OEPS Project Overview for SUALL Council

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland- presentation for

SUALL Council: 20 March 2015

Pete Cannell (email: [email protected])

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The Promise and the challenge of OER

PROMISE

• Free access to high quality education on a mass scale

• Redrawing the boundaries between informal and formal learning and

between community/workplace learning and college/university learning

CHALLENGE

• At the moment (in Scotland and the rest of Europe) ‘Open Education’

is providing more resources for the ‘educational haves’ and is not

making a significant impact on delivering it’s promise

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Developing Practice

• The OEPS focus is on widening

participation and transitions from

informal to formal education

• We aim to develop the practices

associated with OER that can

support participation and

transition – OEP not OER

Practice is about design, structure and supportBut also about partnership, networks and social models of learning

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How are we trying to do this?

• Linking across different educational and user communities

• Scoping what already exists in terms of practice and understanding – listening hard!

• Embedded evaluation

• Researching and reporting

• Supporting and encouraging the development of new capacity across Scotland

• Analysing and understanding existing practice

• Disseminating good practice

• Developing a Scottish ‘hub’ for OEP

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Currently working with …

• 12 Universities

• 3 Colleges and 1 pan-College sector organisation

• 6 Third sector organisations

• 1 Football club

• 3 Trade Union organisations

• 13 National or Regional organisations

• 2 Research institutes

• 1 EU funded project

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Developing a network and sharing practice

• Informal meetings and dialogue

• Open education workshops

• Learning design workshops

• Advisory forum every 6 months

• Blog/website

www.oepscotland.org

• Conferences and seminars

http://www.oepscotland.org

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Development of new content and new practice

• Parkinsons UK – enabling Parkinsons education to be delivered

at much greater scale

• Glasgow University Welcome Foundation funded programme on

‘end of life care’ – developing a global community of practice

• Carbon Busters – supporting teachers to develop material

around energy and sustainability

• Women into Science and Technology – working with EQUATE

and the OU Science Faculty

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Learning from the practices and approaches associated with already existing OERExample: ULRs into Open Learning Champions

Example: Rural Entrepreneurship – working with SMEs

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Open Badges • Currently 4 and shortly 5 open

badges created under the umbrella

of OEPS and being used at scale

• More in the design process

• Badged Online Access Courses

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Scottish hub for OEP

• Aimed at facilitators of learning

• Links to a small number of exemplar

resources created in partnership

• Tools to support users

• Case studies of effective OEP

• Communities of practice

• A short open course on OER and OEP

• Iterative development of OLW

functionality

• Scottish hub will sit ‘on top’ of OLW

and provide support, community and

examples of practice

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Further detail

• A detailed report on the

progress of the project is

available at:

http://oepscotland.org/about/a

boutoeps-project-reports/

http://oepscotland.org/about/aboutoeps-project-reports/

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Useful links• OER from the OU

• www.open.edu/openlearn/

• Open Platform which is open for others to host OER

• www.open.edu/openlearnworks/

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/


Contact Us: Email:

[email protected]

Social media:

@OEPScotland

www.oepscotland.org

OEPS Project Overview for SUALL Council

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