Opening Educational Practices in ScotlandDesigning and using open

pedagogies for the 5Rs: the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland experienceAnna Page (OEPS), 18 November 2015 for OpenEd15

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Project aimsThe Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project aims to facilitate best practice in open education in Scotland. It will do this through

• the development of a peer support network

• an online hub and awareness raising activities

Image source: drawn by Anna Page for the OEPScotland project CC-BY https://www.flickr.com/photos/127972386@N04/shares/KGVnD7

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Project objectivesThe project encompasses a number of activities over a three year period (2014-2017):• Analysis of current open educational practices• Events programme across Scotland to raise awareness of OEP• Development of an online hub to encourage and share best

practice in open education• Development of a small number of high quality OERs of

particular benefit to Scotland• Badging of informal learning• Learning design for widening participation• Research and evaluation building a strong evidence base• Evaluation of various economic models of openness

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Developing practices - themes Widening participation /

transitions from informal to formal learning

(OEP rather than OER)

Partnership working

Partners in well established networks

Individuals who have facilitating

roles – learning champions

Embedding open practice in learning

networks

Extending learning design and practice –

use of materials in social setting

Learn from existing OER practices/approaches,

work with Small/Medium Enterprises

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OEPS is currently working with …• 12 Universities• 3 Colleges and 1 pan-College sector organisation• 6 Third sector organisations• 1 Football club• 3 Trade Union organisations• 13 National or Regional organisations• 2 Research institutes• 1 EU funded project

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Developing a network and sharing practice• Informal meetings and dialogue• Open education workshops• Learning design workshops• Advisory forum every 6 months• Conferences and seminars• Project blog www.oepscotland.org • Open Educational Practices site

www.oeps.ac.uk including community functionality

• OER platform improvements http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/

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Open Badges• Currently 5 open badges created

under the umbrella of OEPS and being used at scale (all hosted in the OpenLearn Works platform)

• OEPS is working with partners to create badged courses

• Learners are more likely to trust a badge if it is issued by a credible organisation – Open University Badged Open Courses (OU BOCs) are proving very popular with learners who want to show what they have learned online

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Development of new content and new practices

Working in partnership for the 5Rs• External organisations new to open learning may have

some material to share • They may already use traditional methods of

teaching/training• Seek to get wider exposure and uptake of their material

– OER is one way of doing this• Keen to harness collaborative working through

supportive networks but not sure how to start• OEPS works with partners to explore what openness and

the power of their existing networks might do which they might not have been able to do before

• Aim to embed open practices within networks or organisations

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Development of new content and new practices

How ‘open’ – public scrutiny at course development or

community review stages?

How ‘open’ – initial discussions before

committing to share

OEPS helps identify uncertainties, build

expertise, revise partner content

Develop course using appropriate

open practices

Partner more confident about developing next course in openEvaluate

feedback, review open

practices

If positive experience

& successful course

Evaluation exposes negative issues

Partner informed about what does and doesn’t work

Overcoming barriers

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Development of new content and new practices

Issues and observations• Materials may exist online already but not in a format

best suited for online learning• Learning Design discussions to work out the audience

and reasons for creating an online version take time• A series of discussions might be needed for partners to

understand about OER, open licenses, possible course structures and assessment options, including badging

• A sample production schedule is a crucial tool in early meetings as it helps inform discussion, expectations, roles, responsibilities and future planning leading to an actual production schedule

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Development of new content and new practices

Issues and observations• Encouraging a partner to compile an asset register

helps themre-evaluate the content they want to share

• Involve partner in production• OEPS is documenting the production process to share

openly for others to try out and revise for their context• Once the first partner created OERs are made live later

this year, case studies will be written and shared on the OEPS hub

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Case Study – a UK national health charity

Face to face workshops for health care workers

Workbooks and activities

Video and Audio assets Shared Workbooks

as open PDFs online

Scale and Reach limited

F2F Learner feedback positive

Retain

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Case Study – a UK national health charity

Create open online course based on Workshop materials, including

video & audio assets

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Quiz 3

Quiz 4

Quiz 5

Self-reflection log

Course badge

Later maybe formal accreditation

Some kind of informal accreditation

Reuse, Revise and Remix

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Case Study – a UK national health charity

Learning Design workshops – identified audience, aims, tools

for delivery

Partner compiled Asset list to keep track

of assets and copyright permissions

Video introductions to each section filmed

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Quiz 3

Quiz 4

Quiz 5

Video re-filmed to with new re-use

permissions

Some images re-drawn for

online animation

Questions in workbooks re-written for online quizzes

Workbook content revised slightly

Activities reviewed

Reuse, Revise and Remix

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Case Study – a UK national health charity

Release new open course on an open

platform

Partner compiled Asset list to keep track of

assets and copyright permissions

Hold open online events focussing on the course

themes

Encourage learners to share and discuss

via social media

Redistribute

Retain

Scale and Reach wide

CC licence allowing others to reuse and remix for their

context

Promote the course to network of contacts

Invite and analyse feedback, share

findings on OEPS hub

Learners show badge online

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OEPS Hub VisionThe OEPS hub provides an encouraging and engaging place to learn more about open educational practices.

It enables users to:

• UNDERSTAND about OER and Open Educational Practices

• FIND useful OER• Provide tools to DO open – finding, remixing, building• Have a place to DELIVER their OER to the public

OEPS hub: get started page

OEPS hub: using OEP page

OEPS hub: create your own page

OEPS hub features: Communities

OEPS hub: OEPS Community

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Good practice guidanceCase studies from those who practice open education or use OER in an effective or innovative way (there is a route for people to offer case studies)Online courses and guidance:

• How to do OEP (Creating OER and Good OEP) – coming soon

• How to create OER on the platform (OpenLearn Works) – already on OLW

• How to add badges to your OER on the platform (OpenLearn Works) – coming soon

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OpenLearn Works to OpenLearn CreateExisting OER platform hosted by the OU Free public space for people to run their own open learning projects or share OER

OpenLearn Create – creating and re-versioning courses

OER1 – course

learner

Draft course in OLC – experimental sharing space

for OER creators to collaborateGuidance/good

practice (OEPS site, OLC how to guide)

becomes

OER2 – copy of course re-versioned for other

learners, purpose

learner

learner

learner learner

learner

Experience of OER creation feedback to

guidance

Experience of OER re-versioning

feedback to guidance

Feedback and

evaluation

copied

OpenLearn Create – creating open courses

Embedded or linked video

Statement of Participation

Textual contentimages

Quizzes Open Badges

Forums

Interactive glossaries

Blogs

Polls

Feedback and

evaluation

Choice of Creative

Commons licences

User stats and data dashboard for reports

and analyticsRemixing and re-versioning

content

OER search

Peer assessment

Exportable and accessible

formats

Multiple languages

RSS/XML feeds

User profile (creator and

learner)

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

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