1. Creating openly licensed courses for use in workplace and community settings
Pete Cannell and Ronald Macintyre

2. About us
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland is a cross-sector project that 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.

3. OEPS Now in final six months of 3-year project
Working with >60 partners to identify and share good practice.
Working with partners to develop exemplar OER

4. What do we mean by OER?
Our understanding of Open Educational Resources is grounded in established notions of openly licensed content. We have a specific focus on freedoms afforded by openly licensing content (allowing “The 5 Rs”: retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute) and the degree to which design, development and distribution accounts for equity and openness.

5. What do we mean by OEP?
Open Educational Practices are usually understood as approaches to teaching and facilitation using technology to support learning in the context of high quality OER.
The OEPS project has found it helpful to extend notions of Open Educational Practice to the include social practices that mediate between providers, partners and learners.
We have explored the value of co-design with partners and learners.

6. Approach Multi-stranded action research project
Each partner strand involved the typical action research cycle of planning, acting, observing and reflecting
Identifying good practice and share new understanding across the strands of the project
CC0 Public Domain

7. Use practice and beyond
Ladder of OER engagement (Alison Littlejohn)
Initially partners from the informal learning sector are interested in how to use open and on barriers to use
Shifts to interest in creating new courses
Driven by
Free
Decline in other areas of support
Interest in digital participation

8. Exemplar courses Short, free, openly licensed
Five live, eight in production
Produced in partnership
Responding to partner needs and motivations
Strong demand for:
Transitions – filling gaps
Professional development
Knowledge exchange
superfactice CC0

9. Co-design
Team approach – organisation from informal sector + university
Initial ‘Learning Design Workshop’
Centred on student – thinking about what the students need, what they bring with them, what the study context is – surfacing assumptions.
Draws on ideas of participatory design – looks for ways of making learning social
Parallels with older non-digital models

10. Professional development in partnership with Parkinson’s UK

11. OpenLearn Create www.open.edu/openlearncreate/

12. 4/11/2018
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