Short OEPS presentation for Open Knowledge Scotland
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The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project aims to increase awareness and use of open educational resources (OER) in Scotland. Led by the Open University in Scotland in partnership with over 50 organizations across education sectors, the project involves workshops, presentations, and developing exemplar OER and practices. Emerging themes include the importance of partnerships, interest outside of formal education, extending learning design to incorporate social settings, co-creation, and supporting learning communities through an online hub rather than just a repository.
Short OEPS presentation for Open Knowledge Scotland
- 1. Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) Open Knowledge Scotland: 24 November 2015
- 2. The project Cross-sector project in Scotland tasked to increase the awareness and use of OER. Led by OU in Scotland as part of its outcome agreement with the Scottish Funding Council. Currently working with around 50 organisations …
- 3. Origins An extensive range of partnerships between the OU in Scotland and other organisations: third sector, unions, employers, colleges and schools. An increase in interest in OER and the development of some partnerships to co-produce new material and practices. Adults, transitions and widening participation.
- 4. Focusing on Practice Practice is about design, structure and support But also about partnership, networks and social models of learning
- 5. Project activities •Discussion with partners and potential partners – approx 50 •Workshops oLearning Design aimed at developing practice o‘Open Learning Champions’ oA range of open practice topics •Presentations at conferences and seminars •Advisory forums •Developing exemplar OER and associated practice •Supporting development and piloting of badges in WP contexts •Developing hub for open educational practice •Embedded evaluation and research •Reports and papers
- 6. Emerging Themes • Partnership • High levels of interest outside the formal education sector • Extending learning design and practice to include the use of materials in social settings – importance of peer support • Value of working with partners who are embedded in their own well established networks • The opportunities that are created by working with partners where individuals play intermediary or facilitating roles with fellow workers, clients … • Value of co-creation and collaborative design • OER ladder – from use through to remixing • The online hub is being designed to support learning communities – not another repository
- 7. Contact Us: Email: [email protected] Social media: @OEPScotland Blog and project progress: www.oepscotland.org Community hub for Open Educational Practice: www.oeps.ac.uk Slides available at
Editor's Notes
- #3: Ronnie We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session. The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education. Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
- #4: Ronnie We know there is a lot of work to do to maintain focus in creating high quality free materials, to encourage re use, and to ensure that the agenda of free and open remains high on the political agenda, and people will have a chance to explore this in the afternoon in the Open Scotland declaration session. The next promise is not so easy, we have large numbers, but it seems we have made things accessible we have not always broadened participation, certainly not in the strict sense of broadening the socio-economic base of those accessing education. Our sense is the best way to meet this challenge is to learn from what we (and many others) have done to explore how to broaden the socio-economic base of those accessing education. We think we have a great deal that can be learnt and applied from those working in this area, and we are pleased that so many have come along today. I think what it suggests is that there is a coming together of those interested in using the freedoms and low transaction costs of sharing openly licensed materials online and those who are working in communities with those distanced from education.
- #5: Ronnie Open education practices encompass, as any education practice that stretches and tests the spaces between online and face to face education, it draws in a lot of different educational practices. Our focus is on the pratices around how one designs learning in for and through openness, but also (and we feel this is crucial) the educational practices that structure and support learning in the open, and it is ours sense at the moment these are best served through opening up the academy to new voices and through bringing learners in by bringing in those they to use andtrust, through partnerships with those that support those most distanced from education.
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