The document reports on the findings of a survey conducted as part of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project. The survey aimed to understand awareness and use of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) among higher education and further education institutions in Scotland. Key findings include that 40% of higher education respondents reported being aware of OER, compared to 54% of further education respondents. The majority of both higher and further education respondents were aware of concepts like public domain and copyright. YouTube and TED were the most commonly used open education repositories. The document concludes by providing contact information for the OEPS project.

1. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Awareness of OER and
OEP in Scotland:
Survey Findings from the OEPS Project
Dr. Beatriz de los Arcos @celTatis
Dr. Beck Pitt @BeckPitt

2. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
About us
The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
project 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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3. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Surveys
• Find out about awareness of OER/OEP among HE
and FE institutions in Scotland
• Online (5 weeks)
• Results are indicative but not necessarily
representative

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Sample
HE (N=235) FE (N=236)
Gender
54.5% female
42.1% male
56.4% female
42.4% male
Teaching Experience
29.5% >20 years
13.2% 16-20 years
32.2% >20 years
16.1% 16-20 years
Employment status
55.4% full-time
44.6% part-time
71.6% full-time
28.4% part-time
Teaching context
62.7% face-to-face
21.7 % blended
15.5% online
89.8% face-to-face
9.8 % blended
.4% online
Teaching level 73.9% undergraduate
31.2% National Certificate
16.9% Higher National
51.9% both
Discipline
23% Natural Sciences
14% Health & Social Care
7% Social Sciences
12.3% Computer & ICT
12.3% Care
10.2% Engineering

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Awareness of OER - HE
40%
40%
20%
Unaware I've heard of OER but… Aware

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Awareness of OER - FE
54%39%
7%
Unaware I've heard of OER but… Aware

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Awareness of licensing
HE FE
Public Domain 60.6% 68.2%
Copyright 82.4% 90.7%
Creative Commons 50.3% 38.1%

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Use of repositories
YouTube TED OpenLearn Jorum
85.2%
46.1%
30.4%
6.5%
94.9%
39.8%
28.4%
9.3%
HE
FE

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Sharing practices
HE FE
I don’t share 6.8% 1.3%
I share through my institution’s
VLE
65.5% 69.1%
I share publicly online 9.4% 9.3%
I share in person 37.4% 61.4%
I share via email if asked
privately
48.5% 56.4%
“As long as we put hundreds of hours developing new teaching
material, where only the delivery and not the development counts in
our workload, giving it away for free seems like a bad idea... “

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Engaging in staff development or CPD
HE OER users OER non-users
Open licensing 41.7% 16.9%
Use of already existing OER 83.3% 59.8%
Creation of new OER 50% 30.1%
Remixing of OER 41.7% 13.8%
Open educational practice 41.7% 14.6%
Open scholarship 9.1% 0%
Open research 2.5% 9.9%

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12. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Contact Us: Email:
OEPScotland@open.ac.uk
Social media:
@OEPScotland
www.oepscotland.org