Alastair Clark

Do adult educators recognise the full potential the Open Education

movement to enrich learning?

Alastair Clark

• Adult Learning Manager• Senior Programme

Director NIACE• Senior Research Fellow

NIACE

• Teacher of Navigation / Maths / French.

• Observer - WEA

6 bolts from the blue!

• Who are these educators?• What are they doing?• CLIF• Projects in a box • Over the CLIF• Questions for us all?

Community Learning Innovation Fund

• £4m Fund May 2012

• Launched by the Skills Funding Agency -England

• The purpose of the Fund was to support new and creative learning opportunities, particularly for disadvantaged people……

CLIF

97

projects

New and innovative

Project in a Box

Target

Older people and people with long term and chronic health conditions

Aim

new skills, gain confidence take …part in their community through volunteering.

Project in a box

19 responses

I had not heard of Open Educational Resources before CLIF and still don't really understand what they are.

I had never heard of Open Educational Resources but after participating in CLIF, I understand the principle.

I was well aware of the Open Educational Resources before joining CLIF

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• When asked to make the products of your CLIF project open for others to use which of these best described your reaction?

We are a small oragnisation with limited assets we prefer to keep this material for ourselves and possibly sell it later.

We are happy to share in principle but our material was made for local use and a wider audience may be critical of

what we have made.

We are very happy to share our materials with others.

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As a Community Educator are you aware of how to find OERs that you can use?

Yes 9No 10

• As a Community Educator are you aware of how to license any materials you make in future for others to use as OERs?

Yes 6

No 13

In the CLIF programme it was a requirement of the funding that you marked your materials:

Copyright vested in the Crown and available to use under an Open Government licence.

Which of these statements best describes your view of this requirement?

I was not aware if this requirement

I was aware of this and was content to give copyright to the Crown

I was aware of this requirement and would have preferred to keep the copyright for our organisation and not shared the content.

I was aware of this requirement and would have preferred to keep the copyright for our organisation but would have been happy to make the

material available to others through a Creative Commons Licence.

I do not consider licensing to be important enough to spend any time on.

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As a Community Educator are you aware of how to adapt OERs to meet your specific learners’ needs?

Yes 8No 9

They want to do the right thing but not sure what the right

thing is.

• Was this a bold move which was effective in sharing resources created?

• Did the requirement for content sharing raise commitment of participants to Open Education?

• Was an Open Government Licence an appropriate tool with which to ensure sharing?

What can you take from this experience?

What strategies can be adopted to advance open educational practice?

Does it really matter anyway?

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