Presentation of Alastair Creelman for EDEN's Time for Action in Shaping HE 4.0 webinar series on 'Learning Design in the Eye of the Storm #onlinetogether' - May 10, 2021, 17:00 CEST More info: http://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/no-2-sharing-and-collaborating-our-way-out-of-the-storm/

1. Joining the OER dots
Alastair Creelman
Linnaeus University, Sweden
alastair.creelman@lnu.se
Twitter: @alacre

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3. Open education – the way forward
• Potential – access, inclusion, flexibility
• Global community of open educators
• Licenses, repositories, practice, policies, research
• Blessings from above – UNESCO, OECD, European Commission etc.

4. Sharing during pandemic
• Avalanche of resources, guides, videos
• Sharing via social networks
• Spontaneous and uncoordinated
• How do we join the dots to move up a level?

5. To be resolved …
• A long way from mainstream
• Still hard to find relevant resources
• Convenience of commercial resources
• Uneven linguistic coverage

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Those who
most need
open education
don’t know it
exists

7. Photo by Alexander Jonathan on Unsplash
Two sides of open

8. Layers of openness
Photo by K8 on Unsplash

9. Does “open” mean openly licensed content or code? And, again, which license is really
“open”? Does “open” mean “made public”? Does “open” mean
shared? Does “open” mean “accessible”? Accessible how? To whom? Does
“open” mean editable? Negotiable? Does “open” mean “free”?
Does “open” mean “open-ended”? Does “open” mean transparent? Does
“open” mean “open-minded”? “Open” to new ideas and to intellectual exchange? Open
to interpretation? Does “open” mean open to participation — by
everyone equally? Open doors? Open opportunity? Open to
suggestion? Or does it mean “open for business”?
Audrey Watters From “Open” to Justice In Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education

10. Barriers to open
Fear and
safety
Time-consumi
ng
Perceptions of
quality
Loss of
prestige
Technological
expertise
Adapted from: Veneruso, S V (2017) Reflections on generosity of spirit: barriers to working in the open,
In Open at the Margins
Political
pressure

11. From resources to practice
• Built-in reusability
• Metadata
• Curation
• Licenses
• Institutional commitment
• Open pedagogy – sharing practice rather than
resources

12. ”I thought I could organise freedom. How
Scandinavian of me.”
Björk, The hunter

13. My digital footprints ...
Blogs on learning and technology
Corridor of Uncertainty
Flexspan (news blog in Swedish)
University profile
https://lnu.se/en/staff/alastair.creelman/
Twitter
http://twitter.com/alacre
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