[Open-education] Is there still an OER movement?

Fri Aug 22 11:25:28 UTC 2014

 > It feels that there's is a big disconnection between innovative / 
trendy areas of open education and the coal-face work of outreach and 
implementation. I guess that's the conclusion of the article above. I'd 
be interested to know more about projects working to address this.

Yes!

This is something I've been talking about off-list - trying to engage 
teachers - or basically meet teachers in the spaces where they are 
working. See this post on why teachers aren't using OER in Germany: 
http://education.okfn.org/open-education-germany/

There is an initiative in the UK that is doing this:
http://lccdigilit.our.dmu.ac.uk/2014/05/12/understanding-open-educational-resources-information-for-schools/
The plan is to educate teachers so they can use OER more effectively. 
Bjorn who works on the project was involved with 
http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/ORBIT and 
http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OER4Schools

Marieke

This is something On 22/08/2014 10:52, Mick FM wrote:
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> On 22/08/14 09:44, Marieke Guy wrote:
>>
>> One talk I attended at OER14 was about how OER is moving away from 
>> something academia does to something that is led by practioners. The 
>> talk was called When two worlds don't collide: the marginalisation of 
>> open educational practices outside academia 
>> <http://www.medev.ac.uk/oer14/87/view/> and used the example of OERs 
>> created about autism by autism experts and doctors (not academics).  
>> Again maybe this isn't a movement, but it could make for a 
>> sustainable model.
>>
>> I suppose there is a question to be asked about whether there needs 
>> to actually be a movement as such or whether OER work is about 
>> something more practical - getting appropriate, open licensed 
>> resources to those who need them. So do we need a community of 
>> practice rather than a movement?
>
> That's a good article!
>
> It does feel like all the research does suggest that it's time for OER 
> to get real and become an embedded tool for communities of practice.
>
> So has the research end of OER movement achieved it's aims? If so, 
> it's still seems like there is a big gap between the theory and the 
> practice
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> For example, at Wednesday's session for Duct Tape Uni in the 
> evaluation at the end of the day, one of the community media trainers 
> who was very experienced, shared that one of his take-aways from the 
> session was that he was happy to have learned about OER and that there 
> were searchable repositories available. This was news to him.
>
> It feels that there's is a big disconnection between innovative / 
> trendy areas of open education and the coal-face work of outreach and 
> implementation. I guess that's the conclusion of the article above. 
> I'd be interested to know more about projects working to address this.
>
> So another question for you guys.
>
> Are edu-punk innovators who jump the OER ship to move on to new 
> territories before finishing the job helping or harming open education?
>
> nice one,
> Mick
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