Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Awareness of OER and OEP in Scotland: Survey Findings from the OEPS Project

Dr. Beatriz de los Arcos @celTatisDr. Beck Pitt @BeckPitt

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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Surveys• Find out about awareness of OER/OEP

among HE and FE institutions in Scotland• Online (5 weeks)• Results are indicative but not necessarily

representative

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SampleHE (N=235) FE (N=236)

Gender 54.5% female42.1% male

56.4% female42.4% male

Teaching Experience 29.5% >20 years 13.2% 16-20 years

32.2% >20 years 16.1% 16-20 years

Employment status 55.4% full-time44.6% part-time

71.6% full-time28.4% part-time

Teaching context62.7% face-to-face21.7 % blended15.5% online

89.8% face-to-face9.8 % blended.4% online

Teaching level 73.9% undergraduate31.2% National Certificate16.9% Higher National51.9% both

Discipline23% Natural Sciences14% Health & Social Care7% Social Sciences

12.3% Computer & ICT12.3% Care10.2% Engineering

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Awareness of OER - HE

40%

40%

20%

Unaware I've heard of OER but…Aware

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Awareness of OER - FE

54%39%

7%

Unaware I've heard of OER but…Aware

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Awareness of licensing

HE FEPublic Domain 60.6% 68.2%

Copyright 82.4% 90.7%

Creative Commons 50.3% 38.1%

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Use of repositories

YouTube TED OpenLearn Jorum

85.2%

46.1%

30.4%

6.5%

94.9%

39.8%

28.4%

9.3%

HEFE

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Sharing practicesHE FE

I don’t share 6.8% 1.3%

I share through my institution’s VLE 65.5% 69.1%

I share publicly online 9.4% 9.3%

I share in person 37.4% 61.4%

I share via email if asked privately 48.5% 56.4%

“As long as we put hundreds of hours developing new teaching material, where only the delivery and not the development counts in our workload, giving it away for free seems like a bad idea... “

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Engaging in staff development or CPD

HE OER users OER non-usersOpen licensing 41.7% 16.9%

Use of already existing OER 83.3% 59.8%

Creation of new OER 50% 30.1%

Remixing of OER 41.7% 13.8%

Open educational practice 41.7% 14.6%

Open scholarship 9.1% 0%

Open research 2.5% 9.9%

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Contact Us:Email:OEPScotland@open.ac.uk

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