Exploring Open Education
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The document discusses open practices in education. It describes a project team from the University of Warwick exploring open practices together. Openness means transparency, decentralization, and innovation. The project focuses on distributed leadership and leading by example through behaviors like standing up for others, listening, giving credit, sharing openly, and being polite. The project aims to be transparent in its activities through various communication channels and uses Creative Commons licensing. It emphasizes inviting participation through outreach, listening, and designing for participation. The goals are open discussion, participation, contributions, and building a community through transparency, gaining feedback, collaboration, and building trust. The intended outcomes are engagement, dissemination, and displaying a culture of sharing.
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Exploring Open Education
- 1. WIHEA #KNOWHOW Exploring open practices in education A remix based on Comfortable Chaos with thanks to Laura Hilliger @epilepticrabbit CC BY SA
- 2. Who are we? Project team are staff and students of the University of Warwick, co-researching together thanks to WIHEA.
- 3. What does “open” really mean? Transparency Decentralisation Innovation
- 4. The 10 dimensions of open education Image: The 10 dimensions of open education from Opening up education by EU science hub https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/opening-education-support- framework-higher-education-institutions
- 6. What distributed leadership looks like
- 7. Leading by Example: Behaviours that spur cultural shifts ➔ Standing up for others ➔ Listening ➔ Giving credit ➔ Sharing openly ➔ Being polite, kind and human ➔ Admitting mistakes ➔ Acting with integrity ➔ all those behaviours you learned when you were little and then forgot because the world got “complicated”.
- 8. We are all responsible.
- 10. Transparency: open sharing of our activities ● On twitter #knowhow #wihea ● On G+ #knowhow community ● On WIHEA news pages ● On our blog ● In all our interactions with colleagues
- 11. Creative Commons licences for sharing:
- 13. Inviting participation ➔ Individual outreach. It’s so easy to say please and thank you, ask how people are. ➔ Listening. Amazing what you hear if you learn to listen well.
- 14. PRINCIPLES ● Open discussion ● Participation ● Contributions ● Community PRACTICES ● Transparency with internal colleagues and other / external stakeholders ● Gain / Encourage feedback and adapt iterative changes ● Collaborate to build trust and respect OUTCOMES ● Engagement and dissemination ● A culture of sharing is put on display How we will work together:
- 15. TRANSPARENT INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY-CENTRIC Explain what problems you're trying to solve, the requirements and constraints involved, the process you will follow, how people can contribute. Engage others for feedback and collaborate throughout the decision-making process. Seek out diverse perspectives, including potential detractors. What is an open decision? Engage your Warwick network for feedback and bring this into the project. Seek out diverse perspectives, including potential detractors.
Editor's Notes
- “Open source”, open data, open education, open government, open food...“Open” isn’t just a fun buzzword, it started as a technological revolution and has evolved into a cultural movement. There are three main tenets of open. Transparency: the culture of Open is one that is transparent about processes, creations and authors. We make media and write posts about our work. We ask questions and allow anyone to feedback on them through commenting and social media. We change things based on what our peers say, and we explain our decisions openly, so that everyone can see not only what we've done, but how and why. Decentralization: The Open Web is made up of thousands of independent servers and webpages. The networked computers that make up the Internet are not owned by any single entity. Additionally, webpages are created and maintained by millions of people. Decentralization in the social and cultural space is inherent in anything “open”. Nothing is under a single authority. The themes, topics and materials a project addresses and creates aren’t created in a vacuum. They are created collaboratively. Peer to peer feedback and collective work runs the show. Hackability and Innovation: Transparency and decentralization allow for hackability and innovation – Good ideas can come from anywhere. Open is a structure that makes remix and redistribution easy, the culture that lives by these tenets takes pride in extending, changing and reforming each other's work. Because we can see how things are built, we can change them and apply new meaning and context atop someone else's ideas. We start to have a conversation through production, and that is something that is supported by and encouraged through “open”
- With the invention of the web, we’re much quicker to learn histories and contexts, relationships and influences that we didn’t know about before. Our ability to connect, allows us to talk about social norms and push back at common public perceptions. This is beginning to bleed into the real world in fascinating ways. We’ve been taught a certain degree of distrust, but much of the open community is adopting views around the way we interact with each other. There are communities who are putting trust at the center of how they operate. Views like “Everyone’s voice matters” or “There are no stupid questions”. Simple, humanistic points of view that are directly related to how we as human beings participate in the world and govern our lives. In business, this is changing entire power structures and dynamics.
- The WIHEA #knowhow project - participants need an open mindset.
- Ok, now that we have the behaviors bit out of the way, let’s talk about it more practically. Putting everyone on the same level and giving everyone agency and promoting open collaboration is a terrifying prospect, especially in business. It’s a pretty unnatural feeling. And it’s a pretty impossible feeling to feel, all the time, that we are worthy of having voice. We are groomed to understand hierarchies, authorities and seniorities. An agile management structure allows the person most capable of a particular job to manage that bit of the project in a way that makes sense to them. This is critical because we don’t all think the same way. Let’s look at Planet 4 through this lens, yeah?
- PMs need to enable. You’re in a position to lead by example, which is why it’s critical that you learn how to support open, emergent leadership. This is mostly about opening the door for people. Help people see what it means to have agency. We're successful if we take initiative. It doesn't matter if we fail, it's about believing that we have agency.
- We can and should give people the agency to take control. We should encourage people to share their perspectives. We can encourage these things on an individual or on a large scale, it's all about attitude. It’s so easy to give agency – you simply say “What do you think” or send a two sentence email that offers a human connection. It’s so simple, but it means something. Humans are built for connection. Inviting people to participate with you, personally, with the work generally, helps lay the ground work for a participatory project and a better world. We all have to breathe empathy - open is scary, people are shy, don’t like the limelight, are afraid to share too early, are worried about publicly taking responsibility.
- How does this work? Practically?
- What do you share? News on things you have found out Tips for finding teaching/learning resources Curations, visualisations, tutorials Ideas, questions
- Using openly licensed content, why this is important to innovation
- So people who believe in open strive to design projects to be participatory and collaborative by creating structures where roles are shifted.
- What do you share? News on things you have found out Tips for finding teaching/learning resources Curations, visualisations, tutorials Ideas, questions