Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Update for Staff Tutors 26 October 2015

The projectCross-sector project led by the Open University in Scotland but also involving the OU’s Open Media Unit (OMU) and the Institute of Educational Technology (IET)

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Open Education and Open Practice

Widening participation and transitions

What we’ve been doing - engagementWith around 50 partners:•Listening•Advising•Learning Design Workshops•Working on projects to develop new OER•Working on projects to develop effective practice that uses, adapts or remixes new OER

Partners include:Unions, Universities, Research Institutes, Third Sector Organisations, Colleges, Quangos, Businesses

What we’ve been doing - researchWe see the project as a multi-stranded action research project:

Case studiesReportsPeer reviewed papersLatest activity – Scottish HEI survey (closes 20 November) - http://bit.ly/OEPS_HEIs

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Exemplar OER Courses in production

Parkinson’s UK – due end of 2015 (25 hour course aimed at Care Assistants …) Badged – possibly also for credit ( peer assessment)

End of Life Care (Glasgow Uni) – (first module early 2016) Suite of specialist modules – global reach – global community – scholarship

Global Seaweed (SAMS) – (first module May 2016) Suite of specialist modules – Scottish govt priority + global community

Exemplar OER – possible 2016•Development of Caring Counts with Scottish Water (remixing)

•Phase two of Parkinson’s – short high-level specialist modules for medical professionals [funded by donor]

•Five further End of Life modules •Further SAMS modules

•Scots OER [funded by OUiS Knowledge Exchange money]

•101 OER created collaboratively on a sector basis

•Women in to STEM???

Projects on Open Learn Works

Improving tools for authoring to make it much more user friendly

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