Summary of international week 2 discussion on Open Educational Practice

Submitted by uehlers on Sun, 06/13/2010 - 09:57

Summary of week 2 discussion in

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3826:

Dear colleagues - thank you for the feedback you gave and the time you took to contribute to the discussions from many parts of the world. The following issues struck us a key comments from week 2:

  • Materials that are intended for open use should be developed right from the beginning with 'openness' in mind
  • In fact the whole idea of academic practice sometimes seems to be overwhelmingy concentrated on being original and creative and 'new' rather than playing creative and originally with something which already exists.
  • Giselle: teachers are confronted with further pressures, ... and are expected to think on their feet and incorporate resources, new ideas and even suggestions that students themselves may bring in, basically, 'stuff' that's new to us?
  • 'open' and 'openness'  is new! ...There's a lot to be thought, discussed and clarified regarding 'openness' and what it means to be 'open', particularly when the ideological bases of education are buried under business 'realities' as they seem to be more and more...
  • Olufemi: OER are a novelty in African countries - and administrators yet have to develp their experiences with them to see how policies around them can be shaped to support upake of OER

Thank you all for sharing your keypoints on how to ake the BIG SHIFT  happen! We will incorporate them into our work and will take them as inspiration in further discussions! Have a look at www.oer-quality.org to see what's next. Here we continue with the third and last week of our discussion. Roberto Carneiro, Professor at the Catholic University Lisbon, Portugal and former Minister of Education in Portugal will lead the topic.

Best regards, Ulf Ehlers