what we talk about when we talk about open

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

What we talk about when we talk about open … Ronald Macintyre @roughbounds

Cite as: Macintyre R. (2017) “What we talk about when we talk about open”, CC BY NC SA 4.0

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Session(s) StructureSome of the things we talk about

Some of the things we rarely talk about

Some of the things we ought to talk about

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Some of the things we talk about

We often talk aboutOpen LicencesTechnology [barrier and enabler]Learning Design/FrameworksOpening up Content

We also talk aboutPlatforms, repositoriesMeta data, Granularity, interoperabilityMarketing/Brand

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Some of the things are starting to talk about

Knowledge and Power

Widening Participation

What we actually know about Open and Distance Learning

Voices and knowledge from outside the academy“”

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

What we ought to be talking about

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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

What would open look like as a discourse

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Opening Educational Practices in ScotlandIf openness could/should be two way …

Reflecting on curriculum design, production and critically learners, consider the implications for our systems and our own practiceThink aboutWhat do you have the power/ capacity to do?What would you like the power/capacity to do?What do you need (resources/ skills/ recognition) to be able to do this?“”

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

AcknowledgementsLaura Hills, Pete Cannell, Ove Christensen, Raymond Carver