[Open-education] Out now! OEPS project release Becoming an Open Educator course

Fri Sep 16 08:36:21 UTC 2016

Hi everyone

Please see below for an announcement from the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project regarding their new open online badged course Becoming an Open Educator.

Thanks and have a great weekend!
Beck Pitt

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The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS)<https://oepscotland.org/> project is delighted to announce that its open badged online course Becoming an Open Educator<http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/course/view.php?id=2274> is now live on OpenLearn Works<http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/>! Focussing on how free and open might change your approach to teaching and learning, the course is aimed at educators, facilitators and administrators across all sectors. The OEPS team collaboratively developed the course and the lead author was Beck Pitt<http://www.open.ac.uk/people/rep237>. An earlier version of the course was openly peer reviewed.<https://oepscotland.org/2015/11/05/an-invitation-to-feedback-community-review-our-course-on-open-practice/>
During Becoming an Open Educator<http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/course/view.php?id=2274> you will discover how to find open resources and their benefits and consider whether they change the relationship to the content you create. You'll also reflect on your own practice and what 'open' might mean for your own context. Who might use any open educational resources you create and what do you need to consider to ensure your resource is visible and re-useable?
The course also explains how 'open' licences work in supporting open sharing and reuse and is full of lots of best practice examples of open practice and suggestions. The course includes a series of quizzes which count towards a digital badge. If you read through all the material in the course you will receive a Statement of Participation.
Head over and check out the course!<http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/becoming-open-educator> If you like what you see then please don't forget to tell your colleagues and spread the word.
If you are interested in exploring different ways you could reuse the course content with your peers, colleagues or/and students, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us. We would also welcome any thoughts, comments and suggestions you have and would love to hear from you if the course has made a difference to your practice. Drop us a line (oepscotland [at] gmail.com<mailto:oepscotland at gmail.com>) or tweet us<https://twitter.com/OEPScotland> and use the hashtag #openeducator when tweeting about the course.

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