Presentation by Pete Cannell at the Promise of Open Education conference, the final event organised by the OEPS project

1. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Learning from OEPS
#BeOpen
Facilitating the promise of open education

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Learning from OEPS
#BeOpen
Ron Mader, CC BY-SA 2.0,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/25056426410
•Open practice, learning design,
student focus and social context
•Working across boundaries
•Costs and models of open
•Supportive and adaptable policy
framework
•Legacy

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Open practice
Learning design, student focus and social context
Participatory design helps avoid implicit assumptions about students
context and course design
Consider context, barriers and
preconceptions – value prior
experience
Open to new/old models – value of
peer support (book group example)

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Working across boundaries
Huge value in working across boundaries – particularly in work on
transitions, knowledge exchange and professional development. Learning
on both sides – challenges of competing priorities.
Developing trust is a worthwhile challenge.
Pressure from demand and developments
outside the academy e.g. SSSC Open
Badges.
Combining practice-based
and academic knowledge to mutual
advantage.
Mick Garratt, Field Boundaries, CC BY-SA 2.0
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2957424

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Costs and models of open
• MOOCs or open courses – MOOC carries baggage with it
assumptions about costs and models
• OEPS exemplars – www.open.edu/openlearncreate/OEPS
• Open licensing allows reuse, remixing – virtuous circle of
development
• Bringing together economies of scale with low cost
contextualisation
• Top down or bottom up? - what enables the latter?

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Policy Framework
Supportive and adaptable
To liberate the potential of open requires:
Support for developing new approaches to digital literacy
Continuing attention to overcoming barriers to participation
Recognition that open education is dynamic and developing
Recognition of the innovative examples of good practice that exist in
Scotland
Open by default? Stop talking about online learning?

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Legacy resources
Courses, case studies, reports, briefings, guidance, workshop plans and
tools for creating open resources
OEPS Collection
www.open.edu/openlearncreate/OEPS
OEPS Archive
www.oepscotland.org
Slideshare
https://www.slideshare.net/OEPScotland