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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS): presentation for Abertay University
06 May 2015
The projectCross-sector project in Scotland tasked to increase the awareness and use of OER. Led by OU in Scotland as part of its outcome agreement with the Scottish Funding Council. Currently working with around 50 organisations …
OER
We are thinking of free educational materials (and mainly courses) that are licensed to allow the 5Rs:
reuse, revise, remix, redistribute and retain
MOOCS?
The Promise and the challenge of OER
THE PROMISE
• Free access to high quality education on a mass scale
• Widening participation
THE CHALLENGE
• In the main open education is at present simply providing more options for those with experience of higher education – the impact on non-traditional learners or learners in non-formal settings is very limited.
Origins
An extensive range of partnerships between the OU in Scotland and other organisations: third sector, unions, employers, colleges and schools. An increase in interest in OER and the development of some partnerships to co-produce new material and practices. Adults, transitions and widening participation.
Meeting the OER challenge
• Redraw the boundaries between informal and formal learning and between community/workplace learning and college/university learning • Combine best practice in adult and community
education pedagogy with the affordances of open education to widen participation
Developing PracticePractice is about design, structure and supportBut also about partnership, networks and social models of learning
Emerging Themes• Partnership• Curating resources• Working with partners who are embedded in their own well
established networks• Working with partners where individuals play intermediary
or facilitating roles with fellow workers, clients …• Embedding practice in learning networks• Extending learning design and practice to include the use
of materials in social settings – importance of peer support• The online hub is being designed to support learning
communities – not another repository
Development of new content and new practices
Examples• Parkinsons UK – enabling Parkinsons education to be delivered at
much greater scale
• Glasgow University Wellcome funded programme on ‘end of life care’ – developing a global community of practice
• Women into Science and Technology – working with EQUATE and the OU Science Faculty
Learning from the practices and approaches associated with already existing OER
Example: ULRs into Open Learning Champions
Example: Rural Entrepreneurship – working with SMEs
Open Badges • Currently 5 open badges created
under the umbrella of OEPS and being used at scale
• More in the pipeline
• New Badged Online Access Courses
Developing a network and sharing practice
• Informal meetings and dialogue
• Open education workshops
• Learning design workshops to support partners to develop new practice
• Advisory forum every 6 months
• Blog/website www.oepscotland.org • Conferences and seminars