Open Educational Practice:what’s in it for us?

• Lis Parcell• Cathie Jackson• Bethan Wyn Jones• Alan Thomas• Sahm Nikoi

Gregynog Colloquium 12 June 2013

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Open education: sharing, reducing barriers, increasing access

Open educational practices (OEP):“all activities that open up access to educational opportunity, in a context where freely available online content and services

[…] are taken as the norm.“ http://bit.ly/OERterminology

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Opening up education – not new

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5188228186

• “teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use […] Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.” www.oercommons.org

• “Resources that are specifically licenced to be used and re-used in an educational context” http://bit.ly/oerinfokit

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Open courses and MOOCs

http://bit.ly/OERterminology

Online Digital Learning Working Group

http://gwallter.com/digital/moocs-and-other-animals-in-wales-what-do-you-think.html

Learning to share, sharing to learn

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

21st century scholarship: many eyes

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What about students?

http://www.righttoresearch.org/

“Sharing is a relationship for cyclical advantage, not altruism, and students will keep resources to themselves in order to gain competitive advantage.”Lorna Campbell reporting on OER13 http://bit.ly/11uMzpX

“…little is known about what lifelong learners are doing with OER resources”Allison Littlejohn, OER4Adults http://bit.ly/11RsCIM

“While many students made use of OER, it was much more common for them to be used when they were endorsed or required by their teachers.”

Toni Pearce, OER13 keynotebit.ly/18r0XIk

Role of library and info professionals in OER

Gema Bueno–de-la-Fuente speaking at OER13http://www.medev.ac.uk/oer13/30/view/

Open practice around Wales

• Cathie Jackson, Cardiff University

• Bethan Wyn Jones and Alan Thomas, Bangor University

• Sahm Nikoi, Aberystwyth University

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So what’s in it for us?Possible questions

• Does open practice fit with our roles?• What about staff and students we support?• What open practices can we use/develop?• If we’re to work more openly, what needs to

change?• What can we bring to the current debates on

open educational practice and digital learning?

Open Educational Practice Briefing

http://bit.ly/164P86m

OER infoKit

April 11, 2023 | slide 16http://bit.ly/oerinfokit

Online Learning topic guide

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/topics/online-learning/

CETIS

http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/oer

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