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- 1. Open practice revisited #ILI2019 Lis Parcell Open as in Signs in Alleys by cogdogblog is licensed under CC BY 2.0
- 2. Open practices •Open source, open platforms, open repositories, open metadata •Open scholarship, open science, open data, open access journals, open access monographs •Open education, open pedagogy, open badges •Open educational resources (OER) •Open textbooks •Openly licensed content •Open online courses •Sharing and collaborating Photo by Miti on Unsplash
- 3. Libraries, open practice and OER #opening by nchenga is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
- 4. What is open education? What are OER? Open Education "is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.“ https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wi ki/What_is_OER%3F “Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” https://hewlett.org/strategy/open- educational-resources/
- 5. Open educational practices – why? Image source: Becoming an open educator by Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Project CC BY 4.0
- 6. Open practices and OER Beetham, H., Falconer, I., McGill, L. and Littlejohn, A. Open practices: briefing paper. JISC, 2012 https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/51668352/OpenPracticesBriefing
- 7. Example of OER – course materials
- 8. Example of OER – gallery images
- 9. Example of OER – library training package
- 10. Get some basic open license know-how Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco by tvol is licensed under CC BY 2.0
- 11. Know some places where you can find OER Image by ThomasLendt - CC BY-SA 4.0
- 13. Consider open textbooks Photo by Leyre Labarga on Unsplash
- 14. Use existing OER in teaching and support Image by Devanath from Pixabay
- 15. Create your own OER Image by bethL from Pixabay
- 16. Explore an open online course Insert footer1 6 Photo by Ridwan Meah on Unsplash
- 17. Join in an open practice event Photo by Michael Mandiberg licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0
- 18. Share and collaborate in your practice This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
- 19. Be social Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash #oer @oerconf #openedsig #ukoer @UKOpenTextbooks #oerlib
- 20. @lisparcell jisc.ac.uk https://wke.lt/w/s/8Dxyhk Lis Parcell Subject specialist – digital practice (library and learning resources services) https://www.jisc.ac.uk/staff/lis-parcell https://www.slideshare.net/LisParcell1 Open as in Sea Shell by cogdogblog is licensed under CC0 1.0
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- Abstract: Lis Parcell explores what it means to be an open practitioner, providing some pointers to sources of open educational resources (OERs) and looks at how librarians can help their communities get to grips with OERs for learning and teaching. Staying with the theme of openness, I want to shift the focus to look at some other forms of open practice. In particular I’m going to focus on open practice relating to teaching and learning, including Open Educational Resources. I’m not an OER expert. In a previous job I was lucky to have a lot of contact with various OER projects at a time when there was more money around in the UK to fund OER research programmes and repositories. Today it is a bit harder to keep track of new developments and new sources of materials. I have had to find ways to get to grips with OER and find sources of OER for other people. In my current role in Jisc, one of the things I do is help college librarians and learning technologists track down OER because they have little funding for commercially published resources. So I have refreshed my memory, discovered some useful new sources and I hope they will be of use if you are new to open practice in education, or if you just want a reminder of what there is. Open practice isn’t always easy. But I do believe if we are going to be digitally literate we need to keep trying to be open practitioners where we can, and where it improves our services and our professional practice. If you have some experience in this area I hope you’ll share your own tips using the conference hashtag. Quick question – what kinds of open practice have you come across, or taken part in?
- Here are some of the open practices we come across in the field of information and in education. Open practice in software and in scholarship are probably well known to many information professionals. I’m not going to talk in detail about open scholarly practice or open access as it’s a big field in its own right. Jisc works closely with the UK higher education and research sector in this area. I’ll focus more on the topics towards the bottom of the list. It’s unlikely any one person would be involved in all of these areas. Open practitioner could be someone who participates in some form of open practice and supports others to do so.
- Open practice and libraries seem to go very naturally together. The modern library generally likes to promote itself as a service or a building that is accessible and which encourages the exchange of information and knowledge. And in some areas librarians have been and continue to be very active – notably academic libraries facilitating the shift towards open access publishing, some libraries hosting Wikimedians in residence, and libraries are enabling their institutions to move forward with open research data. But adoption of OER by librarians in the UK – with some exceptions – has not been particularly strong. Librarians can find it hard to locate OER and make use of them, just as many teachers do. And if teachers are not adopting open practices it can be difficult for librarians to do so. “Robin DeRosa (2015) defines open pedagogy as instruction that: - Prioritizes community and collaboration instead of content - Connects the academy with the wider public - Is skeptical of end-points, final products, gatekeeping, and experts “Librarians can start by working toward instructional practices that embody these values. But it is naïve not to recognize that librarians face obstacles in doing so, particularly in having autonomy and power over what their instruction sessions will cover because of faculty members’ limited understanding of our work (Accardi, 2015; Wallis, 2015). Thus, if faculty on campus are not integrating open pedagogy into their classroom, it can be difficult for librarians to do so as well.“ http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/a-critical-take-on-oer-practices-interrogating-commercialization-colonialism-and-content/ There are many challenges. But I think that if want to be digitally literate as library and info professionals, it’s important to have some basic grasp of open practices, be able to make use of OER where they can benefit our services, and so we can guide students and teachers. This doesn’t have to mean creating your own resources. There are other ways to support open practice. I’ve got 10 tips on things you could try to be a more open practitioner - someone who participates in open practices and supports others to do so.
- The first step is to know what open practice means in education, and where OER fit into that. There is no single agreed definition of OEP or OER. I like these definitions from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: they are in plain English and inclusive. They mention digital technology but are not limited to online resources.
- Why do some educators feel that Open Practices and OER are necessary? This graphic from the Open Educational Practices in Scotland project shows some of the reasons for the development of a movement around open educational practices. Open pedagogy often emphasises connected learning – it is not just about content but about being able to make connections to develop new knowledge. It is not enough that OER are created. Their use needs to be enabled and supported and the resources need to be discoverable and usable.
- This graphic from a JISC briefing paper in 2012 shows in a bit more detail how OER might support open learning and teaching practice and some characteristics OER might have. But it’s important to note that not all these criteria will apply in every case – for example OER are not always easy to discover! Let’s look at a few examples of existing OER and OER-like resources.
- One example of OER is course materials – this example is from MIT. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm The range and amount of material will vary from course to course but typically you will find a syllabus, some instructional material e.g. recorded lectures, reading lists, some activities. Note the Educator Portal (‘for educators’).
- https://www.europeana.eu Europeana is one example of how many galleries and museums are making available selected image content which could be used in education. With such sites it is sometimes necessary to hunt around for the licensing information and the permissions, particularly if you want to include something on a digital platform. If in doubt, contact the site to check.
- https://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/smile/ SMILE is an information literacy training package developed at Glasgow Caledonian University.
- https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/get-permission/ Recommended elements when attributing OER: Title Author (link) Source (link) Licence (link)
- Link to Wakelet for more sources.
- https://open.ed.ac.uk/ Libguides can be useful. There are a lot of them especially from academic libraries in the US. But they are not always current as far as sources of OER are concerned. If anyone knows of any libguides that are particularly good and up to date – do tweet!
- There are some moves towards adoption of open textbooks in the UK, although it is rather slow. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/transitioning-textbooks-to-open-lessons-and-insights-26-sep-2019 http://ukopentextbooks.org/
- Wikipedia can be a legitimate educational tool. CILIP Information Literacy group has a page on OERs.
- Several good courses including those from The Open University. Wikimedians in residence – well worth going to one of their events if you have one near you.
- Open University courses Introduction to OER (6 hrs) https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/introduction-open-educational-resources-oer/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab Creating OER (15 hrs) https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/creating-open-educational-resources/content-section-0?active-tab=content-tab Open Educational Practices in Scotland materials https://ds106.us/
- ALT provides events in the UK. Annual conference. https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/open-education-sig http://www.openaccessweek.org/ https://www.openeducationweek.org/ http://go-gn.net/webinars/webinars-oct-dec-2019/ Image: Women contributors collaborate to edit Wikipedia in an Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon in New York City. Events like these help increase gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Photo by Michael Mandiberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0
- If creating resources and publishing, consider whether you can make resources available under an open licence. If using other people’s content, provide attribution and share alike where appropriate. If you only do one thing as a result of this session, make a resolution to share a little more of your practice, try and share material that you produce using an open licence, start a conversation in your organisation, collaborate with others to improve your practice and maybe challenge your assumptions.
- Social media play a vital role in the sharing of OER and in open pedagogy. Here are a couple of useful accounts or hashtags to follow, to keep up with current developments in the UK. In Wakelet I have added a few blogs you may like to follow e.g. Sheila Webber https://information-literacy.blogspot.com/search/label/OERs Lorna Campbell http://lornamcampbell.org/