exploring opportunities and challenges in open and online content in the third sector

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Open and Online Content in the Third SectorRonald Macintyre & Claire Hewitt@roughbounds@ParkinsonsUK@OEPScotland #ilovecharity

Cite as: Macintyre R., Hewitt C. (2017) “Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Open and Online Content in the Third Sector”, The Gathering, 23rd/24th of February, Glasgow, CC BY NC SA 4.0

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Session(s) Structure• Introduction to OEPS and OER and OEP• Sharing our Experience:

• Case Study 1: Developing New Content• Case Study 2: Support Models for Digital Participation

• Sharing your Experience: Worshop Exercise 3: Mapping the Learning Journey• Conclusions and Questions


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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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.

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What do we mean by OEP?We think of Open Educational Practices as those educational practices that are concerned with and promote equity and openness. Our understanding of ‘open’ builds on the freedoms associated with “the 5 Rs” of OER, promoting a broader sense of open, emphasising social justice, and developing practices that open up opportunities for those distanced from education.

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Hands Up!

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Hands Up, CC0 Public Domain, Free for commercial use, no attribution requiredhttps://pixabay.com/en/hands-hand-raised-hands-raised-220163/


Todays Purpose

Share our experiences of designing developing and using free open online materials and allow you to explore what they might enable in your context. “”

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UK Parkinson’s Excellence Network• The history of Parkinson’s UK’s education delivery• Working with OEPS

• Why work with the OU and what are the benefits?• What are the challenges?

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Scottish Union LearnSUL support learners in the workplace through a network of learning organisers. What did openness enable?•Its interest in free and open – developing new education opportunities and support digital participation•The approach – built on organisational values, self directed and social support, collective learning, •Still digital challenges, employers attitude, capacity to support those that are supporting others in the workplace


What if …?


Imagine a future where education and information is free and open …

What would it mean for you as an organisation/Individual that uses free open content

What would it mean for you as an organisation/individual that provides free open content


If we want to see free and open what would need to happen to make it happen, and what will happen …

What does that mean for you as an organisation/Individual, what are the changes & what are the implications,

What do you think it would enable for you and the clients or the people you support

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Concluding Remarks …


Questions

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