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And funnily enough I recommended it to my MSc. Information Management students when I did a lecture on OER! Thanks Simon ☺ Virginia Virginia Power Graduate Tutor/Researcher in Information Science & Management Faculty of Environment and Technology University of the West of England Room 2Q19 (Monday to Wednesday; Thursday and Friday are Research Days) 0117 3287921 07773 773228 From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Vivien Rolfe Sent: 15 October 2015 16:01 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: What is open educational practice? And I was looking at this only today Simon - very useful! VIv On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Thomson, Simon <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Leo, If you are developing an introduction to OER feel free to use our staff guide to OER which we developed as part of our work in 2009/10. The pdf version is here: http://repository.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/main/view_record.php?identifier=2711&SearchGroup=Open+Educational+Resources The editable text only version is here: http://repository.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/main/view_record.php?identifier=2917&SearchGroup=Open+Educational+Resources Simon [cid:image001.png@01D10772.15997620] Simon Thomson, Head of Digital Pedagogy Centre for Learning and Teaching Leeds Beckett University, Caedmon 122, Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)113 81 26303 | Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> National Teaching Fellow Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Twitter: @digisim<https://twitter.com/digisim> Google+: https://plus.google.com/+SimonThomson From: Open Education Special Interest Group <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Leo Havemann <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: Open Education Special Interest Group <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 15:17 To: Open Education Special Interest Group <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: What is open educational practice? I am a fan of both openwashing and fauxpen ☺ (the terms, not the practices!) This is a timely discussion for me, as I am working (at a sort of snail’s pace) on a piece of writing that is ostensibly an introduction to OER, but which I feel is going to have to end up being about the wider concept of OEP. I think the recent shift of focus towards OEP is quite important, enabling thinking about ways of working more openly, and forging connections across different ‘open silos’ (attribution for that great term goes to Lorna Campbell ☺ - https://lornamcampbell.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/open-silos-open-data-and-oer/). Javiera Atenas and I have written a bit here on what OEP means to us: http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/blogs/crowdsourcing-quality-or-why-openness-matters. Fundamentally for me I suppose it is about understanding and negotiating the different shades of open, that open will inevitably be used to mean different things, and to be clear on how we are using it, to mean what, and in order to achieve what. All the best Leo From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cable Green Sent: 15 October 2015 14:54 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: What is open educational practice? Attribution for “Faux-pen” goes to David Wiley. I typically call it "open washing." Attribution Audrey Waters: https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/184387170415558656 I'm all about reuse ;) Cable On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Bird, Terese M. <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hi all, Just to mention, the ICDE conference is going on in South Africa today, and I’ve seen a few tweets referring to False Open Materials…. Or “Faux-pen” as Cable Green started calling them. I thought you’d like that! Cheers! Terese Bird, ALT OE SIG Committee From: Open Education Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Terry Loane Sent: 14 October 2015 18:27 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: What is open educational practice? My starting point for answering the question "what is open educational practice?" is this definition: ... the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good[my emphasis] and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. (usually attributed to Smith & Casserly) But we have some way to go in persuading authors, commercial publishers, institutions and individual teachers that knowledge can be a public good, in other words a 'product' that one individual can use without in any way reducing its availability to others. The whole of the publishing industry and copyright law is surely based on continuing the pretence that knowledge can have 'scarcity value' when the Internet has (legally and otherwise) destroyed that scarcity. But it is difficult to put this ideal into practice because we do not yet have adequate models for rewarding the effort that goes into creating knowledge resources. Things were actually easier, I think, in the first decade of the century when more money was flowing around education. But life is now much harder because of decisions to direct funding away from public education and because of the concomitant increase in casualisation/instrumentalisation of the relationship between institutions and teachers. So we have another aspect of sustainability. It's not just about the sustainability of access to resources that are already out/up there (which is a significant problem, as you say, Viv and Teresa), but it is also about the sustainability of teachers' energy and will to create and share new resources. Those who know me will not be surprised that I continue to believe that practical solutions will somehow come about through bottom-up collaboration rather than big top-down systems. Best wishes Terry On 14/10/2015 11:59, Teresa MacKinnon wrote: Love Lorna's post and yes Terese to quality through collaboration - my experience is that both carrot and stick needed for this to happen. On sustainability (mentioned last night in the Video for All webinar and also the subject of a collaborative paper I'm involved in) when related to teaching practice all "actors" need to see relative advantage. I am currently battling with this myself. There are platforms I use to share my materials but they often do not display CC licences as I would like. (eg. slideshare) Our institutional platforms are not very open on the whole and others I have used are now unable to cope with the technical changes that have happened so rapidly of late (scorm - really?). I am wary of companies claiming to provide free hosting in return for passing over materials. I think this initiative is interesting https://reclaimhosting.com/ Like most I guess I am feeling my way but to me OEP is: -a mindset -a way of thinking beyond the immediate -a contribution to teaching practice and learning -- Cable Green, PhD Director of Global Learning Creative Commons @cgreen<http://twitter.com/cgreen> retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute Get Creative Commons Updates http://bit.ly/commonsnews