Description
The idea of the pilot was to work on how “open content” might be used in schools to understand what openness might mean in and for educational practice. While our initial intention was simply to run these in schools after the first workshops it became apparent while the technical and licences were open and it was relatively clear how to do the experiments, people were uncertain how to use them in their educational practice. Emphasising the need to attend to Educational Practice as well as Openness in OEP.
The pilot took a participatory design approach (Sanders and Westerlund 2011; Mor et.al 2012), to developing and support practices around the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in classroom. Through a series of workshops and schools visits we looked to solve these problems from the classroom out, using the teachers experience to develop learning journeys that worked for teachers and pupils. With teachers we created a learning journey using the OU’s free platform OpenLearnWorks to wrap the experiments in a mixture of existing and newly developed OER.
Two journeys were created, these will be run in two locations with with two sets of teachers in December 2014. The paper will report on the outcomes for pupils and teachers of this final stage. In doing so it will reflect on the participatory design process, highlighting the practices developed to support the use of open content, drawing out broader conclusions might support the use open materials in the classroom
References
Macintyre R. (2014). Uncertainty, Learning Design, and interdisciplinarity: Systems and Design Thinking in the School Classroom. In: Designs for Learning 4th International Conference, 6th -9th of May 2014, The University of Stockholm, Sweden. http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/40482[accessed 3rd of July 2014]
Mor, Y., Warbutons, S. and Winters, N., (2012). Participatory pattern workshops: a methodology for open learning design inquiry, Research in Learning Technology, 20(0), http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/19197 [accessed 8 June 2013]
Sanders, E. B. N., Westerlund, B. (2011). Experimenting, Exploring and Experimenting in and with Co-Design Spaces, Nordic Design Research Conference, http://www.maketools.com/articles-papers/SandersWesterlundNordes2011.pdf [accessed 17 June 2013]
Scanlon, E. (2012) Open educational resources in support of science learning: tools for inquiry and observation, Distance Education, 33(2), 221-236
Participants
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Andrzej Pieńkowski
joined 9 years, 6 months ago -
Virginia Power
joined 9 years, 6 months ago -
Theodore Kuechel
joined 9 years, 7 months ago -
Anna Page
joined 9 years, 7 months ago -
ALT
joined 9 years, 8 months ago