Open knowledge in the Curriculum: Building competencies, attributes and literacies
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Joint paper by Lorna M. Campbell, Kay Douglas, Stephanie (Charlie) Farley and Ewan McAndrew presented at the University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference, June 2020.
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Open knowledge in the Curriculum: Building competencies, attributes and literacies
- 1. Open Knowledge in the Curriculum Building competencies, attributes and literacies Lorna M. Campbell, Kay Douglas, Stephanie (Charlie) Farley, Ewan McAndrew The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Vol.II, 1846 ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY
- 2. Overview • Strategic support for OER and Open Knowledge. • Incorporating OER in the curriculum. • Wikipedia assignments. • GeoScience Outreach OERs. • Digital Futures for Learning OER assignments. • How can you incorporate OER and Open Knowledge in your courses. ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY, https://edin.ac/3dmoX2d
- 3. University of Edinburgh Vision Our graduates, and the knowledge we discover with our partners, make the world a better place. Our teaching and research is relevant to society and we are diverse, inclusive and accessible to all. ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/snkn7o
- 4. Building core competencies and transferable attributes with open knowledge • Digital and information literacy skills • Writing as public outreach • Collaborative working • Information synthesis • Copyright literacy • Critical thinking • Source evaluation • Data science. Anima Celtica, The Evergreen Spring, 1895, ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY, Europeana / images.is.ed.ac.uk
- 5. University of Edinburgh OER Policy • http://open.ed.ac.uk/about/ • Approved by Learning and Teaching Committee in January 2016. • Informative and permissive. • Encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience. • Helps colleagues make informed decisions about creating and using OER. ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/fcwNdT
- 7. OER Service Activities • Digital skills workshops & events around OER and open education. • Provide support to Schools and Colleges. • Provide advice, guidance and training on copyright and open licensing. • Support ISG Playful Engagement Strategy. Papers of William Speirs Bruce, No.686, ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/fcwCzM
- 8. Wikipedians at the Eurostemcell Wikithon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Endoderm, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EuroStemCell_Wikithon_2016.jpg
- 13. Building core competencies and transferable attributes with open knowledge Digital and information literacy skills Writing as public outreach Collaborative working Information synthesis Copyright literacy Critical thinking Source evaluation Data science. Wikipedia as learning technology
- 14. Geoscience Outreach http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/20- 21/dpt/cxeasc10087.htm Course designed by Colin Graham and Sue Rigby "Poplar Trees leaves begin to fall-3=" by Sheba_Also 17,000,000 + views (Flickr)is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
- 15. Student works with a ‘community partner’ • Acts as a ‘consultant’ to the community client • Develops a ‘bespoke resource’ to solve a problem or need • Bespoke resource has Legacy "332 of 365: Helping Hand" by tainkeh (Flickr) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
- 16. Creating Legacy The key problem
- 17. Gamechanger discussions with Information Services, Educational Design and Engagement "On open educational resources -- Beyond definitions" (Flickr) by opensource.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
- 18. Student Resources as OERs on University of Edinburgh Open.Ed Shop
- 20. Jakob Assmann Postdoctoral Fellow in Arctic Ecology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark Photo by kind permission from Jakob Assmann
- 21. Roseanne Smith Quality and Innovation Manager Children’s University, Scotland Photo by kind permission of Roseanne Smith
- 24. gtc: Teaching Scotland magazine https://www.gtcs.org.uk/News/teaching-scotland/teaching-scotland-magazine.aspx
- 25. Isla Simmons Doctorial Candidate University of Edinburgh Photo by kind permission of Isla Simmons
- 26. Lorna Camus Doctorial Candidate Heriot-Watt University Photo by kind permission of Lorna Camus
- 27. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-prejudice-reduction-strategies-psychology-resource-11686760
- 28. Intervention Strategy for the City of Edinburgh Council Degree Stream: Education with Earth Sciences
- 29. Joanna Barrie Primary Teacher Fife Photo by kind permission of Joanna Barrie
- 30. Geoscience Outreach OERs on YouTube Studying Science at Edinburgh University: everyone is welcome by Gabriele Negro Roman About by Beth Adams
- 31. • Built core competencies • Gained transferrable attributes By developing OERs in GeoScience Outreach, they have…
- 32. Today’s Legacy
- 33. Geoscience Outreach: delivering key aspects of Edinburgh’s emerging vision for Teaching and Learning https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/at oms/files/geoscienceoutreach insightpaper.compressed.pdf
- 34. The Student ‘Experimental Department’, Centre for Research Collections, © University of Edinburgh, CC BY, Europeana / images.is.ed.ac.uk OER Assignments
- 35. Creating an OER as a graded assignment 1. Encourages students to critically evaluate the implications of educational trends 2. Provides a platform to share their learning 3. Provides an opportunity to apply their learning into a tangible re- usable resource with ongoing value & legacy 6727 – Film of a flower, Eric Lucey film archive, Library and University Collections, © University of Edinburgh, CC BY.
- 36. OER created by Digital Futures students, https://open.ed.ac.uk/tag/digital-futures/
- 37. OER Assignments on the Open Web 1. Are for an audience beyond the tutor, and authors have to take into account the needs, interests and expertise of their peers. 2. Creating genuinely open resources requires careful attention to issue such as accessibility, structure, audience, and licensing. Dr Jen Ross, Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh 6084 Kaleidoscope Experiment, Eric Lucey film archive, Library and University Collections, © University of Edinburgh, CC BY
- 38. Digital Futures for Learning: An OER assignment, http://open.ed.ac.uk/digital- futures-for-learning-an-oer-assignment/
- 39. OER created by Digital Education module learners on the PgCert in Academic Practice
- 40. Other incorporations of OER into UoE Classrooms 1. OER Assignments are also used in the Digital Education module for the Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Academic Practice at UoE. 2. OER Game Jams have been run with ECA’s PG Design Informatics students yearly since 2016 3. Second year Sociology Fundamentals students incorporated OER knowledge into their Zine assignments in 2020. Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre: Student Record Card, Centre for Research Collections, © University of Edinburgh, CC BY, Europeana / images.is.ed.ac.uk
- 41. Building core competencies and transferable attributes with open knowledge and practice • Digital and information literacy skills • Writing as public outreach • Collaborative working • Information synthesis • Copyright literacy • Critical thinking • Source evaluation • Data science • Legacy Anima Celtica, The Evergreen Spring, 1895, Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh, CC BY, Europeana / images.is.ed.ac.uk
- 42. Monograph of the Birds of Paradise, Vol.I, 1891-1898 ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY How you can incorporate OER and Open Knowledge in your courses 1. Contact the OER Service 2. Talk with us about your learning and assessment requirements 3. Work with us! We can run training with you and your students. (Wikipedia/copyright/licensing/OER)
- 43. Contact the Open Education Service open.ed@ed.ac.uk http://open.ed.ac.uk/ @OpenEdEdinburgh CC BY, University of Edinburgh, unless otherwise indicated. 'Old English Bobtailed Sheep Dog’, Roslyn Glass Slides 53665, ©University of Edinburgh, CC BY
Editor's Notes
- At the University of Edinburgh we believe that the creation of open knowledge and open educational resources are fully in keeping with our institutional vision, purpose and values, to discover knowledge and make the world a better place, while ensuring that our teaching and research is diverse, inclusive, accessible to all and relevant to society. This commitment to open knowledge is more important now than ever, in the midst of a global pandemic that has disrupted education for millions of learners around the world. Indeed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, UNESCO has issued a Call for Joint Action to support learning and knowledge sharing through Open Educational Resources (OER) with a view to building more inclusive, sustainable and resilient Knowledge Societies.
- We also believe that co-creating open knowledge and open educational resources through curriculum assignments can play a valuable role in developing core disciplinary competencies and transferable attributes, including digital and information literacy skills, writing as public outreach, collaborative working, information synthesis, copyright literacy, critical thinking, source evaluation and data science.
- To support the creation of open knowledge the University has an Open Educational Resources Policy….
- We also have a central OER Service based in Information Services which supports staff and students to engage with open knowledge and provides a showcase of open educational resources created by colleagues around the University.
- The OER Services runs a wide range of…
- We’re also very fortunate to have a Wikimedian in Residence here at the University…..
- I’m Kay Douglas, part of the Geoscience Outreach teaching team. A course that was originally developed by Sue Rigby and Colin Graham.
- In this course… They wanted the student to work with a community partner, but not as a student placement They wanted the student to act as a consultant to develop a bespoke resource for the client. A bespoke resource that would solve a problem or fulfil a need. The bespoke resource needed to have legacy
- This legacy was a difficult aspect. Yes the client was encouraged to re-use the resource. Yes the client was encouraged to share the resource. But the resource legacy was very local and was very time limited.
- About 4 years ago, we had an enlightening conversation with Education, Design and Engagement. We realized that the bespoke resource could be developed into an Open Educational Resource, or OER and uploaded onto the web. (And as you can imagine, these Openly available resources have been really important in supporting eg the current blended learning – teaching only)
- And this is where they are uploaded So I’m going to briefly whizz you through 5 of the bespoke resources that are uploaded onto open.ed
- I’ve picked this one as it was the 1st uploaded Jakob’s client was a school in a specialist educational setting, primary age children
- And here is Jakob, now a postdoc fellow in Denmark
- Here is another of our former students. Roseanne is now the Quality and Innovation Manager at the Children’s University, Scotland.
- And this is Roseanne’s resource It was uploaded shortly after Jakob’s It’s a resource for secondary schools, but the interesting thing is Roseanne taught it to 14 year old pupils both in science and geography. It was our first try at a project that crossed subject boundaries
- And that is why, I’ve brought Isla’s resource on Volcanic Eruptions to your attention. This resource is Interdisciplinary, with Isla using sciences, social subjects, technologies, literacy and expressive arts to solve a problem she set them
- And she wrote an article for the General Teaching Council magazine “Teaching Scotland”, published last month, This has been part of a mini theme of IDL, Interdisciplinary Learning.
- And here’s Isla She’s just on the final write up of her PhD.
- This is Lorna, the co-author of the 4th resource I want to briefly mention. Lorna is also a doctorial candidate. I wanted to show you Lorna;s bespoke resource which she developed for Craigroyston Community High school here in North Edinburgh
- It doesn’t look particulary different from the othe resources. But Lorna is a psychology graduate. Although we are Geoscience Outreach, we teach psychology students too.
- Last resource to show you is this one. My job for next week to upload onto open.ed This is one of 5 resources this year that were developed for the CEC. They are aimed at improving attendance in school for a specific cohort of pupils. Hence it is one of the Council’s intervention strategies.
- Here’s Joanna. Hopefully starting some face to face teaching in August in a primary school in Fife.
- Our student Oers can also be found on youtube. That’s Gabriele in a cameo appearance on his WP video. And Beth an archaeology student has continued to add to her original collection Roman About.
- So basically, what have our former students achieved by developing OERs? Core competancies and gained transferrable skills. And if you remember, we started developing OERs because we had a problem with project legacy.
- Well, here’s a snapshot of ….
- And if you want more detailed info on Geoscience Outreach, here’s the URL. Thanks
- Digital Futures for Learning, part of the MSc in Digital Education, includes an OER creation assignment that encourages students to critically evaluate the implications of educational trends, providing a platform to share their learning, and an opportunity to create re-usable resources with ongoing, tangible value.
- We also believe that co-creating open knowledge and open educational resources through curriculum assignments can play a valuable role in developing core disciplinary competencies and transferable attributes, including digital and information literacy skills, writing as public outreach, collaborative working, information synthesis, copyright literacy, critical thinking, source evaluation and data science.