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Open educational practices (OEP) in higher education: Practical and critical approaches
Catherine Cronin presented on open educational practices in higher education. She discussed how use of open practices like open educational resources and collaborative technologies is complex and personal for educators. While there are potential benefits like increased access and developing new literacies, there are also barriers like lack of skills, support, and incompatibility with existing institutional cultures. Cronin's research found educators who choose to use open practices balance privacy and openness, develop digital literacies, value social learning, and challenge traditional teaching roles. Overall, open practice adoption is continually negotiated based on the specific context and individual.
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- 1. Catherine Cronin #PRAXIS Projectwebinar Uruguay 28th May 2018 Image: CC BY subherwal Open Educational Practices in Higher Ed: Practical & Critical Approaches
- 2. Catherine Cronin open educator,open resercher CELT, National University of Ireland, Galway @catherinecronin catherinecronin.net
- 3. Le spectre dela rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division from the New York Public Library (public domain) To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future makes the present inhabitable. Rebecca Solnit (2004) Hope in the Dark “
- 4. networked educators networked students Physical Spaces Bounded Online Spaces Open Online Spaces Image: CC BY-SA2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on Networked Teacher image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros higher education
- 5. pen Image: CC0 byNadine Shaabana
- 6. open education goal philosophy values resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide - The Open Education Consortium
- 7. Use/reuse/creation of OERand collaborative, pedagogical practices employing social and participatory technologies for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge creation and sharing, and empowerment of learners. OEP: open educational practices
- 8. Open education isa tool for social change. Santos, A.I., Punie, Y., & Muñoz, J.C. (2016) Opening up Education: A Support Framework for Higher Education Institutions “
- 9. Openness is notthe opposite of closed-ness, nor is there simply a continuum between the two… An important question becomes not simply whether education is more or less open, but what forms of openness are worthwhile and for whom; openness alone is not an educational virtue. Richard Edwards (2015) Knowledge infrastructures and the inscrutability of openness in education Learning, Media and Technology 40(3) “ Adopting a critical approach
- 10. Openness and praxis: Asituated study of academic staff meaning-making & decision-making with respect to openness and use of open educational practices (OEP) in higher education PhD research study completed April 2018
- 11. I began witha question: In academic settings in which the use of OEP is not required, requested, expected, or specifically supported, why do some educators, and not others, choose to use OEP? (...and then what happens?) Image: CC0 BY Mark Solarski on Unsplash
- 12. Image: CC0 photoby Saksham Gangwar
- 13. Institutional, role-based identityDIGITAL IDENTITY Open, networked, ‘Resident’ identity Not using social media, or personal use only DIGITAL NETWORKING Using social media personally & professionally Using VLE & email only DIGITAL TOOLS FOR TEACHING Using VLE & email as well as open tools & social media Not intentionally using OER OER Intentionally using OER less open more open i) digital practices Using OEP
- 14. ii) categories relatedto OEP Strong attachment to privacy, focus on risks PRIVACY Balancing privacy & openness, valuing both Using ‘digital natives’ discourse DIGITAL LITERACIES Developing digital literacies (self & students) Valuing knowledge/information transfer PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING & LEARNING Valuing social learning Accepting traditional teaching role expectations CONCEPTION OF SELF AS TEACHER Challenging traditional teaching role expectations less open more open Dimensions shared by open educators (i.e. those using OEP)
- 15. Balancing privacy and openness Developing digitalliteracies Valuing social learning Challenging traditional teaching role expectations 4 dimensions shared by open educators
- 16. Balancing privacy &openness Image: CC BY 2.0 woodleywonderworks
- 17. Balancing privacy andopenness will I share openly? whom will I share with? (context collapse) who will I share as? (digital identity) will I share this? MACRO MESO MICRO NANO
- 18. Image: CC0 StijnSwinnen It has never been more risky to operate in the open. It has never been more vital to operate in the open. Martin Weller (2016)
- 19. OEP: Potential benefits •Increased access to education • Decreased cost (e.g. OER, open textbooks) • Developing digital, data, & network literacies • New forms of dialogue and global collaboration • Student agency & empowerment • Bridging formal & informal learning • Public outreach and engagement • Enhancing & expanding the scope of learning
- 20. OEP: Barriers &tensions • Lack of… o awareness o understanding (e.g. permissions, attribution) o skills (e.g. digital/information literacies) o support • Coordination across the institution • Incompatibility between existing institutional cultures & the philosophy of open education
- 21. Use of openeducational practices (OEP) is: Complex Personal Contextual Continually negotiated
- 22. Open Educational Practices(OEP) Using/reusing/ creating OER Collaborative, learner- centred practices employing social & participatory technologies for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge creation & sharing, and empowerment of learners OER open pedagogy + other forms of OEP emerging in situated studies of OER/OEP well-established link See: Beetham et al (2012), Cronin (2017), Czerniewicz et al. (2017), Nascimbeni & Burgos (2016)
- 23. We must rebuildinstitutions that value humans’ minds and lives and integrity and safety. Audrey Watters (2017) “ Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 carnagenyc
- 24. Thank You! Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin catherinecronin.net Lespectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division from the New York Public Library (public domain)