Open Educational Practices (OEP) #CamLibs18
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This document discusses open educational practices (OEP) and resources (OER). It defines OEP as collaborative practices involving creation and sharing of OER and pedagogical practices using social networks. OEP can benefit education through increased access, decreased costs, and developing digital literacies, but also faces barriers like lack of skills, support and compatibility with institutional culture. The document also discusses the author's PhD research on academic staff adoption of OEP and how balancing privacy and openness is complex and personal. It concludes that open education can be a tool for social change.
Open Educational Practices (OEP) #CamLibs18
- 1. Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 owaief89 Open Educational Practices Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin #CamLibs18 11 Jan 2018
- 2. Catherine Cronin open educator, open resercher CELT, National University of Ireland, Galway @catherinecronin catherinecronin.net
- 3. Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division from the New York Public Library (public domain) To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future makes the present inhabitable. Rebecca Solnit (2004) Hope in the Dark “
- 5. OER / OEP + libraries open benefits + tensions OER / OEP
- 6. pen Image: CC0 by Nadine Shaabana
- 7. open education goal philosophy collective term resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide - The Open Education Consortium
- 8. OER Open Educational Resources OEP Open Educational Practices
- 9. Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk OEP (Open Educational Practices) OER (Open Educational Resources) Free Open Admission (e.g. Open Universities) INTERPRETATIONS of ‘OPEN’ Free + Permissions for use, adaptation & redistribution by others
- 10. CC BY 4.0 David Wiley, OER 101 Open Educational Resource (OER) “the 5Rs” = permissions
- 11. OEP (Open Educational Practices) OER (Open Educational Resources) Free Open Admission (e.g. Open Universities) INTERPRETATIONS of ‘OPEN’ OER + open pedagogies, open sharing of teaching practices, open tools Free + Permissions for use, adaptation & redistribution by others Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk
- 12. collaborative practices that include the creation, use and reuse of OER and pedagogical practices employing participatory technologies and social networks for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge creation & sharing, and empowerment of learners. Open Educational Practices (OEP) References: Andrade, et al. (2011); Beetham, et al. (2012); Czerniewicz, et al. (2016, 2017); Ehlers (2011); Geser (2007); Hodgkinson-Williams (2014)
- 13. networked educators networked students Physical Spaces Bounded Online Spaces Open Online Spaces Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on Networked Teacher image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros higher education
- 14. In courses organized as networks… course activity takes place in distributed online fora. …positioning knowledge around social connections rather than around content, enabling scholars to re-envision teaching, instruction, their role as teachers, and the ways that knowledge is acquired in modern society. “Networked Participatory Scholarship” Veletsianos & Kimmons (2012) “
- 15. INTERPRETATIONS of ‘OPEN’ Policy/ Culture Values Practices Activities LEVELS of OPENNESS OEP (Open Educational Practices) OER (Open Educational Resources) Free Open Admission (e.g. Open Universities) IndividualInstitutional Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Marcel Oosterwijk
- 16. (i) whether, why, how, and to what extent academic staff use OEP for teaching, and (ii) shared characteristics of ‘open educators’, if any. my PhD research Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of OEP by academic staff in higher education
- 17. Balancing privacy and openness Developing digital literacies Valuing social learning Challenging traditional teaching role expectations 4 dimensions shared by open educators
- 18. Balancing privacy & openness Image: CC BY 2.0 woodleywonderworks
- 19. Balancing privacy and openness will I share openly? whom will I share with? (context collapse) who will I share as? (digital identity) will I share this? MACRO MESO MICRO NANO
- 20. For individuals, the use of OEP is: complex personal contextual continually negotiated
- 21. OER / OEP + libraries open benefits + tensions OER / OEP
- 22. Image: CC0 Stijn Swinnen It has never been more risky to operate in the open. It has never been more vital to operate in the open. Martin Weller (2016)
- 23. OEP: Potential benefits • Increased access to education • Decreased cost (e.g. OER, open textbooks) • Developing digital, data, & network literacies • New forms of dialogue and global collaboration • Student agency & empowerment • Bridging formal & informal learning • Public outreach and engagement • Enhancing & expanding the scope of learning
- 24. OEP: Barriers & tensions • Lack of… o awareness o understanding (e.g. permissions, attribution) o skills (e.g. digital/information literacies) o support • Coordination across the institution • Incompatibility between existing institutional cultures & the philosophy of open education
- 25. OER / OEP + libraries open benefits + tensions OER / OEP
- 26. Resources
- 27. LOEL Research Report (2017) https://libraryasleader.org “It is important for librarians to be a part of the ongoing conversation about OER at our colleges.”
- 28. Civic Switchboard (2017) https://civic-switchboard.github.io/ @civicswitch Encourages partnerships between libraries and local data intermediaries; these partnerships will better serve data users, further democratize data, and support equitable access to information. The project will create a toolkit for libraries interested in expanding (or beginning) their role around civic information.
- 29. Opening up Education (2016) A Support Framework for Higher Education Institutions Source: Santos, A.I., Punie, Y., & Muñoz, J.C. (2016)
- 30. Open education is a tool for social change. Santos, A.I., Punie, Y., & Muñoz, J.C. (2016) Opening up Education: A Support Framework for Higher Education Institutions “
- 31. Thank You! Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin catherinecronin.net Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division from the New York Public Library (public domain)
- 32. all sources and references available at: http://bit.ly/oep-CamLibs18
Editor's Notes
- #2: I often use this image as a wonderful illustration of OPEN… No music. No coffee. Just an awesome (in the true sense of the word), open, public space… Open & connected. Begs Q: How can education (HE) aspire to this idea of open, inclusive & connected learning, in its biggest sense?
- #3: I’m Catherine Cronin – open educator & open researcher
- #7: Flexible concept! constantly evolving, assuming different meanings in different contexts and discourses. All the OPENS… education, access, science, research, data, MOOCs, OER, OEP, pedagogy, etc.
- #8: ‘openness’ advocates transparency & lowering or removal of barriers (at all levels within an institution) including processes involved in R, T + L. AIM = improve educational access, effectiveness & equality
- #10: OER = K. as public good: Take it! Use it! Change it! Reuse it in your context… Licensed for reuse – Reuse –use the content in a wide range of ways – Revise –adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content – Remix –combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new – Redistribute –share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others – Retain –make, own & control copies of the content
- #12: OER: licensed for reuse: 5 Rs… (Reuse – Revise – Remix – Redistribute – Retain) Definition of OEP is more complex… not just the artifacts/content, but the “live practices” of open education 2 broad families of definitions of OEP: OER-focused or OER plus! open pedagogies; open learning; open scholarship; open tech respect & empower L’s as co-producers
- #14: In academic settings in which the use of OEP is not required, requested, expected, or specifically supported, why do some educators, and not others, choose to use OEP? (...and then what happens?)
- #15: Networked participatory scholarship is the emergent practice of scholars’ use of participatory technologies and online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and further their scholarship...
- #16: I have found this to be a useful map both for positioning my own research, and considering other work in the Open Education domain. WHERE DOES IT FIT? Terrain of my research = UPPER LEFT + MID/LOWER RIGHT Applicability of my research, hopefully = UPPER RIGHT
- #17: GOAL was to understand…
- #23: Many educators working in the area of open education increasingly speak about the importance of a critical approach to openness, recognising that while it is wonderful to learn/connect in the Open, there are Risks as well... and those most at risk of negative consequences of openness are those who are marginalised, in any way. Navigating this tension IS OUR WORK as educators.
- #28: The LOEL faculty & librarian participants redesigned courses with open content they also offered insight into why & how librarians can be essential collaborators on open ed projects
- #29: 3-year project by faculty & librarians at 34 colleges in Washington. How librarians can add value to the open course creation process: Time required Adopt vs. Adapt Librarian role: Search + Licensing + “librarians can better define the role that they want to play in course design before projects begin”
- #31: Local & and global collaboration Resources will be better deployed New practices on knowledge exchange New practices on credit recognition Make education more inclusive & more mobile Lower barriers to access & progression Education more closely with needs of the labour market & increasingly open, networked & participatory culture