Learning from OEPS

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Learning from OEPS#BeOpen

Facilitating the promise of open education

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Learning from OEPS

#BeOpen

Ron Mader, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/25056426410

•Open practice, learning design, student focus and social context

•Working across boundaries

•Costs and models of open

•Supportive and adaptable policy framework

•Legacy

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Open practiceLearning design, student focus and social context

Participatory design helps avoid implicit assumptions about students context and course design

Consider context, barriers and

preconceptions – value prior

experience

Open to new/old models – value of

peer support (book group example)

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Working across boundariesHuge value in working across boundaries – particularly in work on transitions, knowledge exchange and professional development. Learning on both sides – challenges of competing priorities.

Developing trust is a worthwhile challenge.

Pressure from demand and developmentsoutside the academy e.g. SSSC OpenBadges.

Combining practice-based and academic knowledge to mutual advantage.

Mick Garratt, Field Boundaries, CC BY-SA 2.0 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2957424

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Costs and models of open• MOOCs or open courses – MOOC carries baggage with it

assumptions about costs and models

• OEPS exemplars – www.open.edu/openlearncreate/OEPS• Open licensing allows reuse, remixing – virtuous circle of

development

• Bringing together economies of scale with low cost contextualisation

• Top down or bottom up? - what enables the latter?

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Policy FrameworkSupportive and adaptable

To liberate the potential of open requires:

Support for developing new approaches to digital literacy

Continuing attention to overcoming barriers to participation

Recognition that open education is dynamic and developing

Recognition of the innovative examples of good practice that exist in Scotland

Open by default? Stop talking about online learning?

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Legacy resourcesCourses, case studies, reports, briefings, guidance, workshop plans and tools for creating open resources

OEPS Collectionwww.open.edu/openlearncreate/OEPS

OEPS Archivewww.oepscotland.org

Slidesharehttps://www.slideshare.net/OEPScotland