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Opening Educational Practices in ScotlandLearning the hard way:
lessons in designing open educational resources in, for and through partnership [1326]Ronald Macintyre and Anna Page (OEPS), 6 September 2016 for ALTC
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
About usThe 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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What do we mean by OEP?
We think of Open Educational Practices as those educational practices that are concerned with and promote equity and openness. Our understanding of ‘open’ builds on the freedoms associated with “the 5 Rs” of OER, promoting a broader sense of open, emphasising social justice, and developing practices that open up opportunities for those distanced from education.
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Development of new content and new practices
Working in partnership – typical scenario• 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
Working in partnership – partnership as a design process*
• Explore the Partner’s needs and what they know about the learners
• Learning through doing – participatory design• Draw out their expertise, they draw on our education expertise• Help them identify uncertainties, build expertise and revise their content• Build their confidence in course creation• Challenge our thinking – for example is existing OER relevant for their context? * Cannell, P., Macintyre, R. and Hewitt, L. (2015) ‘Widening access and OER: developing new practice’, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 17(1), pp. 64-72.
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Development of new content and new practices
Emerging issues• EXISTING MATERIALS: Materials may exist online
already but not in a format best suited for online learning
• TIME FOR DISCUSSION: • 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
• SCHEDULE: 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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Good practice• 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• Case studies about partner created OERs shared on
OEPS hub
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Development of new content and new practices
Practice based knowledge
Technical capability
OEPS team PartnerAcademic
knowledge
Collaboration via adapted course team methodology
Skills in educational
design
Intellectual property
Quality processes for
production
Learners
Networks
Contributions
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Development of new content and new practices
Quiz co-authoring
Video editing (use external contractor)
OEPS team PartnerAdvice and guidance
Current roles and responsibilities
Quiz co-authoring
Video filming (external
contractor)
Content tagging,
rendering
Authoring, identify assets
Quiz testing
Critical reading
Critical reading
Quiz building and testing
Draft Course reviewing
Badge set up Badge design
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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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Production issues with OU and external partner model
• Roles and responsibilities need to be agreed in the early production stages to avoid misunderstandings and delays• Authoring – who is writing it and what impact on their time?• Assessment – who writes quiz questions?• If badged, who is designing the badge?• Who sets up and tests the materials?
• Internal OU production methods are geared to OU materials for students or OpenLearn, for example video production
• Some OU systems not ‘open’ to external users – a direct authoring tool for OpenLearn Works/Create is coming, but is several months away
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Development of new content and new practices
Quiz co-authoring
University Partner
Advice and guidance (on
OEPS hub)Future roles and responsibilities
Video filming & editing (external
contractor)
Authoring, identify assets
Quiz building and testing
Critical reading
Draft Course reviewing
Badge design and set up
Content upload
What services might be offered?
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OEPS open courses so farCreated collaboratively with partners• Understanding Parkinson’s
http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/UnderstandingParkinsons
Case study at http://www.oeps.ac.uk/create-your-own/building-oer-partnership-understanding-parkinsons Evaluation early findings https://oepscotland.org/2016/07/14/preliminary-findings-evaluation-pilot-cohort-studying-understanding-parkinsons/
• My Seaweed looks weird http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/SAMS_SeaweedWeird
Created collaboratively by the OEPS team with open review
• Becoming an open educatorhttp://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/becoming-open-educator
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ReferencesCannell, P., Macintyre, R. and Hewitt, L. (2015) ‘Widening access and OER:
developing new practice’, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 17(1), pp. 64-72.
Grant, R. M. (2010) Contemporary Strategy Analysis, 7th edn, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.
Kemmis, S. (2010). Research for praxis: Knowing doing Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 18, 1, 9-27.
Lane, A. (2012) Collaborative Development of Open Educational Resources for Open and Distance Learning, HE Academy, http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/oer/OER_CS_Andy_Lane_Collaborative_development_of_OER_for_distance%20learning.pdf last accessed 16th of August 2013
Macintyre R. (2015) Designing Open Learning Journeys http://www.oeps.ac.uk/create-your-own/designing-open-learning-journeys [accessed March 2016]