Presentation focusing on Knowledge Exchange and Professional Development

1. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Opening Educational Practices –
an overview with a focus on
Knowledge Exchange and
Professional Development
Pete Cannell

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
About us
The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland is
a cross-sector project that 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.

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
OEPS
• Now in third year of 3-year
project
• Working with multiple
partners to identify and
share good practice.
• Working with partners to
develop exemplar OER
www.oepscotland.org

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
What do we mean by OER?
Our understanding of Open Educational
Resources is grounded in established notions
of openly licensed content. We have a specific
focus on freedoms afforded by openly
licensing content (allowing “The 5 Rs”: retain,
reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) and the
degree to which design, development and
distribution accounts for equity and
openness.

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
What do we mean by OEP?
Open Educational Practices are usually
understood as approaches to teaching and
facilitation using technology to support learning
in the context of high quality OER.
The OEPS project has found it helpful to extend
notions of Open Educational Practice beyond
Learning Design into the nature of the interface
between the provider and the world and the
social practices that mediate between providers,
partners and learners.

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
The promise and the challenge
• OER and OEP is heralded
as a way of breaking down
barriers and opening up
new opportunities for
lifelong learning
• However, the evidence is
that the impact of OER on
lifelong learning is limited
ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/JRC85471.pdf

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Use practices
Barriers, Jonathan Brodsky (CC BY 2.0)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonbro/138705
6661/
•Lessons from widening
participation
•Pedagogy first, technology
second
•Learning in context
•Learning as a social activity
•Curation
•Online is a ‘means of exchange’

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Exemplar courses
• Four live, nine in
production
• Produced in
partnership
• Responding to partner
needs and
motivations
Short, free, openly licensed
Strong demand for:
•Transitions – filling gaps
•Professional development
•Knowledge exchange
superfactice https://pixabay.com/en/laptop-
knowledge-information-1749345/ CC0

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2161
http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2187
Knowledge exchange –
in partnership with
SAMS (UHI)
Professional
development in
partnership with
Parkinson’s UK

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Online and openly licensed
• Online enables reach, analytics, interactivity –
possibilities of two way communication
• Openly licensed allows use and remixing of tried and
tested material, reputation enhancement, low cost
revision and contextualisation
• Possibility of combining economies of scale with
versioning for specific audiences

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
• Design and pedagogy
www.oeps.ac.uk good practice website
• Creation: – How to make an open online course
http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2221
• Platform?
OpenLearn Create www.open.edu/openlearncreate/

12. Contact Us: Email:
OEPScotland@gmail.com
Twitter: @OEPScotland
Blog: www.oepscotland.org
Good practice hub: www.oeps.ac.uk
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