WIHEA #KNOWHOWExploring open practices in education

A remix based on Comfortable Chaos with thanks to Laura Hilliger @epilepticrabbit CC BY SA

Who are we?Project team are staff and students of the University of Warwick, co-researching together thanks to WIHEA.

What does “open” really mean?

Transparency

Decentralisation

Innovation

The 10 dimensions of open education

Image: The 10 dimensions of open education from Opening up education by EU science hubhttps://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/opening-education-support-framework-higher-education-institutions

Distributed Leadership

What distributed leadership looks like

Leading by Example: Behaviours that spur cultural shifts➔ Standing up for others➔ Listening➔ Giving credit➔ Sharing openly➔ Being polite, kind and human➔ Admitting mistakes➔ Acting with integrity➔ all those behaviours you learned when you were

little and then forgot because the world got “complicated”.

We are all responsible.

Open Practices

Transparency: open sharing of our activities

● On twitter #knowhow #wihea● On G+ #knowhow community● On WIHEA news pages● On our blog● In all our interactions with colleagues

Creative Commons licences for sharing:

Designing for Participation

Inviting participation

➔ Individual outreach. It’s so easy to say please and thank you, ask how people are.

➔ Listening. Amazing what you hear if you learn to listen well.

PRINCIPLES●Open discussion●Participation●Contributions●Community

PRACTICES●Transparency with internal

colleagues and other / external stakeholders

●Gain / Encourage feedback and adapt iterative changes

●Collaborate to build trust and respect

OUTCOMES

●Engagement and dissemination

●A culture of sharing is put on display

How we will work together:

TRANSPARENT

INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY-CENTRIC

Explain what problems you're trying to solve, the requirements and constraints involved, the process you will follow, how people can contribute.

Engage others for feedback and collaborate throughout the decision-making process.

Seek out diverse perspectives, including potential detractors.

What is an open decision?

Engage your Warwick network for feedback and bring this into the project.

Seek out diverse perspectives, including potential detractors.