – use of materials in social setting Extending learning design and practice – use of materials in social setting Learn from existing OER practices/approaches, work with Small/Medium Enterprises Learn from existing OER practices/approaches, work with Small/Medium Enterprises
- 5. 5 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland OEPS is currently working with … • 12 Universities • 3 Colleges and 1 pan-College sector organisation • 6 Third sector organisations • 1 Football club • 3 Trade Union organisations • 13 National or Regional organisations • 2 Research institutes • 1 EU funded project
- 6. 6 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Developing a network and sharing practice • Informal meetings and dialogue • Open education workshops • Learning design workshops • Advisory forum every 6 months • Conferences and seminars • Project blog www.oepscotland.org • Open Educational Practices site www.oeps.ac.uk including community functionality • OER platform improvements http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/
- 7. 7 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Open Badges • Currently 5 open badges created under the umbrella of OEPS and being used at scale (all hosted in the OpenLearn Works platform) • OEPS is working with partners to create badged courses • Learners are more likely to trust a badge if it is issued by a credible organisation – Open University Badged Open Courses (OU BOCs) are proving very popular with learners who want to show what they have learned online
- 8. 8 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Development of new content and new practices Working in partnership for the 5Rs • External organisations new to open learning may have some material to share • They may already use traditional methods of teaching/training • Seek to get wider exposure and uptake of their material – OER is one way of doing this • Keen to harness collaborative working through supportive networks but not sure how to start • OEPS works with partners to explore what openness and the power of their existing networks might do which they might not have been able to do before • Aim to embed open practices within networks or organisations
- 9. 9 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Development of new content and new practices How ‘open’ – public scrutiny at course development or community review stages? How ‘open’ – public scrutiny at course development or community review stages? How ‘open’ – initial discussions before committing to share How ‘open’ – initial discussions before committing to share OEPS helps identify uncertainties, build expertise, revise partner content OEPS helps identify uncertainties, build expertise, revise partner content Develop course using appropriate open practices Develop course using appropriate open practices Partner more confident about developing next course in open Partner more confident about developing next course in openEvaluate feedback, review open practices Evaluate feedback, review open practices If positive experience & successful courseIf positive experience & successful course Evaluation exposes negative issues Evaluation exposes negative issues Partner informed about what does and doesn’t work Partner informed about what does and doesn’t work Overcoming barriers
- 10. 10 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Development of new content and new practices Issues and observations • Materials may exist online already but not in a format best suited for online learning • Learning Design discussions to work out the audience and reasons for creating an online version take time • A series of discussions might be needed for partners to understand about OER, open licenses, possible course structures and assessment options, including badging • A sample production schedule is a crucial tool in early meetings as it helps inform discussion, expectations, roles, responsibilities and future planning leading to an actual production schedule
- 11. 11 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Development of new content and new practices Issues and observations • Encouraging a partner to compile an asset register helps them re-evaluate the content they want to share • Involve partner in production • OEPS is documenting the production process to share openly for others to try out and revise for their context • Once the first partner created OERs are made live later this year, case studies will be written and shared on the OEPS hub
- 12. 12 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Case Study – a UK national health charity Face to face workshops for health care workers Face to face workshops for health care workers Workbooks and activities Workbooks and activities Video and Audio assets Video and Audio assets Shared Workbooks as open PDFs online Shared Workbooks as open PDFs online Scale and Reach limitedScale and Reach limited F2F Learner feedback positive F2F Learner feedback positive RetainRetain
- 13. 13 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Case Study – a UK national health charity Create open online course based on Workshop materials, including video & audio assets Create open online course based on Workshop materials, including video & audio assets Quiz 1Quiz 1 Quiz 2Quiz 2 Quiz 3Quiz 3 Quiz 4Quiz 4 Quiz 5Quiz 5 Self-reflection log Self-reflection log Course badgeCourse badge Later maybe formal accreditationLater maybe formal accreditation Some kind of informal accreditation Some kind of informal accreditation Reuse, Revise and RemixReuse, Revise and Remix
- 14. 14 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Case Study – a UK national health charity Learning Design workshops – identified audience, aims, tools for delivery Learning Design workshops – identified audience, aims, tools for delivery Partner compiled Asset list to keep track of assets and copyright permissions Partner compiled Asset list to keep track of assets and copyright permissions Video introductions to each section filmed Video introductions to each section filmed Quiz 1Quiz 1 Quiz 2Quiz 2 Quiz 3Quiz 3 Quiz 4Quiz 4 Quiz 5Quiz 5 Video re-filmed to with new re-use permissions Video re-filmed to with new re-use permissions Some images re-drawn for online animation Some images re-drawn for online animation Questions in workbooks re-written for online quizzes Questions in workbooks re-written for online quizzes Workbook content revised slightly Workbook content revised slightly Activities reviewed Activities reviewed Reuse, Revise and RemixReuse, Revise and Remix
- 15. 15 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Case Study – a UK national health charity Release new open course on an open platform Release new open course on an open platform Partner compiled Asset list to keep track of assets and copyright permissions Partner compiled Asset list to keep track of assets and copyright permissions Hold open online events focussing on the course themes Hold open online events focussing on the course themes Encourage learners to share and discuss via social media Encourage learners to share and discuss via social media RedistributeRedistribute RetainRetain Scale and Reach wideScale and Reach wide CC licence allowing others to reuse and remix for their context CC licence allowing others to reuse and remix for their context Promote the course to network of contacts Promote the course to network of contacts Invite and analyse feedback, share findings on OEPS hub Invite and analyse feedback, share findings on OEPS hub Learners show badge online Learners show badge online
- 16. 16 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland OEPS Hub Vision The OEPS hub provides an encouraging and engaging place to learn more about open educational practices. It enables users to: • UNDERSTAND about OER and Open Educational Practices • FIND useful OER • Provide tools to DO open – finding, remixing, building • Have a place to DELIVER their OER to the public
- 18. OEPS hub: get started page
- 19. OEPS hub: using OEP page
- 20. OEPS hub: create your own page
- 21. OEPS hub features: Communities
- 22. OEPS hub: OEPS Community
- 23. 23 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Good practice guidance Case studies from those who practice open education or use OER in an effective or innovative way (there is a route for people to offer case studies) Online courses and guidance: • How to do OEP (Creating OER and Good OEP) – coming soon • How to create OER on the platform (OpenLearn Works) – already on OLW • How to add badges to your OER on the platform (OpenLearn Works) – coming soon
- 24. 24 Opening Educational Practices in Scotland OpenLearn Works to OpenLearn Create Existing OER platform hosted by the OU Free public space for people to run their own open learning projects or share OER
- 25. OpenLearn Create – creating and re-versioning courses OER1 – course learner Draft course in OLC – experimental sharing space for OER creators to collaborateGuidance/good practice (OEPS site, OLC how to guide) becomes OER2 – copy of course re-versioned for other learners, purpose learner learner learner learner learner Experience of OER creation feedback to guidance Experience of OER re-versioning feedback to guidance Feedback and evaluation copied
- 26. OpenLearn Create – creating open courses Embedded or linked video Statement of Participation Textual contentimages Quizzes Open Badges Forums Interactive glossaries Blogs Polls Feedback and evaluation Choice of Creative Commons licences User stats and data dashboard for reports and analytics Remixing and re-versioning content OER search Peer assessment Exportable and accessible formats Multiple languages RSS/XML feeds User profile (creator and learner)
- 27. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Contact Us: Email: OEPScotland@gmail.com Social media: @OEPScotland www.oepscotland.org www.oeps.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
- The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project facilitates best practice in Scottish open education. We aim to enhance Scotland’s reputation and capacity for developing publicly available and licenced online materials, supported by high quality pedagogy and learning technology.
- PROMISE AND CHALLENGE Free access to high quality education on a mass scale Widening participation MEET THE CHALLENGE 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
- Widening participation and transitions from informal to formal education (develop OER practices that support participation and transition) – OEP rather than OER Partnership working with partners who- are already embedded in well established networks- where individuals play intermediary or facilitating roles with fellow workers or clients (e.g. helping ULRs become learning champions) Embedding open practice in learning networks Extending learning design and practice to include the use of materials in social settings Learning from the practices and approaches associated with existing OERs (e.g. Rural Entrepreneurship course – working with SMEs) Open education practices draws in a lot of different educational practices. OEPS is interested in practices about designing learning in, for and through openness as well as educational practices that support learning in the open. Open to beyond the academy, bring in learners who are distanced from mainstream education, via partnerships and networks that those potential learners already trust. design, structure and support, partnership, networks, social models of learning
- This partnership approach is important to OEPS – we’re using it both with HE and organisations outside the academy. The range of organisations who are interested in and starting to engage in open educational practices goes beyond the traditional formal learning routes of FE and HE.
- Some OEPS project activities
- Our work so far indicates that OpenBadges might be a crucial enabling factor. However like anything based on value and trust they will only be valued by learners if they have a currency that people can trust, and there is a lot of work to do in this area. We are working with some partners to test out how badging might enable their learners to progress from informal to formal learning.
- Might have published workbooks to accompany f2f workshops Cannot just assume “built it and they will come” – work with them to identify users, needs, behaviours and methods which would work best for their context
- Barriers to open working Partners may not want to expose the initial discussions about their plans to explore ‘open’ – they may want to understand the options and possible routes to sharing materials before committing to share assets openly – brave to do open How ‘open’ – public scrutiny at course development stage or later at community review stage? - Even after committing to share assets, partners may want to work only with OEPS team to develop the assets for online use rather than expose the development of their online courses or resources to public scrutiny as they are built, even if there are advantages with public scrutiny OEPS works with them to identify where uncertainties exist and where expertise is needed to complement and strengthen what the partner is proposing to share openly In the future, after developing one course and gaining confidence, partner might be more willing to develop course in the open from the start It is quite brave to openly build a course for many to critique as it evolves. For these reasons because we’re currently working with some partners whose open materials are in development, I’m not going to say who they are yet, however what the project is learning as we help them develop open courses I can share.
- For example a series of PDFs of workbooks which are used in a f2f workshop may not transfer into an guided online learning experience particularly well Sometimes a series of LD discussions are needed to familiarise the partner with open learning concepts and practices – this needs to be built into the timescale for the project with the partner A production schedule can help expose all the steps that might need to be taken depending on what the OER is likely to include
- Compiling the asset register reminds the partner to seek copyright information about the assets they wish to use and to confirm that they can share them openly. For example some video they might previously have used in f2f sessions might not have the relevant permission from participants for sharing on the open web so may need to be re-filmed or placed online behind a password. Taking care of the actual production on behalf of a partner can risk preventing them from learning how to do it themselves, so keeping the partner involved in every step and decision is importantIt is very tempting to take complete control as it might seem quicker but the whole purpose is to embed unfamiliar practices by learning together – empowering them to do it for themselves another time - Partner with subject expertise redrafts their existing material with OEPS team providing guidance on appropriate pedagogy- Ideal if the partner has someone to do the content upload otherwise OEPS arranges this activity We’re in the process of documenting the production processes we’ve been adopting so far with partners and noting when issues arise which might not have come about in an internal OU context. This will be shared online.
- Previously delivered face to face workshops for health care workers about the condition to improve understanding and care Workshop resources included a series of workbooks and activities about the condition, also video and audio assets The resources are pedagogically robust and received positive feedback from learners in the f2f workshops Charity shared the workbooks as open PDFs online Want more people (family of sufferers, other health professionals) to benefit from the resources but cannot deliver the workshops at scale
- Partner would like the option for those studying the open course online to be able to gain some kind of informal accreditation for working through the materials (the face to face course has a certificate) Learners can compile a reflection log as they work through the course A series of quizzes are designed to reinforce learning and lead towards gaining the course digital badge Later there are plans to seek formal accreditation for learners who complete the badge and submit a reflection log – so the quizzes have to be fair and robust to be officially recognised by accreditation bodies
- OEPS has guided the charity through the learning design workshop process to help them identify the audience for the online course and most appropriate tools for delivery OEPS has made use of the Open University’s long standing guided learning expertise to revise the materials for online learning Video footage has been re-shot, sometimes with the same subjects, as the original footage didn’t always carry the correct permissions for sharing openly online, introduction videos for each section have also been filmed Some images and tables have been re-designed for online animation to make them more engaging, though with accessibility issues kept in mind
- The OEPS hub helps users UNDERSTAND what OER and open educational practices are – it will provide an encouraging and engaging place to learn more about open educational practices. It helps users FIND useful OER. It will provide users with a simple set of tools to DO open – finding, remixing, building resources for their learners It will provide a place where users can DELIVER their OER services to the public.
- The OEPS hub home page is a portal to a number of things: a guidance section introducing users to OER and OEP concepts and good practice Links to open educational practice case studies The OER search Communities News about OEPS and open educational practices (blog & tweets) An events calendar for OEPS events (workshops, advisory forum, webinars) It will showcase OEP projects which may be hosted elsewhere
- The OEPS hub get started page signposts the various resources on the site including the OER aggregated search which will search OER repositories and collections from around the world (not just Scotland or the UK).
- The OEPS hub using OEP page
- The OEPS hub create your own page
- The site allows users to create or join communities in the OEPS hub to support each other using OER in practice in their particular context. They can: import existing or newly created Google forums into their OEPS Community space (in future they will also have the option to set up a Drupal forum hosted within the community space on the site), set up a twitter feed to relevant twitter account, pull in links to relevant Open Educational Resources showcase individual projects or resources in their community, Share experiences via a community blog, An events calendar where users can post up events which are of interest to the community.
- This is the OEPS community home page.
- We are currently compiling case studies of open educational practice in action and the OEPS hub encourages users to suggest case studies The course on how to do OEP is being created at the moment with the first part out for community review this week. The guidance course on how to create OER in OLW is already available on OpenLearn Works and has been used by a Moodle novice to publish her OER which is currently being used by a cohort of learners. How to add badges will come later – currently if you want your course to have badges OpenLearn Works managers can set it up for you. We want to make it possible for any course creator to set up their own badges and completion criteria on the platform.
- The OEPS hub links to OpenLearn Works, which is an existing OER building sandbox and repository site. OpenLearn Works has been built with contributors in mind. Users could find some existing OER and rework it on OLW. Or they can publish their own open content on OLW. The site is Moodle based for open course materials publishing and hosting.
- OpenLearn Works draws on the OU’s expertise to facilitate good online pedagogy and open educational practice. It allows the creation and delivery of educational content for free. OpenLearn Works was created as a sandpit area for experimenting and creating OER. We are developing further features to support learners as it becomes a live course hosting space. It is a place where the OU and others course creators can model their open educational practice to help learners using OER hosted on OLW to have a good learning experience. Guiding principles: Content available openly and for free (unless in a closed cohort) Content released under CC licence Site promotes and shares good open pedagogical practice No advertising on the site
- Tools and resources which OLC will have for users